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St Lucia Zouk’s Falter At The Final Stage After Best Ever Tournament Performance!

With the experienced Darren Sammy as Captain, the St Lucia Zouks’ 2020 Caribbean Premier League Season performance was the best ever in the franchise’s history. Despite Sammy’s personal non-performance with both bat and ball, the Zouks nonetheless won seven of their twelve matches played to emerge as the losing finalists and runners-up to the eventual …

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Guyana Amazon Warriors Yet Again Flatter To Deceive With CPL 2020 Semi- Final Exit.

Billed as one of the pre-tournament favorites, the Guyana Amazon Warriors proved themselves to be anything but. The Amazon Warriors made a most inglorious CPL 2020 Tournament exit, losing by 10 wickets to the Zouks after having been embarrassingly dismissed for just 55 off 13.4 overs in their crucial semi-final encounter to determine the second …

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Tallawahs Reach Semi-Finals With Much Improved 2020 CPL Performance!

After their disappointing 2019 Season, during which they failed to qualify for the playoffs and were in the lower half of the final Tournament standings, the Jamaica Tallawahs would have been justifiably pleased with their much improved CPL 2020 performance. The Tallawahs finished fourth in the Tournament standings with an overall record of three wins …

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Defending 2019 Champions Barbados Tridents Fails To Make 2020 Season Playoffs!

With just three wins from its seven matches played and with an inferior run-rate to that of the Jamaica Tallawah’s, the 2019 CPL defending champions the Barbados Tridents, failed to advance beyond the Preliminary Round at this year’s 2020 Tournament. The Tridents finished the Tournament in 5th place, just above the cellar dwelling St Kitts …

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St Kitts Patriots Endure Miserable CPL 2020 With Table Bottom Finish!

Not surprisingly the St Kitts Patriots dismal results record of just one win in ten matches played earned the franchise the distinction of finishing at the very bottom of this year’s Tournament standings. The good news for the Patriots would be that hopefully it now can’t possibly get any worse and that next’ year’s Tournament …

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Lara XI Wins Inaugural Canada Softball Bash

YADRAM Bogh’s Lara XI carted off the inaugural Canada Softball Bash 10/10 tournament which ended at the Greenbriar ground, Brampton Ontario on Sunday, September 20. Lara XI proved their superiority, playing unbeaten in the preliminary round the previous day. They survived a last ball thriller with Toronto Softball Cricket Club (TSCC) in their semi-final encounter …

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WAN,WAN DUTTY BUILD DAM!

Wan. Wan Dutty Build Dam, “ is an old Guyanese creolese proverb or colloquialism so to speak. Translated into “proper” English it simply means that sustained efforts over any meaningful period of time will eventually yield significant results. In other words when you do the small things systematically, such as planting individual tree shrubs, you …

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CONTENTS

4. Publisher’s Message! 6. Jeremy Gordon Canada’s Mr. Lightening! 9. Mohammed Shaikh: Toronto & District’s Longstanding President! 12. Hiba Shamshad: One to Watch! 14. Coach’s Corner: identifying And Nurturing Talented Players! 16. DoorKnockers: Ayush Verma & Joshua DaSilva 18. Roland Butcher from Barbados To England And Back! 22. Reds Perrera’s Memorable Matches 24. CPL 2020 …

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CANADIAN FAST BOWLER JEREMY GORDON DRAWS INSPIRATION FROM IAN BISHOP!

By Frederick Halley INSPIRING words from former West Indies fast bowler and renowned commentator Ian Bishop have had a profound effect on former Guyana fast bowler Jeremy Gordon, who at 33, has no intention of “throwing in the towel” any time soon. During last year’s International Cricket Council (ICC) T20 World Cup Qualifiers, played in …

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Jeremy Gordon: UpClose Take 20!

1. CITY OF BIRTH? New Amsterdam, Berbice, Guyana 2.FAVORITE CHILDHOOD CRICKET MEMORY? Traveling to Trinidad to play for Guyana under 15 (My first travel outside the country to represent my country of birth) 3. CHILDHOOD AMBITION? To play cricket for the West Indies 4. FAVORITE SCHOOL SUBJECT? Math 5. FAVORITE BOOK? Stolen Legacy by George …

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