Durban, South Africa:
Despite Marlon Samuels' second test hundred and a defiant half century by stand-in captain Dwayne Bravo West Indies were still easily defeated by an innnings and 100 runs by South Africa in the third and final test at Durban in South Africa.
The win assured South Africa of a 2-1 series win over the Caribbean Men and they get to keep the Sir Vivian Richards trophy.

South Africa fought back well on the fourth day of the second test of three to level the series 1-1 against the West Indies on Saturday Morning, January 5, 2008, local time (JA time) winning by seven wickets in South Africa.

West Indies, battled to 243 on a slow pitch and an even slower outfield, with
Shivnarine Chanderpaul scoring an unbeaten 65, Marlon Samuels 51, and Chris Gayle 46.

*Taylor, Powell, Edwards blow away Proteas

Port Elizabeth, South Africa:
West Indies won their first Test match overseas against a top-ranked Test team in seven years when they defeated hosts South Africa by 128 runs on the fourth day at St George’s Park, Port Elizabeth in South Africa on Sunday, December 30, 2007.

Jamaica helped via steady batting from Shawn Findlay (64), and Danza Hyatt (41) and a terrific bowling performance by Australian-born Brendon Nash (4-20) easily defeated a depleted Guyana team by seven wickets in a semi-final encounter of the WICB KFC Regional one-day International at Three Ws Oval in Barbados on Thursday, October 25, 2007.

BENONI, South Africa:
West Indies All-rounder Marlon Samuels shone with the bat hitting a quick fire 63 off just 30 balls to lead the West Indies to a six-wicket victory over Kenya in a warm-up game for the ICC Twenty/20 World Cup Cricket tournament now on in South Africa.
Shivnarine Chanderpaul supported with 46 (33 balls), while, opener Devon Smith chipped in with 28 (23 balls).

BASSETERRE, St Kitts:
Second placed nation Jamaica are in a fight for first innnings points in the
their final round TLC-sponsored West Indies Regional U-19 Cricket League match against the Windward Islands, in BASSETERRE, St Kitts, on Thursday, August 9, 2007.
Jamaica were bowled out for 209 runs, with openers Christie Jones and Horace Miller scoring an even 50, against the fine spin bowling from Dalton Polius who wrecked the Jamaica batting with a haul of 8-96.

Trent Bridge, England:
West Indies won the NatWest One-Day International series against England 2-1, on the back of a 93-run victory in the third and final match at Trent Bridge, England, on Saturday, July 7, 2007.
West Indies won the toss and batted first and made a challenging 289-5 from their allocation of 50 overs, this was despite their most consistent batsman, Shivnarine Chanderpaul going early for 33, with the score on 93-2. However, the Windies were able to recover, as captain and opening batsman Chris Gayle joint top scored with 82 runs from 126 balls, Runako Morton also made 82 not out, but from only 89 balls , while Dwayne Bravo slaughtered the host team's bowling in the latter overs with 42 runs from a mere 24 balls.

England tied their two-match NatWest International 20/20 series against the West Indies at 1-1, with a nail-biting five-wicket win at the Brit Oval, in England on Friday, June 29, 2007.
The Windies won the first contest by 15 runs.
A five-wicket win, seemed easy but England's winning runs, came with only three balls to spare in the game.

The West Indies led by half centuries by Devon Smith and Marlon Samuels defeated England for the first time on tour this year, by 15 runs in a NatWest International 20/20 Cricket match at the Brit Oval in England on Thursday, June 28.
The West Indies batted first and posted a challenging 208-8 off 20 overs, and England in reply came close but they ran out of balls, making 193-7 off 20 overs.

Riverside; England
West indies inconsistency continued yesterday, Tuesday, June 19, 2007 on the final day of the fourth and final test match against England at Riverside.
The match was heading for a certain draw, with the Windies looking comfortable at 162-4 but, a dramatic middle order collapse saw the Caribbean men crumbling for 222 all out, leaving England needing only 110 runs to win in the final session.

West Indies went into the last day of the fourth and final test against England on 83-3 still 30 runs behind, England's first innings score of 400. Any slip by the Caribbean men and the Englishmen will go in for the kill. The highlight of the fourth day's play was England all-rounder Paul Collingwood knock of 128, while Matthew Prior made a defiant 62.

Veteran batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul made an impressive 136 not out to pilot West Indies to 287 all out, and on top on the third day of the fourth and final test match against England, at Riverside, yesterday, June 17, 2007.
Dwayne Bravo was the next best Windies batsman with 44, while Chris Gayle made 28, and Marlon Samuels on his return chipped in with 19.
Seamer Ryan Sidebottom took 5-88 for England.
England at the close were struggling on121-4 with Andrew Straus unbeaten on 72.
Fidel Edwards was the West Indies leading wicket taker with 3-40 off seven overs.
England has an unassailable 2-0 lead.

Kingston, Jamaica:
Nineteen Ninty six (1996) Cricket World cup champions Sri Lanka stormed in their third ICC Cricket World Cup final with a 81-run victory over five time semi-finalists New Zealand in a semi-final clash at the historial Sabina Park in Kington, Jamaica on Tuesday April 24, 2007.
Captain Mahela Jayawardene 115 not out, and Upul Tharanga 73, helped Sri Lanka to a challenging 289-5 after their alloted 50 overs. James Franklin 2-46 had the best Kiwi bowling figures.

Coach of the West Indies Cricket team Bennett King has resigned his post has head coach of the regional cricket team on the back of an early exit by the Caribbean cricketers at this year's ICC Cricket World Cup, the first to be hosted in the Caribbean.
The West Indies were expected to at least make the semi-finals, but finished unofficially sixth overall, after coming to the Super 8s stage with three consecutive wins. But lost five of six games in the Super 8 stage, forcing journalists, administrators and Caribbean fans demanding that heads should roll.

*England beat Caribbean men with one ball to spare

Hosts the West Indies and Captain Brian Lara ended their ICC Cricket World Cup campaign on a losing note, going down to England by one wicket at the Kensington Oval in Barbados on Saturday April 21, 2007.

Alot of questions is being asked about the invincibility of the Australian team, after they battered semi-finalists New Zealand by 215 runs, their worst defeat in a one-day International, in both nations final Super 8 match, on Friday April 20, 2007 in Grenada.

This was Australia's 27th straight Cricket World Cup win.

World record holder for both test (400 not out) and first class cricket (501 not out), Brian Charles Lara, yesterday announced his retirement from International Cricket, after his side's match against Bangladesh, in Barbados, April 19, 2007.
The West Indies final super 8 match against England will be Lara's last in the Caribbean team's colours.

Finally!
Windies win first Super 8 match
On a very eventful and emotional day of cricket the West Indies won their first ICC Cricket World Cup Super 8 match in Barbados on Thursday April 18, 2007.
After four straight defeats, the Windies playing in a match of only academic interest defeated Bangladesh by 99 runs, on the heels of Ramnaresh Sarwan's 91 and Shivnarine Chanderpaul's 50, while Bryan Lara in his last international game for the West Indies chipped in with 33, and Marlon Samuels back from a short absence tallied 31, as the Windies closed on 230-5 off 50 overs.

*Lankans gave cricket minnows no mercy

Sri Lanka warming up for their semi-final clash with New Zealand next week whipped new comer Ireland by eight wickets in Grenada on Wednesday April 18, 2007.

South Africa crushed England by nine wickets to take the fourth and final semi-final spot in a Super 8 ICC Cricket World Cup match in Barbados on Tuesday April 17, 2007.

The win saw England's hopes of a semi-final berth dashed and their final game against the Windies only a contest of academics.

*Sri Lanka's depleted bowling attack was no match for Aussie batters
World Champions Australia chalked up their eight consecutive win of the 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup after a convincing seven-wicket victory over Sri Lanka yesterday, April 16, 2007 in Grenada.

*South Africa in a must-win situation against England

New Zealand bounced back from a battering from Sri Lanka in their last outing, to beat South Africa by five wickets in a key ICC World Cup Super 8 match in Grenada on Saturday April 14, 2007.

*Australia whip minnows Ireland by nine wickets

Australia were in a ruthless mood against minnows Ireland on Friday, April 13, after whipping the Irish team by nine wickets in a ICC Cricket World Cup Super eight game in Barbados.

Australia won the toss and decided to field.

The Aussie bowlers justified their captain's decision to field first by making early in roads on the brittle Irish batting, as the minnows crashed to 91 all out, in 30 overs. Only three batters, John Mooney (23), Trent Johnston (17), and Kevin O'Brien (16) made double digit scores.

Australia's veteran seamer Glen McGrath had the best bowling figures with 3-17, while speedster Shaun Tait snatched 3-39.

Fingers are being pointing everywhere as Organizers, Caribbean Governments, Advertisers and stakeholders of the ICC Cricket World Cup are trying to see who to blame for the under performing tournament that is currently taking place in the West Indies.
Added to the fire is the early exit of the West Indies team, that still has two group matches to go, but are without a realistic chance to make it into the World Cup Cricket semi-finals set for St Lucia and Jamaica on April 24.

*Haiti gets for first World Youth Cup berth

Defending U-17 World Youth Football Champions Mexico had a surprise exit from the tournament in the qualification stage after playing to a 0-0 draw with Honduras in a CONCACAF group A match in Hondoras on Sunday.

England revived their semi-final hopes in the ICC Cricket World Cup with a nervous four-wicket win over Bangladesh in a Super 8 game in Barbados yesterday (April 11, 2007).

The Bangladeshis were skittle out for a meager 143 runs off 37.2 overs, and the odds firmly against them upsetting a third top ranked team.

Only, Saqibul Hasan who made 57 offered any real resistance to the bowling of Monty Panesar 3-25 and Sajid Mahmood 3-27.

Hosts the West Indies saw their semi-final chances in the ICC Cricket World Cup all but ended after they crashed to a 67-run defeat to South Africa in a Super Eight match in Grenada yesterday, April 10, 2007.

Windies won the toss and decided to field, and may rue this decision as the the Proteas batsmen plundered the Windies bowling attack-aided by poor deliveries by Windies bolwers-as most times they were guilty of bowling too short or down the wrong line.

World champions Australia looked in ominous form after easily defeating rivals England by seven wickets in an ICC Cricket World Cup Super Eights match in Antigua on Sunday, April 8, 2007.
England who made a moderate 247 all out, at their time at bat, looked short by at least 50 runs against an Aussie side that scores over 300 runs regularly.
South African born, Kevin Pietersen, led the Englishmen batting with 104, and Ian Bell smashed 77 off 90 balls, but apart from these two, only Ravi Bopara 21, made it into doubles figures.

*Asian team spank South Africa by 67 runs
Bangladesh continued their giant killing act in the ICC Cricket World Cup when they disposed of World cricket's number one nation South Africa by 67 runs in a Super 8 match in Guyana on Saturday, April 7, 2007.

Kingston, Jamaica:

Skipper of the bewildered West Indies Cricket team Brian Lara has come under much crititism from commentators of the ICC Cricket World Cup and local cricket fans around the Caribbean for questionable leadership.

Mathematically, there is a slim chance of the windies making it to the next phase, but on performance of the Caribbean Side in three ICC Cricket World Cup (CWC) Super 8 games, which they all lost comprehensively, it is a matter of playing for pride.

If the West Indies cricketers still hugging their two points, carry- over from the first round, do not lift their game then they will bow out of the tournament without winning a game.

They have, World number one, South Africa next Tuesday, and Bangladesh in their penultimate game and play England last.

Hosts the West Indies went down to another heavy defeat in their second ICC Cricket World Cup Super eight match against fancied New Zealand yesterday (March 29, 2007) in Antigua.
The Kiwis thrashed the Caribbean side by seven wickets, in another embarassing display from the World Cup hosts cricketers.

The West Indies weren't picked to win this match but it was expected that they gave a good account of themselves, but the Caribbean side batting first with a extra batsman in their line up could only score a lousy 177 all out off 44.4 overs.
Only the hard hitting opener Chris Gayle who made 44, and Brian Lara 37 offered any real resistance.

Australia yesterday (Wednesday March 28, 2007) showed why they are World Champions by routing hosts the West Indies for 219 runs and won their ICC Cricket World Cup Super 8 match which they was forced into a reserved day by 103 runs at the Sir Vivian Richards Grounds in Antigua.

Hosts the West Indies will take on Champions Australia in a big ICC Cricket World Cup Super eight clash in Antigua tomorrow morning, March 27, 2007.

Both teams carry two points into the Super 8s, but winning this clash will aid these two nations in advancing to the semi-finals scheduled for Jamaica and St Lucia on April 24.

The West Indies beat Australia last year, in the group stages of the ICC throphy in Asia the second most important tournament in World Cricket, though Australia defeated the Caribbean side comprehensively in the final.

Asian team Bangladesh secured the eight and final spot for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 Super Eight stage with a seven-wicket victory against Minnows Bermuda in their final Group B preliminary round match in Trinidad.

The result meant that Asian Power house India crashed out of the tournament in the group stages along with Pakistan.