Topic: Chris Gayle

Imagine Kevin Pietersen, Sachin Tendulkar, Chris Gayle, Jacques Kallis and Shahid Afridi batting for the same team. Their captain could relax, but not the bowlers in the opposition.Pietersen's improvisation, Tendulkar's strokeplay, Gayle's power-hitting, Kallis's conventional but highly effective approach and Afridi's unorthodox ...

Egos to the left of him, record-setters to the right: Darren Sammy, unheralded captain of the West Indies, faces mission impossible at the World Cup.In a squad which features four former captains, three of whom can boast over 20,000 ODI runs between ...

Upul Tharanga cracked an unbeaten 101 to steer Sri Lanka to an emphatic eight-wicket victory over the West Indies in the second one-day international on Thursday.The left-handed opener hit seven fours in his ninth one-day century as Sri Lanka achieved a rain-revised ...

When the West Indies captured the first two World Cups of 1975 and 1979, they won nine out of nine matches in two tournaments which lasted just three weeks each.Fast forward 32 years, the World Cup now stretches over an exhausting six ...

Veteran batsman and former skipper Ramnaresh Sarwan was recalled by the West Indies for the World Cup on Wednesday.The 30-year-old was dropped from the tour of Sri Lanka last year and hasn't played for the national team since the home series against ...

West Indies captain Darren Sammy said Darren Bravo's highly impressive performances were chief among a number of plus points his team could take from the drawn Test series against Sri Lanka.The three-match series ended 0-0 on Sunday following rain-hit Tests in Galle, ...

Darren Bravo hit an impressive 63 not out for his third half-century to boost the West Indies in the third and final Test against Sri Lanka on Wednesday.Bravo, who made 58 and 80 in the first two Tests, cracked nine fours in ...

Part-time spinner Tillakaratne Dilshan bagged two wickets in one over in fading light to boost Sri Lanka's hopes of gaining the lead in the second Test against the West Indies on Thursday.The off-spinner dismissed well-set Darren Bravo (80) and Brendan Nash (29) ...

Kemar Roach finished with a five-wicket haul as Sri Lanka posted 387-9 declared in their first innings on the third day of the second Test against the West Indies on Thursday.The fast bowler took 5-100 for his second haul of five or ...

The West Indies and South Africa faced off in a match that was of academic value in terms of the series result. South Africa had an unassailable 4-0 lead in the five-match series, while the hosts failed to win any of the ...