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Pieces missing to the jig saw puzzle
Reginald St. H ShillingfordDec. 26, 2015Among the sayings in sport is one which loudly proclaims: "there is no substitute for skill". This is a consideration very largely affecting the current West Indies team at year's ...
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Early but shocking Christmas gift for Australia
Reginald St. H ShillingfordDec. 18, 2015The West Indies, from all appearances, has presented Australia with the generosity of an early Christmas package. It isn't that anyone in his right senses could have expected – at ...
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Let there be light
Reginald St. H ShillingfordDec. 10, 2015Australia versus New Zealand third Test match at Adelaide, which went on for three days starting on 26th November, 2015, has gone into history as the first ever day-night Test. ...
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Weekes' record stays intact
Reginald St. H ShillingfordNov. 24, 2015When Australia's David Warner smashed three consecutive centuries in the first two Tests against New Zealand in the series now going on Down Under it looked as if Sir Everton ...
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Remodeling the West Indies
Reginald St. H ShillingfordNov. 22, 2015The recent interview on television with Honorable Dr. Keith Mitchell, Prime Minister of Grenada, declaring the absolute need to remodel the West Indies Cricket Board made interesting listening. It was ...
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A bare sense of scale
Reginald St. H ShillingfordNov. 12, 2015Needing a win to share the series at Colombo, West Indies failed to top 200 in both its innings, losing the second Test match by 72 runs. After bowling out ...
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Overcoming the feeling of hopelessness
Reginald St. H ShillingfordNov. 4, 2015A feeling of hopelessness sits, apparently on West Indies cricket and not much seems contemplated in respect of tackling whatever problems besetting the situation. At latest count our players are ...
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Further unravelling by FIFA
Reginald St. H ShillingfordOct. 21, 2015Latest action taken by the FIFA Ethics Committee is the placement of a ban on the beleaguered president of the world football governing body Sepp Blatter. He has been given ...
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Crowd pressure
Reginald St. H ShillingfordOct. 15, 2015Generally, the biggest crowds are these days expected in India for international cricket matches. It is not unusual to have as many as forty or fifty thousand turning up for ...
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Times of disaster
Reginald St. H ShillingfordOct. 7, 2015LOOKING back during my lifetime, the great Hurricane David of 29th August, 1979, was the only real storm of such magnitude to strike Dominica since the previous one in the ...
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Getting down to brass tacks
Reginald St. H ShillingfordOct. 2, 2015A visit to Windsor Park on Tuesday afforded a small glimpse of preparations in progress by the Windward Islands team for this year's regional cricket tournaments. The oppressiveness of the ...
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Will Jason find his golden fleece
Reginald St. H ShillingfordSept. 28, 2015West Indies have laid a near wholesale investment on youth by its recent appointment of Jason Holder as captain of the Test cricket team. Holder's elevation follows his installation to ...
