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Good morning and babud and good morning to the entire universe this is day four of the Cricket West indes for the championship and we’re live from coolage cricket ground the home of Cricket West indes it’s a day in which the umpires are walking out and the standby umire

Bernard Joseph along with one of the ground officials here at the coolage cook ground is just going through the final processes of the 10 minutes rolling period it is a lovely day in the West Indies Academy they close day three on 161 for7 still requiring 268 runs I

Say good morning to my colleague Leon manard good morning sir good morning Veron good morning to the entire Caribbean yes uh tough ask for the West Indies Academy 268 runs they have the entire day to do so but wickets in hand is uh it’s the main issue Tucket out there though tuck it

Really really impressed yesterday after a lackluster first Innings performance he really come to the party day three was the Kevin Sinclair show and Kevin Sinclair has now more or less motivated the defending Champions the gyana hary Eagles and you could see a more spirited Ghana happy Eagles

Yesterday even one of the highlights I think I would remember would have been two catches one by Savory and the other one would have been a beautiful catch to dismiss Teddy Bishop by Tade shandera in leg slip and there was just an exuberance just some obs obervations in

Terms of what I would have seen even when Thor was bowling I didn’t see teevin imla really go up and have a conversation with him as to ask him you know what do you want you know sometimes it’s good as a young player Thor is a

Young man got some good Pace but he just sometimes just need that guidance and I didn’t see that coming out from the Ghana happy Eagles Captain Tevin imla but we’re ready to go what’s your expectations what you think will be happening this morning well I think the happy Eagles are going to

Come out this morning and go hard at the West Indies Academy they won’t want this to last too long this resistance that has been put up by Tucket and uh we saw a a good ending from Jordan Johnson yesterday would have been unfortunate to be dismissed like before to St CLA with

This a delivery that look like it was just going down leg uh so Johnson would be disappointed uh uh would be a bit upset about that but it’s uh looking like it’s going to be isaah Thor to start us off this morning from that CIU Ruden which he bowled so well from

Yesterday so aggressive and direct to the short balls and when he did pitch the ball up got a bit of movement hit some good areas so the guy on the team let’s see what the plan will be for this morning’s play is it two slips trying to figure out straight away

We know for sure that the fin leg is in position imla looking around he let’s see what’s scut man Perez is Under The Helmet so we know for sure in fact he’s Anderson is having a chat with him as well too so they’re looking like they

Want to bring shander Paul over onto the offside and this imla maybe with Pace with ta’s Pace mid on Mid off mid off pretty close short man under the bat Shanda Paul goes to cover so they starting with two slips of Gully Sly at at at Gully backward point and to will bow

The first delivery of the fourth morning whipped away nicely and straight away Ash Ned is Off the Mark good shot there from NED just using that piece getting in line off the ball and just working it down to the Fielder down at F leg Matthew nandu can’t help but talk about the

Leadership L of missing someone like a Leon Johnson was really a Pioneer for West indes cricket and Ghana Cricket played some nine test matches really didn’t kick on in his test career we’ll break as we get back to that tuck it straight as anarrow just punched it up to vasami

Pomal six ODI for the West Indies total of 127 first class matches 6,741 runs 189 being his high score seven centuries and 42 half centuries and when you look at those stats you say he’s a much better player in the respect he should have maybe scored a lot more hundreds really but

Really one of the top leaders in the cariban tuck it driv in a full toss low full toss for four comp passive Tage shander Paul and into the boundary now hits the Rope for four stayed low on it yeah simple shot there for Tucket that’s all timing full toss from

Thor now gets his first boundary of the morning tuck it really looked good yesterday and he want to get some runs to his name to show a bit of resist for the academy one for the future he’s back and slapping this down to the backward Point

Fielder I think it’s not too long before we see a short ball from Thor that caused a lot of problems for a lot of these Academy batters yesterday would have hit MK Joseph in the helmet would have uh gotten Joshua Bishop caught deep backward Square with that short

Ball col Bo Tucket a natural athlete L started at the charone secondary school as one of the top young sprinters in the island of nevas which have produced some six test players um both in the 100 meters 200 meters very very very young promising athlete in an early age um followed in

The the footsteps of his mother who is really a a cricket fanatic and his dad would have played for the West Indies in ODI and is now an official first class umpire still yet to get up the ranks he’s not been Fast Track Carl tocket worked away and getting an easy

Single so good Cricket here by car and Bo Tucket wear in the number 10 but his glove workers come on in Leaps and Bounds and had it not been for Co they might have played a lot more matches when they under 19 World Cup was held in the Caribbean in

2022 but it’s somebody who is really moving through the ranks quietly parents have made some huge investment along with people like Elvis Howard and Company went to India for a camp has been around and they continue to dream for the young man and he’s almost on the

Verge based on his glove work we’ve seen some he’s really just gone to leaps and bongs despite the competition first he would have had lonardo Julian then he would have had Rivaldo Clark but he’s he’s is taking the mankle whenever he’s given his opportunity sometimes he might

Have been in a system of Academy where you have to share but he’s he’s really been the talking point of the cariban at the the me time it’s going to be Ali Muhammad to start us off from the media center Center end not seeing Ali Mohammed pitch up a ball

Yesterday he was you know aggressive sort of mood was uh really trying to execute his short balls and His Four over spell yesterday got the wicked of MBK Joseph with that wonderful catch that Kimo sa took think he will continue the same way Leon don’t think he’s going to change

The field that he has here it’s a deep backward square and a fine leg Ducket is stylishly backing across and punching it up to matu nandu score in the meantime goes to 167 for7 41 overs bold by the gy hary Eagles and when you have spin in your Armory you certainly will

Get the overs in again we see tavin imla at second slip or wide third slip it’s really not in the first slip position and I would really love Le to have a conversation to try and understand the method to the madness and I know somebody’s going to tell me well you

Know is a new time but traditionally if you understand cricket cricket is older than all of us you’ve always been told especially when I was a coach you at first slep or you’re not at first slep yeah there pretty much no slip in place with uh Kevin Anderson being as you said

Around second slip and uh yeah I’m not really sure what’s the idea behind it I’ve had a talk Leon and they’ve always told me oh we got a good keeper and I’m saying you’re taking a big risk you’re taking a big risk and it has happened before everybody’s tries it

You can try to compensate bit stra from Ali Mohammad this time hary Eagles would want to get this game done and dusted with in this session maybe want to go to Pigeon Point or one of the beaches here in antig Babu and get a good soak maybe even move around and see the

Island tonight is a a big night in the English Harbor area lots of spots in antig Baro where you can enjoy yourself nicely played to tuck it down to Mid no randu talking about fast tracking of of umpires you know we we always tend to want to encourage players to become

Officials and get into umpiring but sometimes it could be the motivator Factor if you maybe not moving driven again down the ground so made no here by Ronaldo Ali Muhammad more just jle medium but he done his job it’s Boulder made over West indes Academy lost wickets at

11 16 21 22 27 6 67 125 and 159 and it was Tor the Tormentor who really unsettled the batsman in the West Indies Academy I really like the way that he approached it uh yesterday afternoon they would have declared just before T and to pick up three wickets before as

Well as to retire M K Joseph think it uh took a special effort from Thor one of the did three Wicket as well to be getting the kind of pace that he did though that this Wicket has shown that there’s not really much uh not not really any demon in it

Really somebody woke up T yesterday um and maybe through the little WhatsApp messages they may might have been trying to tell Thor man we’re going to beat you today and th said okay well let me send this message very early o’ he Liv for the challenge as Isaiah Thorn he

Does as he runs in to ball from the CI Road and to ashid Ned and Ned gets off strike doing the right thing as ashid Ned just giving Tucket the majority of the strike getting that single early on in the over seems to be a good plan put

In place from the West indes Academy I think in T’s development I would like to hope that there would someone would work on getting him a a stint in England maybe you know there were days when you had players who would go to the MCC or even not England if you

Gets an opportunity to go to South Africa I think we have to start branching out to get our young cricketers out into different Avenues away from the Caribbean for 6 months so they they can understand the culture understand the method what it’s going to be like to be a professional

Cricketer the work that you have to put in I think you see a lot of fast Bowers especially good and for some time and come back a much better player see um but if you want to learn your Cricket Le that’s the place where you have to go I

Think aari Joseph would have had some stin in gun with uh in county cricket and since aar’s come back he’s been so much better as a test bowler always knew that he had the white ball ability but his test match cricket his red ball Cricket has improved so much you know

Kim maruch obviously spent a lot of time in England as well with Siri shanon Gabriel would have played in England for some time as well well if we if we follow back From and me I can talk from the lewood island you’d have had someone like am Roberts and the Roberts and surviv who went to Al Goa and then if you you look around the pattern you seen those days you would have had clyve Lloyd The Desmond Haynes the Gordon grinage the

Larry Gomes the Malcolm Marshall the Joel Garners and it at one point in time we had close to like 25 cricketers Bernard Julian and Company who would have played in England and but what automatically happened Leon is that when the England cricket board closed that door um we

Really didn’t respond um to figure out how we were going to get our players into another system um we had players who went to Australia the vivs and the company would have played in Australia played in England but we really didn’t respond after they Clos that door in

England it’s still even a challenge to get players even to go to England and to play in you know the real quality Cricket that you really want to play you have to the requirements is that you have to play maybe sometimes five first class games and that sometimes could

Become a challenge you know and he just keeps moving all the time so thinking that we could look into new avenues new areas you know look to get players to New Zealand a couple of our young players to South Africa to a to to Australia and it doesn’t have to

Be it could be first grade Cricket in Australia there are so many cricketers from Barbados who who were playing in Australia um you know thanks to R and buto would have set that up made not no in fact one run came off the the first delivery over completed 168 for

7 Jordan Johnson top scoring 54 of 77 deliveries Carin B Tucket 39 from 78 Thorn three for 39 from his 10 Ashman Ned will be strike to Ronaldo Ali Muhammad say good morning to vinard morning Vin yeah good morning Springs always good to be in your

Company the May of Buckley they tell me Buck maybe might have be Bast there that has changed now worked into the onside is Ned Ned has just improves as a overall cricketer every time I see him I I see a transformation in a young man who is

This is he wants this to be his life yeah he’s lost some weight as well he seems very focused on his cricket and as you rightly said Vernon he sees this as his profession yes and he’s preparing well for it another one who is also seen this

Game as his profession as well as colum boy tocket seems well organized tocket I’ve been very impressed with his Wicked keeping during this series so far saw him in at Warner Park when the academy defeated the lewood islands and he was very very sharp indeed but what he’s doing here is what

Everyone wants to see you want to see him add some runs to that dimension of his PLO good short delivery from Ali Muhammad well played by ashmin Ned who was also improved in his his batting you know the major concern vinard is you know we we we have to get

A psychologist we have to get somebody around the young boys so that we start to get them to think biger I think sometimes they you know they’re just within their own little Zone beautiful shot paddled around didn’t have a lot of pace it was outside the line and all he

Had to do is just use the bat and good control there by Ned to be able to keep it down down to Thorn on the F leg boundary area yeah basically just guiding it there Ned again the piece of Ronaldo Ali Muhammad not troubling him and Ali Muhammad if you take a close

Close look at him you’ll realize that uh whatever piece he gets onto the ball whatever strength he puts in comes from his shoulders more than anything else the Run uh he he seems to shuffle to the crease which is never a good sign no good positive UND drive from Caren Bo

Tucket down to ver Sami peral got into the right position turned his hips and just stroked it up the V but he has looked positive this morning two test Bowlers at Mid on Mid off miy and peral Ali Muhammad to Tucket short and Tucket is keeping this one down to Shanda Paul

This is good batting here from Tucket he’s very aware of where the fielders are and twice in the over he was able to just keep it down just roll roll that wrist over the shot and they keep it down one went to Thor who is at long leg

And the other went to imlac who has found himself way down on the boundary at Square leg in fact that was chander Paul chander Paul sorry so he is not uh just playing shots for playing shots sake he understands what is happening and he’s very aware and awareness at the crease is so

Important so the GH Eagles have looking to wrap this up but the West indes Academy they would have other ideas and so far Ned and Tucket has looked very much assured speaking about wrap it up did get a good Roy wrapped this morning at epicurian have you tried it you had a

Goat goat Roy wow pretty interesting yeah know vard you always try to you always find some things all over here is Ducket driving squeezing off with the outside edge of Sinclair he diving away and he was able to pick up a single parried it more or less good effort there by Sinclair and

Again applauded by tone tone finding the edge of the bat just did not carry and can timing his dive nicely can I see that again Leon I just wanted to see with all right I don’t think his left foot got close enough to the ball he let

The hands went he was rehearsing on the other end it’s something he’s going to have to work on especially with ta cuz ta can bow a lovely out swinger got to be very careful about that once he pitches up he gets movement no doubt about that ooh that had some gas on

It n is working away very quickly yeah that delivery down the leg side uh would not trouble the batsman definitely didn’t trouble Ned was like put putting a regular gas into a diesel engine didn’t make sense is he’s coming he’s prompting he’s pushing himself what are they doing now they’re

Thinking about and they bringing up bringing up the Fielder from Deep backward squares it miy into a leg slip all right okay so it most likely will be going body line to Ned yes that’s much better so finding his nice here this morning and really coming through the ball is coming nicely

Out of his hands here Tor that was quick at last delivery strong man tor it’s just amazing how Guyana V have just found some Venom to produce some fast Bowlers some of the clubs have been really investing well I I heard that you made a a comment yesterday

That you know we have to have Scouts going around the the region uh looking at the players and Tor was spotted by Roland butcher now before Roland butcher became a West Indies selector he’s no longer a West Indies selector before he he became a West IND selector he was hired by the

Bures Cricket Board to do a coaching stint in Guyana and he onered this young man so the talent is there just about unting it and bringing it forward and channeling uh the talent into the right direction the bures Cricket Club has done a lot for Cricket in Guyana because

There also invited Andre Robertson so cly Ambrose um for fast bowling stints as well in in Guyana so but they might might have also done some work with him but he was first spotted by Roland butcher that’s off to Roland saw that he recently celebrated his birthday very good friend of

Mine a fellow commentator yes he is made his debut for England I think it was back in 1981 and on debut at Trent Bridge forc away on the offside there for one no ball by Thorn created a record on debut he had the fastest ODI 50 I think it was a

Uh a pedestrian effort if you we always joke about it if you think about it now I think it took all of 37 balls servant for Cricket has done a lot for Barbados Cricket is now moving into the realization of in fact theyve established through the Barbados Royals

Women’s program girls in sports program in Barbados if you’re wondering what’s happening you’re viewing the West Indies Championship 2024 live at the coolage cricket ground here is Ned just whipping this one off of his hip maybe to overcompensating for that noall that he would have bowled

Overcomes to an end and so the score quickly goes up up to 177 for seven at the end of 45 you know I was saying to you you I could remember it seems like a a long time ago but Benson and hedges sponsored some Cricket camps where they used to go

Around this is where the first time I would have maybe met Garfield soers you had Lance Gibbs you had you know Reverend Wes Hall couple of those guys who came to S it’s Nas at Warner Park identified the talent you know picked out folks under that Benson Hedges series I remembered the

When they rolled around to Trinidad they held a camp a camp at dubon Park in St madlin and I visited I was a bing young fast bowler and after two deliveries s Andy told me you’ll become a better commentator I took his advice didn’t I winner oh that’s a lovely shot straight

Down the ground and it’s like it’s going to pull up just a few yards before the boundary yeah I thought he checked the shot he didn’t really go right through with it yep so was like a gol chip Saturday morning here in Antiga surve would be happy with a shot like

That up in the greens sir Richie yes you told me that s sir Richie elen Baptist Baptist pleas golf in fact in fact gari is is a real good golfer as well wow Hayden Walch is also he’s also one of the Avid golfers well Hayden Walch actually as

This is H to we into the boundary for four down at widish long on again it looked as if that was still checking that shot head up in the head in the air high up and it just cleared mid on actually uh two weeks ago Hayden Walsh

Won a Golf Invitational Tournament in St kids yes yes Hayden is very very very much active in that aspect and it’s a wonderful game to play um vinard the only reason why I’m not as consistent is that I don’t like to lose so and the hammering that

You you get when you go on the Ceda Valley Golf Course or Jack wherever around the world those guys when they beat upon you trust me you get it’s even worse than in cricket speak speaking about Gul say good morning to to Zeke yeah friend of mine in St kits you

Would know Zeke oh yes the very good golfer the mayor of the mayor of connory that’s the man the mayor of con good morning to seek you know Brian Charles Lara plays real excellent go as well too um so to is his brother Richard Richard you Lara wonderful Jan

Richard Richard he has a a golf tour takes people around the world playing golf just recently they Vietnam he took Zeke to India yeah Zeke went with him to India but just recently about a month ago he was in Vietnam with a group of golfers this is pulled away imperiously

For six wow lovely shot there by Ned he was waiting for that one he was hammered and it was also hammered by Ned over deep backward Square I think Ronaldo Ali Muhammad would learn fast pretty quickly that he should go back to his old ways of pitching the ball up

Looking to do something of the seam as he has been doing in the early stages of this tournament he got a five wickets against uh the lewood islands in the loss there and he got his wickets by pitching the ball up but I’m going to tell you a story

Vard the first cricketer I’ve ever seen come out to warm up with 12 golf balls who you think that person is SV yeah right at Warner Park I was the most nervous wreck and he said to me young man don’t worry about anything all I want you to

Do is just they were different color golf balls mhm just show the ball to me don’t worry about anything and in those days Warner Park was set up vard where when you once you hit the ball we had the terrs with it the concretes there and the bleachers so we’d hit the wall

And you’d have to turn around and catch it very quickly yeah it was was nerve-racking but I’ll give you the story as to why it was nerve-racking fard so I started as a at the lewood island senior level as a trainer mhm and in those days

You would have had more or less the competition or the Rivalry between sink and n and and barbudo so I being a young boy coming up into the system all sorts of things going through your mind boy suppose you throw the ball and it hit Viv and you know what the people going

To say because it was always intense um whenever VI came to anti sink it’s and Nas you know you always had this buildup The Spectators everybody was chirping you know who was supposed to get pick who didn’t get pick and but trust me it was the first time I seen anybody warm

Up it was just with 12 golf balls oh let his thong and then pulls his Tong behind backward Square chander Paul is there you can see him advancing Ronaldo adom continues to B short here all due respects him I don’t think he has the pace to really worry

These batsmen he should just go back to doing what he does best which just swing the ball seam the ball as well I think it’s I think it’s a ploy V it’s a definite Ploy Kevin imla is involv in the play he he set the field for that yeah

But whereas net is taking him up Calton Bowen is not think we’ll get another short ball oh that’s got to be a no ball he was outside I’d like to see that Leon he was why did the return crease there I think he did cut it yes man a look somebody

Didn’t see that one look look yeah he def wow that was close there that was as close as Sin kiss is to Antiga yeah say good morning to Maly Richards how is Mary and and the lawn tennis these days foran you mean how is Mary and the

Golf he says it’s non-existence he’s now on the golf course isn’t he he tells me that s is [Laughter] sc0 for7 now was just a m was just a natural Sportsman excellent footballer anything to do with the ball just give him I believe he played a long tennis as

Well for Ana of course yes was right up there with the best in the region I remember asking surve about Mary’s tennis uh I think I’ll have to respond off air with what he said you know Richard bar was a good gol for two yeah bar to told me this

Actually we were having fun with barage in in the last round in in St kits and bar said that he actually he beat Zeke on the go of course and pushed away on the offside quick single no it’s not there and I told Zeke this I said man Barrett

Said that he he beat you in the round of golf carile Powell who was there at the time witnessing the conversation said that had to be when Z was sleeping so then I I went back to bar I said man you you’re not telling the truth and then all of a

Sudden Barrett sends a photo on my phone where he represented the country at golf no he was a was an excellent golfer played oecs golf yeah he also told me that well poell told me that bar was also an avid M musician he’s an engineer w wow he’s one

Of the top musician engineers in fact um his his uncle Adrian lamb mhm coming out to the touam band days was one of the real top musicians in s kit and neas in The Wider part of the caraban in to the to the point that even when you had the

Music festival he was the sound engineer guy um so rich Richard has come from a natural not only sporting family because if you follow the history of um s kids Cricket over the years you’ve got the Barett so we had a bar horl Trophy series I think it’s going to restart I

Wish it would definitely I think they’re about to celebrate independence and uh I was hearing a talk in the Press Box that um that Clash is going to take place again in Nas I’ve been hearing that for some time now vinard so when it happens I will

Certainly welcome it back and you know it’s it’s it’s it’s it’s strange V because here you have a company the TC group of companies the Belgian how would have formed this company who’s who comes every year and say in our budget we have money for this game it’s just for both associations be

It senit or neas to get together and make it happen but for some strange reason vard I can’t tell you it’s just not happened for a long time yeah well actually I think there’s a date set for it in the air and I think thorn would get his fourth Wicket now that is

A nothing shot he was not in position he didn’t bounce didn’t get up it was too straight at him as well and he was looking for more height columb tuck it he’d be very disappointed in himself s of stopped on him vard if you’re playing that chot Vernon as you look at the

Replay if you’re playing that shot you want to sway just in outside the line and then go through with a shot that was was actually aiming for straight at his forehead it was as straight as a needle look at it but but look look at the length

Y yeah yeah it was it wasn’t there for the shot and it didn’t bounce enough either for him to be able to control that you know you know during play this morning is looks so solid and and then the one time so K tuck it goes torn gets

His man you be looking for five now he’s got four for 45 but two things this morning if you’re looking on at the play and you would realize more they’re not going to get 429 this match but there were two things that you were looking at

With the future in mind you wanted to see if toet could have gone on to probably get a 100 yeah that’s got to be pass passes 50 and go on to 100 that’s that’s the mindset and also you wanted to see if young Thor would have gotten

Five wickets Thor is doing that he’s going towards it now he has four yeah and if I a likely chance with Lane coming out that he can get five yeah if I know Yan Lane any any bit I’ll tell you he’s going going to play Shots on

Ball one he’s going to go so he’s going to give him a chance Kevin Anderson is coming up he’s in Lane’s here already anything pitch up Le says anything pitch up he’s going I think he’s going to get a a a a first up bumper from around the Wicket which is almost

Like on his Blind Side well there’s a second slip in place and a fourth slip there’s no first and no third in fact imlac is standing close to First slip look where IML is standing oh this is it he’s going to play his shots I think Thor would love that that

Signal wide a bit harsh though yeah that’s late it’s also late to prob will tell me that he’s in the middle well n has call him down to probably tell him take your time there is a lot of time remaining this remaining in this match I don’t know if

And we only 237 away I don’t know if Lane knows that lane is almost like a Joshua bishop and they move into high gear they just go and they keep going just keep going that’s that’s the issue sometimes that you have say good morning to right honorable Excellency basil

Morgan in monserat you been to monat vard no I haven’t been when you come back and you get some more time we got to get you over there is it far from here no we can take is there SVG air and we’ll get you over there in 10 minutes under 10

Minutes there’s also a ferry as well too the mon government has invested in a ferry for some time but I just feel that more needs to be happening in terms of the sport aspect between monat and Antiga and barbudo there’s no cricket season in monat and

There should be no reason why a monat team should not be playing in the competition in Antiga and Barbo overcomes to an end it’s the end of good over there from Thorn getting four wickets and he’ll be really fancying his chances of completing that five you look around as to the the the

The talent pool that is in monat you have folks like zandi white Joshua Grant jemell K fast emerging as one of the young guys STL Rodney they’ve got a cadri of young cricketers they’ve got some cricketers over also went off to England Damen Williams fast Bower was in

The lewood island setup who didn’t get an opportunity for two years didn’t get an opportunity to play even a first class game for the leward islands he’s now playing in Australia in fact maybe he might be returning back home shishi Britney Hector one of the women’s cricketers from Antiga barbudo she had a

Stint in Australia as well she’s heading out to sinkits today for the leel islands women’s camp so you got some young talent but it’s it’s just to be able to get the talent into a place where they can play chel bills I understand is over here playing for Club St Rodney playing for

Bethesda more changes Pall comes into the action and so sav’s Tav TLA has gone for his his trump card and you know once you see peral on the ball you know what is going to be happening so we start with a slip a silly Point short leg bat

Pad Ned driving to cover for four tossed up delivery and Ned opened up and maybe it will be some fun time now because I don’t think they’re going to be hanging around they required to get another 23 three more runs joined by in couple of seconds by

The Voice have to call him the voice mly Richards morning Vernon morning to all the Watchers listeners here in the region and around the globe may be a little disappointed that colum Bo tuck didn’t get his half Century here this morning had a perfect platform yeah we

Were just speaking about it off air in terms of his fourth Innings scores he seems to really come to the four in the fourth Innings of matches once again though just maybe just losing that bit of concentration the ball not quite short enough for the

Pull in my opinion maybe just a bit of intimidation coming into play there what’s happening here now a lot of banter going on here know the Empire has to get involved and he’s saying to Ned listen I don’t know if it was a cutand mouse game

So Ned decide well he was going to play this a lot of banto taking place Mali that’s for sure Med’s well up for it here against his home nation hammers him down the ground through mid on was probably looking to go aerial there was ashme Ned wow but made good contact

Anyway something some somebody’s packed up net here yeah he’s looking to go after these guy and he’s especially the Spinners we saw him take a liking to Ali Muhammad as well just maybe just trying to send a bit of a message here you know his his father is also the assistant coach for

The Ghana happy Eagles team is he going to be out caught beautiful catch pomal has the last laugh he does in the end Ned has to go he goes for 30 of 27 deliveries he’s still there head down at the crease he moved just yet poor shot selection just the one man

There on the leg side that’s what we talking about Mali the mindset the thinking what’s what’s the thinking I thought that was a well judged catch from Isaiah thoro oh yes oh had to backpedal slightly took it very comfortably in the end quite nonchalantly actually in the nine wickets don’t

Know for the West Indies Academy and by the shouting of Kelvin Pitman coming out um with some 41 minutes of play so far for the morning I think that the folks who said that the game would finish in three days we would have to buy drinks what those folks I [Laughter]

Wonder I did tell you guys we have to come back um from the fourth morning h 2 29 the academy would need we got any English league games today Mali I think we do quite a few and T bab the won yesterday 4 very impressive I think Liverpool in the cup

On Sunday Caro Cup final tomorrow today we got Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest Brighton Everton Crystal Palace Burnley man united Fulham Bournemouth Man City and Arsenal Newcastle so a bumper day of Premier League football English Premier League Salva defeated Tu and CER 7 n yesterday and tan babia defeated Ghana 40 in the

Under 20 Canada defeated Dominique 8 n Haiti defeated Cayman Islands 4-1 Cuba defeated angilla 13 n wow and then Trinidad and Tobago defeated St Vincent in a close one 3-2 and Puerto Ric defeated SAS 5 n Nicaragua defeated the Virgin Islands 8 n Guatemala defeated Barbados

31 so goals goals goals what you make it that s it’s result that’s a bit surprising no yeah under 20 but Puerto Ric is in a in the Spanish Maly they you know once you a Powerhouse in English football right Mali you know conaf always sets you to play against the

Spanish the Costa Rica the Panama the Puerto Rico the Mexico yeah if you get out of that and they rate you but if you don’t you know what’s happening mean this little boys they play football for Life mly yeah but they touches we going to accustomed to seeing

Sinkits probably be a bit more competitive though at that level yeah but 8 nil is a is a big One based on what I’ve been hearing I like the look of the Antiga barbuta team they seem to have some some youngsters um in fact they got one playing in the MLS yep uh not sure if Dr Hadid is actually in this squad he too is also

Another he at Aston Villa yeah so in England as well got a good coach for sure k very experienced top top player in his time Sportsman play for the West Indies under 15 in the in aural under 15 World Cup yeah first was one of the real top

All-rounders you would have had a number of days Malu and him School Cricket mhm lewood Islands Cricket you Cricket Tor to Lane L whips it dropped by Perez sort of went off balance he would have had to stick he was moving and Lane gets a chance he gets

Two in the process it’s something we’ve seen from Perez throughout this match actually when he’s Fielding he doesn’t remove the helmet even when he goes a bit deeper not sure if that would have come into play there affecting the vision but it was hit quite well but it should have

Been taken at this level yeah those catches have to be taken I think in this game we’ve seen the the the gr feeling needs to improve along with the catching it’s quick again good Pace actually flows Lane this time oh my and I know lane lane is a sort of individual

M who who has a lot of chat and a lot of banter and T is maybe saying I’m going to flow you this morning in fact T is thinking about getting five wickets he’s got four for 4 for 48 it’s got to get one on the money one

On the money look at those jumps no need to be expending your energy with a short ball there you go this one’s laye ends up outside that leg stump not quite getting into the line you see him there rehears just staying a bit leg sidisha him

M u i don’t know it’s just different now isn’t it yeah back in the day we would call that actually running running from a fast fast bow 2024 it’s called staying leg side of the ball ball amazing they need 227 steering it down to the third Manera

Anderson coming around cuts that off I think they have Anderson down here more or less for the catch a fly slip area we’ seen a couple come down into that area yesterday Anderson was deposited there for the left-handed Joseph did they run they didn’t run no they didn’t wow interesting

He tells me Calin Pitman wants none of Isaiah thought oh maybe maybe maybe Lan wants done yeah that as well he now takes a single so couldn’t understand why he never took the single before but now takes it oh my T and and Lane the non Striker

Head there fast Bowlers you like to see this like a banter former teammates as well yeah yeah t is saying don’t worry I’m going to deal with you Lane is saying I’m going to catch you too little banter between the two young fast Bowlers there Isaiah th quite animated

Here this morning they get an opportunity for the West Indies one day Pitman keeps out one does well more than well local Cricket taking place today around Antiga and baruda 203 for9 49 overs ball Jordan Johnson top scored the 54 C pal B took it 43 he’ll be kicking himself real

Platform today to as vard said to get himself for half century get a KN out maybe even get a 100 based on how Ned was batting and it was a stroke out to the blue as well he was looking so uh compact the banter the banter he come

Back this morning he set his stall out again and as he said just probably a bit intimidated by that pace the length the length of that hostility from from on maybe a bit of premeditation coming into play there of course I think he was also looking for that short ball from

Thor to which he really wanted to to whack but sometimes you have to forget that take that out of your your memory bank and say not today Thor peral hunting a second second Innings Wicket here that would wrap up this match for the guy in a happy eag

So we had cclay with four wickets Tor with four somebody searching to try to get five don’t know if Pall will allow Thor to get that five Wicket Hall but we’ll find out here is Lane hitting this into the square leg area for four T doesn’t get there he’s got long levers

Lane and he went for it hard I don’t think he was trying to hit it quite as Square as it ended up in the end but hit quite well nonetheless did probably aiming more in that cocon area ended up going down to the square leg boundary as we see a second man being

Deposited so there’s no short leg there’s no silly point just a slip it’s Raymond Perez actually he goes back to theep backward Square let me see what will be the response from Lane if he’s still going to go changes his mind comes quietly forward so don’t think he’s going to get caught like

Ned I think he’ll take it on though you think regardless yeah okay we haven’t seen much different from these West Indies Academy batters here in the second Innings theyve continued to play Shots throughout they tend to go hard all the Time so England making a fight back as you rightly M yeah I actually missed last night I was so tired I just went straight to bed and I got home so haven’t been able to follow actually day two at all he gives him out oh that was to me seems like ire ramani

Is ready for lunch to be honest serious yeah that’s missing big time I don’t think that’s hitting the second set of stumps there on the leg maybe just clipping a second set to me it look like it was pitched outside the line of the Le yeah that as

Well it seems like pitched outside and kept on going going so the Ghana hary Eagles have won this game peral finishing with two for 48 they won by 221 runs 221 runs and they’re celebrating it’s a massive win a big win for the guy in the hary Eagles yeah 51 minutes

Into the morning’s work play means that some people won’t get lunch today the players will no well certainly they’ll have to feed the GRS men for sure I think they’ll have to feed everyone V I like that but full points for the guy in a happy Eagles here as we

See both teams coming together now just the exchange a few handshakes a few daps a few Big Ups as we say here it’s good to see everyone’s come through this match as well healthy as healthy as possible no real major injuries as well it’s good to see disappointing performance though

From the West Indies Academy especially with bat in hand and even yesterday on day three uh the way they came out with the ball really didn’t have the lacked the penetration required also seemed quite aimless devoid of plans and it was there in which Kevin Sinclair really

Came to the four I think the mindset also Mali of the West Indies Academy um I know they’ve missed the the captain Nim young but for some particular reason you know it the the tactics just won’t clear um even in the the field placings you know even in the approaching their

Batting how they went about the game and I know you were talking about Mali about them going hard all the time but they got to change the they’ve missed a number of batsmen um you know the kevn Anderson’s the M Kenzie you know you and I don’t think that they have replaced

Them and so that’s a area of concern which they’re going to have to seriously deal with well also I think akimo Gees he’s one of the players who would have been one of the first uh inductees into this program alongside Anderson and Clark and so far he hasn’t really taken

On the added responsibility they’ll be looking to him as well to actually uh show all the experience and all the work that he’s been doing over the last couple Seasons also this it’s about time that you know he comes to the four yeah even Bishop I think Bishop is going to

Have to work a lot more harder on his game in terms going they’re going to need the support systems um because cricket was West Indies can do so much Mali is now going to boil on to the the the the players themselves to get the right personnel and one of the things

One of my major concerns I have Mal is when they leave antig barbu and they go back home to their territories they getting that support system that is required to help them to develop their game that is the that is the major concern I think also what they

Can take away is is the experience of the environment here at this EAS CG when they do go back home they try and Foster that try and create that little environment uh themselves as well because they would have picked up quite a bit of knowledge here quite a bit of

Experience that’s something they can also take back not only for themselves but for younger players uh back home in their territories as well yeah so it’s a it’s a hunting ground we’re going to have a break as you rightly said mly let’s look at I think I got my fixture

Somewhere so we let the folks know what what’s going to be happening there’s going to be a break now from this competition the break will start from February 26 to March 9 so the next time that you will be hearing our voices here at the colage cricket ground will be on

The 13th of March when the West Indies Academy will be taking out the Jamaica scorpions right here at the colage cricket ground in fact you’ll also have Trinidad and Tobago Red Force versus the Windwood Islands at Queens spark over combine campuses and colleges versus the lewood island the Deo Martin Regional

Complex and then you have the Ghana happy Eagles versus the Barbados Pride at the S Frank W cricket ground and then we move on to the next round which will start from the 20th to the 23rd Trinidad and Tobago Red Force versus Barbados Pride that’s a big one as you would say

Sford would say the Queens spark over Le islands versus the Jamaica scorpions of deer Martin Regional complex Ghana happy Eagles versus the windw island volcano that Frank W quick ground and at the coolish cricket ground the West indes Academy will take on the combine campuses and colleges then there’s a

Break from March 25th to April 6th because we’ll be getting ready for the Cricket West Indies under 15 which will be right here in Antiga Barbo they come back for the final round of matches which will start on April 10th yes April 10th you go back to Sabina Park Jamaica

Scorpions versus Ghana hary Eagles at Sabina Park come by campuses and Coles versus Trinidad and Tobago Red Force at tredwin Park I think there might be a change lewood islands is supposed to be taking on Barbados Pride at Survivor Richards stadium and West indes Academy versus winw island volcano a coish

Cricket ground think the game at Survivor Richards Stadium might be changed but don’t hold me to that then we go on to the final round of matches which will be April 17th to the 20th Jamaica scorpions versus Trinidad and Tobago Red Force at Sabina Park combine campuses and colleges versus Ghana happy

Eagles at Kensington lewood islands versus the Winwood Island volcanos at the surviv Richard stadium and the West inders Academy versus the Barbados prde Mali your thoughts on this game and where do we go from here well from a guy a happy Eagles perspective there’s been a lot of chatter going on even leading

Up to this match about team selection and maybe just a May a bit of infighting going on in the setup but they’ve answered all the critics here at the ccg they’ve really hit back uh they’ve looked to their experienced players their International Players you know

Kevin S CLE uh picking up six wickets in the match and scoring his Maiden first class 100 from a West Indies Academy perspective a little disappointed with what I’ve seen from them uh they’re still young still forging their way in their careers and I think theyve

Probably just got to go back to the the drawing board a little bit in terms of their approach especially from the Batters the art of constructing an Innings here they cont contributed a bit too much to their own uh downfall well when I look at the Ghana happy Eagles team they would have

Been inspired by the Kevin by Kevin Sinclair and looking in you in the last couple of days even from Sinclair scoring that that big 100 you saw a more upbeat guy on hary Eagles team also you have to bear in mind that they at the defending Champions and so pride is at

Stake with the experience of their test players um we have Mi Sinclair per Mall Tas Ry Shanda Paul coming back you know they they they really lifted their game and took it to a Next Level the break now is going to be a period of time I

Don’t think they would have loved this the break coming up Mali they would have maybe want to continue this momentum going into the next game but such is life um there’s a break you have to respect that and I think it will give them some time those who have niggles to

Go back home and get themselves sorted out the academy they have to improve on their feeling and catching and compared to the standard that they set last season this year so far they’ve not been on the money they would have also missed their Captain N Young Who if n young had

Played in this game would have been a different ball game um with his with his skills because he would have would have brought his white ball skills on this track especially to the guy a um batsman but that’s history they now have to go back to the drawing board they have two

Weeks off which I sure that they will be working hard to get themselves organized you rightly said the AIS the bishop the the senior Pros in the West Indies Academy team they now have to understand this is what they have around warl is a young man who I’ve got some time for but

I hope that he does not make the same mistake that he made again has to understand this is red ball Cricket this is four the cricket this is preparing you for the test level if you’re not interested in playing test Cricket then you quietly tell Mr vinard maner listen

I just prefer to play white ball Cricket but if you come into the system then you have to adapt you have to learn and you have to understand and read the game to know what is going to be happening around you so I want to wish all of the

Guys all of the best as they take a break and as he rightly said Mali a lot of folks came to he injury free let’s hope that they can be able to go on from strength strength some other positives um we saw khum Bo tuck it um in this

Game he will go back to the join board and know that he has to work harder on his batting his glove work has been good and we just want to be able to wish all of the guys all the best as we spe for for