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By Eric McClymont ​Observation from the stands at Lord’s Cricket Ground reveals a stark reality: the future of English cricket is forged long before players step into county academies. It is built across hundreds of private school grounds, university ovals, and youth pathways where young players absorb competitive discipline, foreign conditions, and tactical awareness week […]

Did The ECB and The Hundred Organisers Miss the Memo—or Just Miss the Crowd? ​While The Hundred celebrates record attendances and family turnouts, anyone walking into Lord’s, the Oval, or Edgbaston can see a glaring absence: where is the British Afro-Caribbean community? ​For a tournament built around “opening up the game,” the lack of West

It’s a heat-wave and England captain Greig “ups” the temperature The summer of 1976 was a significant period in my young life. I’d finished primary school, was preparing for life at ‘big’ (secondary) school, millions of people across Britain were experiencing a lengthy, drought ridden heatwave and the West Indies arrived for their 10th Test

By Clayton Goodwin The most talented figure to grace the playing field In his passing Sir Garfield Sobers – Garry Sobers – has generated almost as many words and phrases as the runs, wickets and catches that he achieved on the field of play. “Almost” is illustrative because nothing can come close to matching the

Reviewed by Eric McClymont ERIC McCLYMONT (right) had the pleasure and privilege of meeting JIMMY ADAMS, former West Indies cricket captain and ubiquitous and respected coach and technical director recently at Lord’s and shares his views with readers of Caribcommx. “I asked Jimmy what the issue was with the lack of preparation for the 2024

Recently, I invited several former and current West Indian cricketers from across Greater Manchester to visit the “West Indians in the Lancashire Leagues Cricket Exhibition”, which I helped to produce, at the world-famous Old Trafford Cricket Ground, home of the Lancashire County Cricket Club. This visit coincided with the first day of the Lancashire vs.

Cricket West Indies (CWI) has announced its 15-member touring squad for the October 2nd-14th, two-test series against India, with matches in Ahmedabad and Delhi. The series forms part of the ICC World Test Championship and will be the first away fixture for the test team in the new cycle and the first test tour of

Hayley Matthews, captain of West Indies women cricket team and outstanding West Indies cricketer of her generation, and Eric McClymont, cricket pundit, steward at London’s premier grounds and good friend of Caribcommx, meet up at the Oval on a hot summer’s day.  What was Eric doing allowing himself to be seen at the Hundred? Ah,

Submitted by Clayton Goodwin Roland Butcher’s book Breaking Barriers – Barbados to England … and Back is really two books in one. It’s the story of a talented and celebrated cricketer, and more than just a cricketer: it contains also a series of semi-academic dissertations about breaking ethnic and social barriers. Here I am at

By Clayton Goodwin There has been a rush of books about Sir Frank Worrell. Three have come to our attention in the last few months alone – those by Simon Lister, Vaneisa Baksh and Hilary Beckles (as reviewed here) – as well as others written in years gone by. Interest has been shown, too, in