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Division Five beckons unless we act now

A week after our heartbreaking demotion to the Pepsi ICC World Cricket League Division Four, cricket fans are still stunned and alarmed at what happened in Malaysia. Last week I concluded my column with a famous quote from John Wooden [the late bask...
Nov 07, 2014
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Wainwright hails Hughes and Reid

The funerals for two sporting legends from the 1950s and Sixties will be held today when Sinclair “Charger” Reid and Austin “Cheesey” Hughes are laid to rest. Reid, a footballer for Wellington Rovers who also represented Bermuda, died recently at th...
Nov 07, 2014
Cricket

Inquest begins after US fall from grace

Demands for answers after relegation to the Pepsi ICC World Cricket League Division Four are not just being made in Bermuda, with the United States Cricket Association (USACA) also feeling the heat after poor performances in Malaysia. The US entered ...
Nov 06, 2014
Cricket

I’ve nothing left in the tank, says Cann

Lionel Cann has retired from international cricket after Bermuda’s relegation to Division Four of the Pepsi ICC World Cricket League. Disillusioned with the Island’s dismal showing at the Division Three tournament in Malaysia and “with nothing more ...
Nov 06, 2014
Cricket

Tributes paid to ‘Cheesey’

One of Bermuda’s sporting greats, Austin “Cheesey” Hughes, has died at the age of 87. Hughes excelled in three sports, billiards as a Bermuda champion, football with Pembroke Juniors and cricket with the Devonshire Recreation Club and Somerset Cup M...
Nov 05, 2014
Cricket

Weeks calls for an inquiry

Michael Weeks, the Shadow Minister for Sport, has called for an inquiry to get to the bottom of Bermuda’s poor showing at the Pepsi ICC World Cricket League Division Three tournament in Malaysia. Bermuda finished bottom of the six-nation standings an...
Nov 04, 2014
Cricket

Romaine bemoans failing system

The problems facing Bermuda cricket are many and the solutions are not easy, Irving Romaine, the former Bermuda captain, said yesterday. Romaine, who captained the team at the 2007 World Cup in Trinidad, expressed his sadness at Bermuda’s decline sin...
Nov 01, 2014
Cricket

Hackett slams West Indies’ greed

Selfish, unprofessional and immature. That is what Philip Hackett, the Caribbean cricket commentator and sports journalist, thinks of the West Indies players who pulled out of last month’s tour to India over a protracted payment structure dispute inv...
Nov 01, 2014
Opinion Writer

A farcical and pathetic end

Bermuda played at the Cricket World Cup in 2007, but seven years on and $11 million later, we have plummeted to an all-time low after dropping miserably into ICC World Cricket League Division Four. How has this happened? Who is to blame? Will there b...
Oct 31, 2014
Opinion Writer

It’s time for a Noah’s Ark-style cleansing

Now that the cricket is out of the way, on to a pastime that we tend to be past masters at in Bermuda — the blame game. There will inevitably be one high-profile target, but he shall remain unnamed here for the time being because: 1, There is plenty ...
Oct 31, 2014
Cricket

Rudderless Bermuda plumb new depths

Bayeumas Oval, Selangor (Bermuda won toss): United States beat by Bermuda by ten wickets It lasted only 34.5 overs. No, not the Bermuda innings. The match. These are the darkest of days. For the cricketers in Malaysia who have been trapped in an un...
Oct 30, 2014
Cricket

Bermuda plummet into Division Four

Bayeumas Oval, Selangor (Bermuda won toss): Uganda (2pts) beat Bermuda by seven wickets Bermuda’s fitful journey through the Pepsi ICC World Cricket League Division Three tournament in Malaysia has ended in an almost predictable relegation farther ...
Oct 29, 2014
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