VIN­ODE MAM­CHAN

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There will be no clash be­tween the Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) and the In­di­an tour of the Caribbean, as own­ers of the CPL have de­cid­ed to change the dates of the tour­na­ment.

Orig­i­nal­ly, the 2019 CPL was due to be played from Au­gust 17 to Sep­tem­ber 30 but this would clash with the In­di­an tour of the Caribbean. The In­di­an na­tion­al team is due to tour the Caribbean at the end of the World Cup in Eng­land. The World Cup ends on Ju­ly 15 and ac­cord­ing to a reg­u­la­tion set in place by the Board of Con­trol for Crick­et in In­dia (BC­CI), the team can­not em­bark on a new tour be­fore 15 days have passed. This meant that the tour would have clashed with the start of the CPL.

Af­ter ne­go­ti­a­tions be­tween Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) and CPL, the CPL own­ers de­cid­ed that they would move their dates and now the CPL will be played from Sep­tem­ber 4 to Oc­to­ber 12.

The In­di­ans will be com­ing to the Caribbean at the end of Ju­ly and will play two Test match­es, three ODIs, and three T20s. The Test match­es are like­ly to be played in Trinidad and Ja­maica, while Guyana will get the ODIs and the T20 match­es will be played in Fort Laud­erdale as was done dur­ing the last In­di­an tour of the Caribbean.

The T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB) has been in dis­cus­sion with the gov­ern­ment of T&T and a bid will be made soon for the first Test match in­volv­ing the In­di­ans. T&T did not bid for any of the match­es on the Eng­land tour of the Caribbean re­cent­ly as the Tests were played in Bar­ba­dos, An­tigua, and St. Lu­cia. The ODIs were played in Bar­ba­dos, Grena­da and St. Lu­cia and the T20s in St. Lu­cia and St. Kitts.

Badree to coach at the IPL

Windies leg-spin­ner Samuel Badree is set to be­come the first West In­di­an to coach in the lu­cra­tive In­di­an Pre­mier League (IPL).

Badree a lev­el III coach has been em­ployed as the spin bowl­ing coach for the Del­hi Cap­i­tals for the up­com­ing IPL. The IPL gets go­ing on March 23 and Del­hi Cap­i­tals will be­gin their bid for ho­n­ours on March 24 against the pop­u­lar Mum­bai In­di­ans.

Badree will be work­ing with the for­mer Aus­tralian Test play­er Ricky Ponting who is the head coach at the fran­chise. Badree has played in five CPLs start­ing in 2013. He first played for the Ra­jasthan Roy­als and then moved to Chan­nai where he played for two years. He al­so played for the Roy­al Chal­lengers Ban­ga­lore for two sea­sons

The Bar­rack­pore man made it clear that he has not re­tired from in­ter­na­tion­al crick­et. "I have not re­tired from in­ter­na­tion­al crick­et. I have coached be­fore at the Aus­tralian Acad­e­my so this is my sec­ond stint as coach and I am re­al­ly look­ing for­ward to it.

"I am very proud of be­ing the first West In­di­an to coach at the IPL and al­so to be a spin­ner and get a job as a spin bowl­ing coach in In­dia is al­so big to me.

"I in­tend to do the best that I can do to lift the fran­chise and I am keen to see how this tran­si­tion from play­er to coach works out. I have nev­er coached at a high lev­el here in the Caribbean so I am look­ing for­ward to learn­ing a lot and con­tribut­ing a lot to the Del­hi set up.

Badree has played 197 T20 match­es and has tak­en 187 wick­ets at an av­er­age of 22.16 and an econ­o­my rate of 6.02.