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Windies in familiar territory before Australia series

                   
independent-bangladesh.com
May 20, 2008
        
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REUTERS, MIAMI - West Indies were on a high just a month ago after test and one-day wins over Sri Lanka but with the opening test against Australia starting on Thursday a familiar air of uncertainty has returned to Caribbean cricket. Captain and opening batsman Chris Gayle suffered a groin injury... [read full story]                    

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Odds stacked against the West Indies

 jamaica-gleaner.com May 22, 2008
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Sarwan: Confidence high in WI camp

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Odds stacked against the West Indies

jamaica-gleaner.com
May 22, 2008
        

THE WEST Indies and the world's number one side, Australia, launch their three-match Test series today at Sabina Park, with the hosts trying to regain the Sir Frank Worrell Trophy. This will be quite a task because, as the Aussies' ranking suggests, they are the best....

                   

Tough test for Windies

jamaica-gleaner.com
May 22, 2008
        

THE FIRST Test between the West Indies and Australia bowls off at Sabina Park this morning and the question on everyone's lips is this: Can the home team defeat the visitors from Down Under? Looking at both teams, although victory for the West Indies is not impossible...

                   

Sarwan: Windies are confident

sportal.com.au
May 22, 2008
        

West Indies captain Ramnaresh Sarwan insists his players believe they have every chance of winning when they face Australia in the first Test. There is a new-found confidence about West Indies cricket since Chris Gayle skippered the side to a first Test win in nearly three years in the 2-1 series...

                   
smh.com.au: Catch it … Australian skipper Ricky Ponting gets in some slips practice for the first Test against the West Indies in the Kingston heat on Tuesday. smh.com.au

Resurgent Windies show no fear

smh.com.au
May 21, 2008
        

IT WAS just a sentence; one of many lines from a pre-Test press conference at Sabina Park. Yet in those few, choice words, West Indies captain Ramnaresh Sarwan revealed much about his side's rising self-belief, as well as the attitude of rival teams towards an Australian side contending with a...

                   

Windies opt for positive spin

theage.com.au
May 21, 2008
        

THOUGH the Windies still face a mountainous challenge to eclipse Ricky Ponting's men in the first Test, West Indies captain Ramnaresh Sarwan was adamant that the recent retirement of Adam Gilchrist — coupled with the absence of Michael Clarke and most likely of Matthew Hayden in Jamaica — had...

                   

Sarwan hopes for Windies miracle

news.com.au
May 21, 2008
        

IT would seem mission impossible. Even with Brian Lara, the world's all-time greatest run scorer, the West Indies have struggled to match Australia in Test cricket for the best part of a decade. Now that the Prince of Trinidad has hung up his sword, the Windies' chances of upsetting the world's...

Bravo jets in to join Windies

news.com.au
May 20, 2008
        

DWAYNE Bravo highlighted the excesses of the Indian Premier League when the allrounder strutted into West Indies training after stepping off a private jet believed to have been provided by his IPL team. The glitzy West Indies allrounder and stand-in skipper Ramnaresh Sarwan joined their teammates...

                   

Sarwan: Confidence high in WI camp

jamaica-gleaner.com
May 20, 2008
        

West Indies captain Ramnaresh Sarwan has called on his players to lift their performance for the upcoming Digicel three-Test series against world number one, Australia. The opening game of the series begins on Thursday at Sabina Park. Speaking following an extensive practice...