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/ 8 February 2009
Andrew Strauss’s first game in charge of England began in the worst imaginable manner, a defeat by West Indies by an innings and 23 runs.
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/ 7 February 2009
The West Indies edged into a lead of 34 runs on an attritional third day of the first Test against England at Sabina Park on Friday.
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/ 5 February 2009
Kevin Pietersen gave his wicket away on the verge of another milestone as England toiled for runs in the first Test against West Indies on Wednesday.
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/ 4 February 2009
Captain Andrew Strauss expects England to be fully focused from the first ball against the West Indies in the opening cricket Test.
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/ 21 October 2008
Thieves in Jamaica have embarrassed police and triggered a political row by stealing a beach — and making a clean getaway.
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/ 9 September 2008
Thousands of Jamaicans braved heavy rain on Monday to give triple Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt a rapturous welcome home.
Specially equipped C-130 Hurricane Hunters help forecasters know where tropical storms and hurricanes will go and when.
Tropical Storm Gustav was blamed on Thursday for at least 68 deaths in the Caribbean and forecasters said it could hit oil fields as a hurricane.
Tropical Storm Gustav took a turn on Thursday, moving south as it crept toward Jamaica on a new track that could spare New Orleans.
Once reviled, ‘white reggae’ is now taking off all over the world. But is it any more than a pale imitation of the real thing, asks Dave Stelfox.
Seamer Stuart Clark took five wickets to spearhead Australia to a 95-run win in the first Test against the West Indies on Monday. Resuming on 46-1 on the fifth day, the West Indies were all out for 191. They lost skipper Ramnaresh Sarwan and opener Devon Smith early and slumped to 117-6 at lunch, with Clark and pace bowler Brett Lee doing the damage.
Andrew Symonds struck 79 on Sunday to revive Australia but the West Indies remained well in contention in the opening cricket Test at Sabina Park at the close of day four. The home team, after bowling out Australia for 167, was 46 for one in pursuit of 287 when bad light halted play an hour early.
Shivnarine Chanderpaul received a precautionary brain scan after he was struck on the back of his head off Brett Lee’s bowling to score his 18th Test hundred on the third day of the opening Test between West Indies and Australia on Saturday. The 33-year-old Chanderpaul was on 86 and trying to evade a sharply rising delivery from Lee, when he received the excruciating blow.
West Indies coach John Dyson hailed his side’s bowling late on the third day of the opening Test which sank Australia to 17 for four in their second innings on Saturday at Sabina Park. But he urged the batsmen in the side to follow the example of long-standing left-hander Shivnarine Chanderpaul, whose 118 in the first innings led West Indies to 312, replying to the Aussies’ first innings total of 431.
Stuart Clark cut down West Indies’ top-order batting with his steady, accurate, if not menacing fast-medium bowling to tighten Australia’s grip on the opening Test on Friday. Clark has so far collected three wickets for 18 runs from eight overs, as West Indies, replying to Australia’s first innings total of 431, reached 115 for three.
Australia captain Ricky Ponting strode majestically to his 35th Test hundred to help his side recover from a shaky start in the opening Test against the West Indies on Thursday. Ponting used a West Indies attack hamstrung by the withdrawal of key strike bowler Jerome Taylor to serenely progress to 158.
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/ 15 January 2008
Embattled cricket umpire Steve Bucknor expressed disappointment on Monday in being sent home from the Test series between India and Australia. Bucknor said he was ”disappointed that I am not continuing the tour between Australia and India, in Australia. But I respect the International Cricket Council’s authority in the matter.”
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/ 29 November 2007
An inquest into the death of late Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer failed on Wednesday to determine his cause of death, leaving a mystery unresolved. An 11-member jury said it had not seen enough evidence in the inquest to decide whether Woolmer was murdered or died of natural causes.
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/ 20 November 2007
Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer was a ”little depressed” following his team’s ouster from the Cricket World Cup but he was looking forward to going home, according to an email released on Monday that may have been his final words before his surprise death.
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/ 9 November 2007
Jamaican expert Fitzmore Coates testified at the inquest into the death of ex-Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer that tests showed traces of potentially deadly pesticide cypermethrin. Coates said that two weeks ago he was asked to provide an toxicology analysis of the Woolmer’s stomach contents.
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/ 7 November 2007
A Jamaican analyst said genetic evidence found in a hotel room where Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer was discovered unconscious matched the coach’s DNA profile. Woolmer (58) was found on the floor of his room’s bathroom on March 18, a day after Pakistan was eliminated from the Cricket World Cup.
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/ 1 November 2007
A key witness in the inquest into the death of cricket coach Bob Woolmer refused to testify on Wednesday, saying she had received telephone threats from members of the Indian community. Janitor Patricia Baker-Sinclair told the inquest that she saw Woolmer counting a large sum of US dollars in the stadium’s dressing room.
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/ 30 October 2007
The Jamaican government pathologist who performed an autopsy on Bob Woolmer defended his ruling that the Pakistan cricket coach was the victim of foul play in a testy exchange on Monday with an attorney representing the sport’s governing body.
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/ 27 October 2007
Toxicology tests on Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer showed conflicting results as to whether he had ingested poison, a Jamaican forensic analyst told the inquest into Woolmer’s death on Friday. Marcia Dunbar testified that evidence of the pesticide cypermethrin was found in blood and urine samples.
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/ 25 October 2007
The pathologist who performed a controversial autopsy on former Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer said on Wednesday that the Englishman was poisoned and then strangled. Dr Ere Shesiah told an inquest that Woolmer ”died of asphyxia due to manual strangulation associated with Cypermethrinide poisoning”.
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/ 24 October 2007
South African pathologist Lorna Martin told the inquest into the death of Bob Woolmer that the former Pakistan cricket coach apparently died of natural causes and mistakes were made in his autopsy. Woolmer died in Jamaica on March 18, hours after he was found unconscious in his hotel room.
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/ 23 October 2007
Canadian pathologist Michael Pollanen told the inquest into the death of Bob Woolmer that he couldn’t determine the cause of death of the Pakistan cricket coach who died during the World Cup in March. Pollanen testified on Monday that Woolmer wasn’t strangled, as police initially suggested.
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/ 20 October 2007
Efforts to revive Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer when he was found unconscious in March were hindered by the position of his body, a doctor testified at the inquest into Woolmer’s death on Friday. ”When I went to the room, Woolmer’s head was under the toilet bowl and I could not do resuscitating exercises,” said Asher Cooper.
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/ 17 October 2007
A Jamaican chambermaid said on Tuesday she found a bloodied bed, an overturned chair and a smell like alcohol and vomit when she stumbled on former Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer’s body in his Kingston hotel room earlier this year, while a United Kingdom pathologist said the coach could have had company.
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/ 4 September 2007
The opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) appeared to win power in a cliffhanger election on Monday but the ruling party, facing the end of an 18-year reign, served notice it would likely challenge the result. Election officials said the JLP won 31 of the 60 seats in Parliament in a preliminary vote count.
The long-awaited coroner’s inquest into the death of former Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer will begin on October 16, a Jamaican radio station reported on Tuesday. Radio Jamaica, citing Ken Pantry, the Director of Public Prosecutions, said more than 50 witnesses would be called at the inquest, to be held at the Jamaica Conference Centre in Kingston.
Hurricane Dean buffeted Jamaica’s southern coast on Monday, flooding the capital and littering it with broken trees and roofs after killing nine people earlier on its run through the Caribbean. Dean was an ”extremely dangerous” category four hurricane, the second-highest on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale.