Tag Archives: Barbados

Couch Talk 152 with Kragg Brathwaite

Posted on January 28, 2015 by thecricketcouch

West Indies Test opener Kraigg Brathwaite talks about his growth as a batsman, influence of club cricket, coming from Barbados, and his aspirations of captaincy amongst other things. Download the episode by clicking here or listen to it on Sound Cloud. Read the … Continue reading →

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Wanderers CC, 3 W’s and West Indies Legends

Posted on August 14, 2014 by thecricketcouch

In the Caribbean, if you trip and fall, chances are that you will land on something or someone historic. That’s even more so when it comes to cricket. The Caribbean is one of the last places in the cricketing world … Continue reading →

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Barbados: Foods

Posted on August 1, 2014 by thecricketcouch

Human nature is such that we always look for things we are familiar with when we are in unfamiliar surroundings. So it was that on our first day in Barbados, on our way to watch a CPL match, we saw … Continue reading →

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Barbados: Beach Cricket

Posted on July 28, 2014 by thecricketcouch

After a few days of chasing, scheduling and rescheduling, I got the opportunity to interview the great former West Indian opener Gordon Greenidge. He was in Port of Spain with his CPL team Trinidad Red Steel and so I called … Continue reading →

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World Trip: Barbados

Posted on July 25, 2014 by thecricketcouch

In the last two years, we have been to Trinidad (3 times), Antigua, Jamaica (twice) but the early impressions of Barbados is that it is unlike any of the Caribbean nation we have been to. It almost has an upscale … Continue reading →

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Couch Talk 122 with Roland Butcher, Former England Cricketer

Posted on May 6, 2014 by thecricketcouch

Former England batsman Roland Butcher, now director of sports at the University of West Indies, talks of his cricket and football careers, and his work in developing sport in the Caribbean, and the responsibility of being the first black cricketer … Continue reading →

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