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Spotlight on Sport
Football Ambition Needs Sterner Stuff
Reginald St. H ShillingfordApril 29, 2014From my reckoning, the Dominica Football Association was allowing six weeks to prepare a national youth team for participation in a regional tournament. If that is the case, the association ...
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School Days Were Happy Happy Days
Reginald St. H ShillingfordApril 25, 2014A happy sight caught my eye on the morning of Monday 14th April. It was that of Dominica Grammar School—house by house—making their way along the new road at the ...
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Cricket Aspirations of Twenty Million Sri Lankans
Reginald St. H ShillingfordApril 15, 2014It may have been a disadvantage that India arrived at the finals of ICC T/20 Cricket World Cup without having been seriously tested. Dhoni and his men made light weight ...
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Charm of the Uncertainty
Reginald St. H ShillingfordApril 8, 2014An almost laconic win by India over West Indies about two weeks ago must have placed somewhat unfavourable odds against the Caribbean team getting near the business of successfully defending ...
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Our football forty years on
Reginald St. H ShillingfordApril 1, 2014It is nearly forty-five years on since Dominica won the Windward Islands Football Tournament for the Popham Cup at Windsor Park in Roseau. To do so Dominica needed to beat ...
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The fine line between ignorance and bliss
Reginald St. H ShillingfordMarch 25, 2014An isolated occurrence caught my eye as I watched footage presented on women's football during a very recent local news broadcast on MARPIN Television. It happened that a young lady ...
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Basic wisdom and vision for West Indies
Reginald St. H ShillingfordMarch 18, 2014Questions have been asked and countless answers offered regarding the now chronic demise of West Indies cricket, particularly as it relates to the longer version of the game, more so ...
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Hattrick of Knighthoods
Reginald St. H ShillingfordMarch 11, 2014On 3rd February 1971, I had the privilege of managing the Combined Windwards and Leewards cricket team at Botanic Gardens, Roseau, in the Shell Shield regional tournament. The Islands had ...
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Model Approach to Performance for West Indies
Reginald St. H ShillingfordMarch 5, 2014In the wake of the decision by the ICC to entrust the administration of international cricket to the Big Three-England, Australia and India, it is of great interest to see ...
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Repair Strategy
Reginald St. H ShillingfordFeb. 25, 2014Generally it is agreed that the youth cricket team should in large measure provide a recruiting medium to bolster the senior West Indies Team. Substantially, the youth team ought to ...
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The Absolute Worry About Windwards Cricket
Reginald St. H ShillingfordFeb. 18, 2014One very simple dictionary gives the meaning of integrity as "moral excellence; honesty", and also "wholeness, sacredness". These meanings are followed in short order by the word "intellect" for which ...
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Beggars don't decide matters
Reginald St. H ShillingfordFeb. 11, 2014A deafening silence on the part of the West Indies Cricket Board in the lead up to the earth shaking International Cricket Council's pronouncements last week in Dubai has been ...
