In February, West Indies Women returned to their best format of the game and comprehensively beat Bangladesh Women 3-0.

Machel jumped into the hot seat to look back at the series and explain why it was a very good series for the West Indies regardless of result.

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Does playing for the West Indies really matter as much as the players say so?

Machel jumped into the CCP studios to ask the difficult questions about allegiance to the West Indies.

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A more important bilateral series than it may have seemed on the surface.

By defeating Bangladesh Women 2-1 it consigned the Tigers to the WC qualifiers alongside the West Indies, Pakistan, Scotland, Ireland and Thailand.

Machel jumped into the hot seat to look back at the series and ponder what that should mean for West Indies WC qualification.

Postscript: West Indies did not qualify in the long run!

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Earlier this year Cricket West Indies launched the brand new scouting system with a primary focus on the West Indies Championship.

They unveiled a groundbreaking, data-driven scouting system aimed at identifying and developing the best cricketing talent across the region.

Cricket West Indies, Director of Cricket, Miles Bascombe joined us to talk us through the new system as well as delving into all other major changes in West Indies cricket in the last year.

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The Diaspora Files - Machel explores how the Cricket West Indies can do more to widen the talent pool.

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A week after the miracle in Multan, Machel headed to the CCP studios to hand out the player ratings from the Pakistan vs West Indies series.

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Following West Indies historic win in Pakistan, Fazeer Mohammed joined Caribbean Cricket Podcast for an episode we called 'Saving West Indies cricket'.

As ever with our episodes ft Fazeer, we covered all aspects of West Indies cricket from the performance in Pakistan to Daren Sammy to Governance in the region and so much more.

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It might seem like a long time ago but at the start of this year West Indies pulled off the Miracle in Multan.

They downed Pakistan by 120 runs to share the series and avoid last place in the World Test Championship table.

Machel and Santokie provided an immediate reaction to that piece of history.

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There are plenty of places to start when deconstructing where things went wrong in West Indies cricket but do the selectors get their portion of the blame?

West Indians love to call for this person and that to be dropped but arguably too many players in WI cricket get dropped before it is even the time to do so.

Machel took a look at the batting party that toured Bangladesh in January 2021 and analysed how we got to January 2025 with only Kraigg Braithwaite left.

Should selectors take more of the blame - do they make too many unforced errors?

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Earlier this year we spoke with West Indies senior men's analyst, Avenesh Seetaram.

He joined us to talk:

The role of an analyst

and so much more...

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