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Sunday, July 13, 2025

Roach: Windies fast bowling in good hands

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Vinode Mamchan
1855 days ago
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West Indies fast bowler, Kemar Roach during yesterday’s net session at Old Trafford Grounds in England.

West Indies fast bowler, Kemar Roach during yesterday’s net session at Old Trafford Grounds in England.

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Fast bowler Ke­mar Roach says that West In­dies fast bowl­ing is in good hands see­ing the young­sters who are on tour with him in Eng­land at the mo­ment.

Roach who is the leader of the fast bowl­ing at­tack for the three-Test tour said: "I am re­al­ly im­pressed with the young fast bowlers and I am look­ing for­ward to work­ing with them on this tour. I am ex­cit­ed to be to­geth­er with these young fast bowlers and look­ing for­ward to them tak­ing the West In­dies fast bowl­ing to an­oth­er lev­el."

Roach, 31, has tak­en 19 wick­ets in Eng­land and en­joys bowl­ing there: "Eng­land is a fast bowl­ing par­adise and I am.loo­ing for­ward to bowl­ing here. The pitch­es are good and I think that once we stick to our plan here the fast bowl­ing at­tack can cause Eng­land prob­lems. I don't see why not."

Roach was the strike bowler who got among Eng­land in the last se­ries in the Caribbean in 2019. He grabbed 5/17 in the first Test in Bar­ba­dos and af­ter that spell Eng­land were be­mused and went on to lose the se­ries 2-0 hand­ing the Wis­den Tro­phy to the West In­dies.

The oth­er fast bowlers on tour with Roach are skip­per Ja­son Hold­er, Shan­non Gabriel who is re­cov­er­ing from in­jury, Os­hane Thomas, the im­pres­sive Bar­ba­di­an duo Chemar Hold­er and Keon Hard­ing as well as Pre­ston Mc­Sween. Roach as­sist­ed both Chemar and Hard­ing dur­ing the West In­dies Cham­pi­onship as they all played to­geth­er for the cham­pi­ons Bar­ba­dos Pride. Hold­er grabbed 35 wick­ets, while Hard­ing took 29.

The Bar­ba­di­an said that all is well with­in the camp and they are get­ting ac­cus­tomed to the new pro­to­cols. "When we ar­rived it was a bit dif­fi­cult hav­ing to wear mask and gloves every­time we went out but as the time has gone, things have got­ten eas­i­er and we have be­come com­fort­able with all the pro­to­cols."

Roach, a right-arm pac­er re­port­ed a "pret­ty smooth" tran­si­tion to the team's quar­an­tined train­ing camp at Emi­rates Old Traf­ford but the ban on us­ing sali­va to shine the ball is tak­ing some get­ting used to as the days and train­ing go by. He point­ed out that, "It's pret­ty tough. We have had some ses­sions in the nets and the at­mos­phere is pret­ty chilly, so there's not much sweat that you can pro­duce. But we are com­ing up with some ways that we can prob­a­bly get some gloss on the ball. It takes a lot more prac­tice but we will keep work­ing at it and see what the best way is."

Mean­while, the squad are still dis­cussing ways to ac­knowl­edge the Black Lives Mat­ter (BLM) move­ment when they play.

"I feel very strong­ly about it for ob­vi­ous rea­sons," Roach said. "But the team have dis­cussed it in depth and we are go­ing to go back and have a dis­cus­sion about it again soon.

"Then as a team we will come up with a way to an­swer all ques­tions re­lat­ing to that Black Lives Mat­ter is­sue."

The first Test be­gins on Ju­ly 8 in Southamp­ton.

Match Sched­ule

1st Test at Ageas Bowl, Southamp­ton – Ju­ly 8-12

2nd Test at Emi­rates Old Traf­ford, Man­ches­ter - Ju­ly 16-20

3rd Test at Emi­rates Old Traf­ford, Man­ches­ter - Ju­ly 24-28


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