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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Joseph ready to rumble against England

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Sport Desk
380 days ago
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Britain's King Charles III poses for a group photograph with the West Indies men's cricket team, from left, Tevin Imlach, Joshua Da Silva, Jeremiah Louis, Jayden Seales, Kavem Hodge, Zachary McCaskie, Alzarri Joseph, Alick Athanaze, Jason Holder, Shamar Joseph, Mikyle Louis, Gudakesh Motie, Kirk McKenzie, Kevin Sinclair and captain Kraigg Brathwaite, at Buckingham Palace, London, ahead of the first test against England, Saturday (July 6).

Britain's King Charles III poses for a group photograph with the West Indies men's cricket team, from left, Tevin Imlach, Joshua Da Silva, Jeremiah Louis, Jayden Seales, Kavem Hodge, Zachary McCaskie, Alzarri Joseph, Alick Athanaze, Jason Holder, Shamar Joseph, Mikyle Louis, Gudakesh Motie, Kirk McKenzie, Kevin Sinclair and captain Kraigg Brathwaite, at Buckingham Palace, London, ahead of the first test against England, Saturday (July 6).

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LON­DON – West In­dies fast bowler Shamar Joseph put his de­layed ar­rival be­hind him and is ready to get down to busi­ness against Eng­land in the first Test of the Vi­vian Richards-Ian Both­am Tro­phy se­ries, start­ing on Wednes­day at the so-called “home” of the sport, Lord’s.

The 24-year-old Guyanese missed the three-day, warm-up match against a Coun­ty Se­lect XI that end­ed this past Fri­day be­cause his flight out of George­town was de­layed fol­low­ing the pas­sage of de­struc­tive Hur­ri­cane Beryl.

He is ex­pect­ed to fea­ture in a live­ly at­tack for the Caribbean side af­ter he shot to promi­nence with a match-win­ning spell against Aus­tralia this past Jan­u­ary in Bris­bane, where he helped Kraigg Brath­waite’s side achieve a his­toric win.

“Since our last tour of Aus­tralia, we main­tain our en­er­gy,” Joseph told re­porters be­fore a train­ing ses­sion at the his­toric venue for the first Test. “That’s the mind­set we come in­to this se­ries with (that West In­dies can com­pete against Eng­land).”

Sim­i­lar to their trip ear­li­er this year to Aus­tralia, West In­dies are try­ing to end a drought in Eng­land, where they have not won a Test se­ries since Vi­vian Richards’ side beat Gra­ham Gooch’s men 4-0 in a five-match se­ries.

Joseph said he was look­ing for­ward to the se­ries be­cause of the his­to­ry as­so­ci­at­ed with play­ing Tests in Eng­land, where fast bowlers have thrived and made a name for them­selves.

“I’m ex­cit­ed to be here,” he said. “Eng­land is known for good fast bowl­ing.

“Watch­ing a lot of the Ash­es with great fast bowlers, Jofra Archer, Mitchell Starc, all the great fast bowlers come out here and do well – and that’s some­thing I would want to do as well.”

The Test will be ex­tra spe­cial be­cause it will mark the fi­nal time that James An­der­son will ap­pear on the in­ter­na­tion­al stage for Eng­land and will end his ca­reer as the pac­er with the most wick­ets in the his­to­ry of the for­mat.

Joseph hailed An­der­son for his ex­ploits with the ball and some­one he ad­mired while grow­ing up, but he re­it­er­at­ed a sen­ti­ment first ex­pressed by now in­jured vet­er­an pac­er Ke­mar Roach that West In­dies plans are to try to ru­in the re­tir­ing pac­er’s farewell by win­ning.

“He’s such an amaz­ing play­er,” Joseph said about An­der­son. “Some­one I have looked up to. Some­one who is very good at this lev­el. You could say he’s per­fect be­cause he has a lot of wick­ets at this lev­el. Def­i­nite­ly, I would want to ru­in that farewell for him.”

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