The Windsor Park Stadium will see more cricket action next year as Zimbabwe tours the Caribbean for a six-match series.
The West Indies will take on the African visitors in two Test matches, three One-Day Internationals and two Twenty20 Internationals to kick-off the international cricket programme in the Caribbean for 2013.
Dominica will host one of the two Tests to be played from Wednesday, March 20 to Sunday March 24, 2013.
The Zimbabwe tour will run from February 20 to March 20 with the ODIs at the Grenada National Stadium, the T20s at Sir Vivian Richards Cricket Ground in Antigua, followed by the Test matches at Kensington Oval in Barbados and Windsor Park.
The series will signal a resumption of Test cricket between the Windies and the Zimbabweans. The two teams last met each other in the Caribbean in 2010 when they played only limited-overs matches.
The Windsor Park saw cricket action earlier this year when the Windies and the Australians clashed in the Third Digicel Test.
Below is the full Zimbabwe tour schedule as released by WICB:
Wed, February 20: Zimbabwe v UWI Vice Chancellor’s XI, Grenada (venue to be confirmed)
Fri, February 22: 1st ODI – Grenada National Stadium, Grenada
Sun, February 24: 2nd ODI – Grenada National Stadium, Grenada
Tue, February 26: 3rd ODI – Grenada National Stadium, Grenada
Sat, March 2: 1st T20I – Sir Vivian Richards Cricket Ground, Antigua
Sun, March 3: 2nd T20I – Sir Vivian Richards Cricket Ground, Antigua
Thu, March 7 to Sat March 9: Three-day warm-up – 3Ws Oval, Barbados
Tue, March 12 to Sat March 16: 1st Test – Kensington Oval, Barbados
Wed, March 20 to Sun, March 24: 2nd Test – Windsor Park, Dominica
Without putting a downer on your good news, that is the time when you Dominicans should boycott the match in protest of Shillingford not being selected for the previous matches
I look forward to the test match. Dominicans are known to host lovely cricket. We need to have our own Gravey personality during the games. I can count on the officials to make these days memorable for our visitors. Lets have bubbling excitment on Roseau as never before.
Long we keep filling in big crowds we almost certain of geting an english test in 2014,we love ODI n T20 but have some patience Dominicans
Allu Dominicans are not easy!!!!
There are fewer comments saying Praise God, the stadium is being used or we are getting some cricket action. Instead, the comments are COMPLAINTS about what kind of matches Dominica should host – Test/ ODIs etc.
You guys are a bunch of ungrateful people. First…there was noise that the stadium was being built. Now that it is built, there is noise about what is being hosted.
Can’t you guys see the positive and simply say “Thanks/Thank God”?
MAGWAYSA… if you don’t appreciate the little things what are you guys coming to?
well I just hope they get the buying tickets system sorted this time. Total mess last time. Easy to do, one way in one way out. Not rocket science.
I missed thumbs,the only way am able to reply the negative comments thumbs down,Admin.we need thumbs back.thumbs that attract me to be DNO reader it is no longer excited.
DAT WINDSOR PARK THING!!DEY CYAN CHANGE DI NAME OV DI GROUNDS!!!DI WINDSOR FAMILY NEVA DO NOTING FOR DA
ALL DI SAME,WINDSOR OR NOT I WILL BI DERE IF JAH PERMIT.
ODI is not a problem with me. Can you all imagine a powerful WI team meeting England at Windsorpark and thousands of the Barmy Army fans are here in DA. This would have all the hoteliers smiling all the way to the bank.
Personlally i love test matches. It’s the real cricket.
Trust me, with a 10,000 seat stadium the English fans would fill that place in no time. There would not be any hotel rooms available in Dominica. Now see the hoteliers double and triple their room rates.
It would be nice to have them (The English)next year for a test match. Not an ODI.
Cricket lovely Cricket. I love all versions of it.
@% – The English Barmy Army tends to appear in much larger numbers for test matches than ODIs and T20s. For them, it is more cost effective to come in huge numbers for test matches rather than ODIs and T20s as they are able to remain in one area for a much longer period and avoid frequent flying expenses, hotel expenses etc.
Therefore, if we want to really benefit from a massive influx of overseas cricket visitors such as the massive English Barmy Army which follows the English cricket team around the world, then it is a test match we would need to host.
England is coming to the Caribbean in 2014. I believe the Dominica Cricket Association should put their application in early – all now – to host a game in that upcoming Windies vs England series in the Caribbean in 2014.
Oh yes – Test matches are the real thing and not circus shows like T20 cricket. Solid food in the form of test matches & ODIs is always better than T20 cricket junk food.
@ Channel One That’s why i said personally i love test matches.I love it more than ODI’S… It’s the real cricket.
Test matches are ideal for this struggling country. More revenue.
NO limited overs matches. We have to learn to win test matches first. It is the mother of all cricket.
I want just TEST MATCHES…That’s the real cricket…Those of you clamouring for ODI’S,,, OUR PLAYERS HAVE TO LEARN PROPER CRICKETING SKILLS FIRST…
ODI’S should be in the next five to ten years in Dominica, when we have players who are world beaters. Players who can win test matches.
Stay home if all you dont want to view test match cricket.
Lovely… it can be 1/2 an hour, thank God, we having cricket in DA. Mwen la!
A 20/20 or a one day match would be great…i could imagine a 20/20 on a Sunday afternoon give Dominicans room
Test Match… Wow. That’s the cricket i like… Good news.
Only in Dominica! Give all you a stadium all you complain. Give all you test matches all you complaining. Lord, what on earth will really make Dominicans happy? Come on people let’s appreciate life and enjoy what we have and the people who make it happen. One Love
Man oh man, I won’t be able to see that match cause I already have airline ticket for Carnival, Can’t get time off my job back to back, and money is not common as before. I am really sad. any one share my feelings.
No no sweetheart no one cares about that.
Next time around, we want ODI and 20/20. Right domnicans
boy you just can’t please black people
WRONG!
I want only test matches. No 20T/20T
why nanton not getting d board to gv us odi or 20/20? They know how our crowd is, so why gv us test. The other island stadium was empty, not ours. People that doh no cricket coming stadium, that is to say.So nanton, next time, take a good breakfast and talk on our behalf for odi and 20/20, and leave test for does islands that have population.
thanks Nanthan for your efforts in lobbying for DA!
Good,but get board to give us ODI and 20/20
The test matches are super.That’s the real cricket.
Test cricket comes to Dominica. Isn’t that great? Skerro again. You created the opportunities for that to happen.
Thumps down to you. Don’t be so low minded.
It si time we create our own thumps up and down. DNO what are you doing about that? Since your Technological Unit said it had a problem months ago we have never heard any thing.
Is it because too many thums down for a party in your favour?
I myself want to know why it taking so long for DNO to fix their thumbs down and thumbs up thing. I thought it had fellas in Dominica that claim to be ninja in computers. Is lie dem was lying or DNO not yet contact these computer ninjas?
DNO, NASA engineers most of the times used to figure out and fix what was wrong with the extremely complex space shuttle computers within a day or two whenever there was a problem.
Nantan must let westindies board know that we in domnica need to get odi’s or 20/20. Instead of mou-mah-taying let dem understand how domnicans love cricket. Test game is good, but is a waste here, if you want the joy of cricket in DA, gv us odi and 20/20. D board had congratulate us when they had d 20/20, when the other island’s stadium stayed empty. So why he not pushing for that? People that doh understand cricket make sure dey in d stadium. Come on Nantan, and do better for DA.
So how you know what Nanthan pushing for?
It seems like you know nothing about cricket. In the past two years that we have gotten test cricket, not a single other venue has seen a bigger crowd than Windsor Park has. Please check your statistics.
We need NO 20/20 Cricket. The test matches we need more of them… It’s better cricket, and it helps this failing economy more.
I in that!
Because we are new to international cricket we can do with anything. Dominica is the only country they can get a reasonable crowd during a test match.
we should get a ODI too man .
I in that
Papa Bondieur I am not an engineer but something is wrong with that VIP deck weeee. I hope it the picture and not the deck
I hope the government engineers or the government employ an engineering firm to look at this structure. It is better to be proactive than to be apologetic.
I understand that in some areas the concrete is already spalling.
Boy freeness is lakagwen.
GREAT stuff!
yep… time to book my leave
you just can’t please dominicans. at least say thank you. one is better than non.
we dat does have the largest crowds and we dat getting d lil test match -_-
ummm is a habit now man?? a pachay test test test…. not because we fulling stadium for test that means they have to give us all test u know….
Also England will be touring the Caribbean. ADIN wats the schedule like? Zimbabwe is a non sense team. we want some real cricket!!
correction…not england but sri lanka and pakistan are also coming to the caribbean next yr. i hope is not the old coshoni zimbabwe game alone we getting
Something looks really spooky about the deck above or the balcony if you will. Should this deck have that much deflection.
Well Dominicans, start preparing to show yourselves in full force once again for the world to see.
The 2013 international cricket season in the Caribbean is going to be a very busy one with Zimbabwe coming first, followed later in the year by a tri-series in the Caribbean involving India, Sri Lanka and the West Indies and then a series involving Pakistan and the West Indies.
I trust Dominica also gets to host some games in either the tri-series or the Pakistan tour to the Caribbean later this year.
YES next time we want test and one days/20twenty
why we always getting test matches? It should be the ODI’S and not Test..
Give me test matches everyday.That’s the real cricket which cricket enthusiasts like me like.Only thing is i would have preferred Sri Lanka or England. Wonder when they are coming, an if we will get a game..
Oh please, what’s wrong with you, hosting a test match is a big thing. And what would you say if we did not get a game?
Give all you matches…is a problem; doh give all you matches….is still a problem!!! You all like too complain too much man!! People just can’t please all you.
Its a start Anonymous we can’t get everything at once. Just appreciate, half a loaf is plenty bread. Remember picky.
Because only in DA they get 5 days support for test matches….it’s all about the money
Let us just be thankful that we are getting matches. Please do not begin with the complaining.
You be thankful and I will complain, if it’s unfair let’s say it is, and i think after so much support from the Dominican spectators at the test matches we should get at least one ODI.
I do not have a problem with the test would be nice to get one days or 20twentys with that also but I’m happy we are getting games it’s a plus to us in D/ca.
DNO: when will the thumbs up/down be back where is the I.T tech on this job?
The test matches helps hotels in Dominica to get filled and creates brisk business for many low income persons.
This is strategic for it allows minimum disruption in the workplace – hence many more employees can get a chance on a rotational basis. Many persons sees it as a win-win. ODIs and 20/20 will make money in Dominica if they are held on weekends but by andlarge we Dominicans love the traditional extended version of the game. I for one do. Win, loose, or draw I in that.
IF i remember clearly we got one days first. And we were asking why aren’t we getting test. We’ve gotten one days against Bangladesh and South Africa and we got test against India and Australia. We just have not gotten T20. In time I’m sure we will. Please lets be appreciative, there was a time when we had to travel to see international cricket, or better still when we could only listen on radio. Then came the time when we could watch an entire match on television. So my people, be patient, its a bit at a time.