Posted on 26 September 2010. Tags: CLR James, Cricket, Manchester Guardian, The black Jacobins, Trinidad

CLR (Cyril Lionel RobertJames was a Marxist writer, political commentator, and Cricket lover. One of his most famous works is "The Black Jacobins"; a biography of "Tousaint Louverture" the Haitian Revoloutionary. Born in Trinidad, he attended the Queen's Royal College on the island before becoming a cricket journalist and also writing fiction. In 1932, ...
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Posted on 23 March 2009. Tags: Caribbean, Chanderpaul, Cricket, England, Sport, West Indies

Second One Day International-Guyana
West Indies 264-8 Innings Complete (S Chanderpaul 112 no, R R Sarwan 74) v England 243 (A J Strauss 105)
West Indies beat England by 21 runs
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Local hero Shivnarine Chanderpaul led from the front as West Indies bounced back from their farcical defeat in the opening one-day international with a 21-run victory over ...
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