Barbados Today<\/a> in an interview that his first experience with cricket in Saint Vincent was in the VPL.<\/p>\n\u201cObviously, this is a short, sharp tournament for a good cause, celebrating emancipation. You know, when the West Indies were great, one of the reasons was the \u2018us versus the rest.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brathwaite said that while the atmosphere off the field is positive, things on the field didn\u2019t go according to plan, as they had a last-minute withdrawal.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just don\u2019t think we scored enough. When you don\u2019t score enough, you always try different things on the field. If you look at their three international players versus ours, I think that\u2019s where the game was won or lost.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Leeward Lions suffered a seven-wicket loss to the Kingstown Kings.<\/p>\n
The festival, the first of its kind, is being held at the Arnos Vale Cricket Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barbadian Carlos Brathwaite, captain of the Leeward Lions, says the emancipation festival is something that should be encouraged.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-41574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}