COLOM­BO, Sri Lan­ka — With just one point sep­a­rat­ing West In­dies and Sri Lan­ka in the ICC One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al rank­ings, the skip­per of the Caribbean side is head­ing in­to their three-match rub­ber here with ex­pec­ta­tions of over­tak­ing the hosts in the stand­ings.

SYD­NEY–De­spite hav­ing not played an in­ter­na­tion­al match in over a year be­cause of ma­jor in­jury, surgery and re­hab, De­an­dra Dot­tin re­mains vi­tal to the West In­dies women’s squad, says cap­tain Stafanie Tay­lor.

There is much to dis­cuss in the world of crick­et. West In­dies are away from home to take on Sri Lan­ka in an­oth­er ODI se­ries from to­mor­row. Hav­ing beat­en Afghanistan and nar­row­ly los­ing to In­dia, this se­ries will test the re­solve of Kieron Pol­lard's men. They must do it with­out Evin Lewis and Shim­ron Het­my­er but I am sure oth­er bats­men will rel­ish the op­por­tu­ni­ty and step up; so for me, that is not of con­cern. I ex­pect the Windies to win a close se­ries.

A dou­ble strike by Dar­ius Ol­liv­er­ra for T&T Pro League lead­ers De­fence Force, saw them ex­tend their lead on the 11-team stand­ings with a 2-1 vic­to­ry over Cunu­pia FC at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um, Cou­va on Tues­day.

SYD­NEY – When West In­dies be­gin their bid for the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2020 ti­tle on Sat­ur­day, vice-cap­tain Anisa Mo­hammed says they will be seek­ing re­venge on hosts Aus­tralia.

For­mer cap­tain of the T&T Red Force team De­nesh Ramdin says coach Mervyn Dil­lon does not want him on the team.

An­oth­er gar­nishee or­der has been tak­en out against the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA), this time al­leged­ly by for­mer tech­ni­cal di­rec­tor Kendall Walkes last week due main­ly to ow­ing un­paid wages.

Left-arm or­tho­dox spin­ner Nick­yle Jal­im was in top form tak­ing four wick­ets to lead Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege, San Fer­nan­do to an up­set win over lead­ers Shi­va Boys in the Pow­er­Gen Sec­ondary Schools Pre­mier­ship Di­vi­sion I tour­na­ment at Wil­son Road, Pe­nal on Tues­day.

COLOM­BO – West In­dies team man­ag­er Rawl Lewis says the Caribbean men will not be un­der­es­ti­mat­ing Sri Lan­ka in their three-match One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) se­ries start­ing here Sat­ur­day, but will be fo­cused on win­ning the se­ries and re­gain­ing the sup­port of fans across the re­gion.

Ma­lik Gopaul of San Fer­nan­do Boys’ RC School and Mon Re­pos RC's Chloe Fras­er tri­umphed with con­trast­ing wins in their re­spec­tive Vic­to­ria Ed­u­ca­tion Dis­trict's Over-10 Di­vi­sion fi­nal in the Pri­ma­ry Schools Ta­ble Ten­nis Tour­na­ment.

Vet­er­an Adam Alexan­der showed he still had it when ac­tion in the T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion's Road Race League ped­alled off on Sun­day from Cou­va to Mt Hope and back.

Sarah Ram­phal up­set Yeji Lee’s plans for a three-peat in the first flight gross di­vi­sion as ju­niors dom­i­nat­ed the Svel­ty T&T Women's Open which end­ed on Sun­day at the St An­drews Golf Course in Mo­ka, Mar­aval.