BAS­SETERRE, St Kitts – They may be play­ing at home, but West In­dies white-ball head coach Daren Sam­my be­lieves that Bangladesh is the favourite head­ing in­to their three-match CG Unit­ed One Day In­ter­na­tion­al se­ries, which starts in St Kitts on Sun­day.

So­ca Kings are just one win away from wrap­ping up the Dream 11 Trinidad T10 Blast af­ter they nar­row­ly edged Steel­pan Play­ers on Sat­ur­day in the first qual­i­fi­er. How­ev­er, Steel­pan Play­ers have an op­por­tu­ni­ty for re­venge in the fi­nal Sun­day, if they beat Scar­let Ibis Scorchers in the sec­ond qual­i­fi­er to­day, ahead of the fi­nal.

Fa­ti­ma Col­lege and its head coach Hut­son “Ba­ba” Charles part­ed ways on Fri­day morn­ing, less than 24 hours af­ter the team record­ed what was ar­guably the schools best year in the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL).

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – The at­tor­neys-at-law rep­re­sent­ing em­bat­tled Bar­ba­dos Pride cap­tain Ray­mon Reifer, have writ­ten to Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) urg­ing them to with­draw the charges against him on the grounds that he can­not now get a “fair and im­par­tial hear­ing”.

PROV­I­DENCE – The Bangladesh-based Rang­pur Rid­ers be­came the first team to cap­ture the Glob­al Su­per League (GSL) when they crushed Crick­et Vic­to­ria by 56 runs in the fi­nal at the Prov­i­dence Sta­di­um in Guyana on Fri­day.

Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) has an­nounced that a quo­rum was not met for to­day’s piv­otal meet­ing on gov­er­nance re­form, as the rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Guyana Crick­et Board (GCB) and Bar­ba­dos Crick­et As­so­ci­a­tion (BCA) failed to at­tend, hav­ing opt­ed not to ap­point two rep­re­sen­ta­tives as re­quired by the com­pa­ny's Ar­ti­cles of As­so­ci­a­tion.

Goal­keep­er Alex­ia Dol­land was the toast of her St Joseph’s Con­vent (Port-of-Spain) team­mates af­ter she saved from Gio­van­na Sher­wood’s penal­ty to se­cure a 5-3 penal­ty-kicks win over pre-match favourites Pleas­antville Sec­ondary af­ter a 1-1 draw in the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) Na­tion­al Girls’ Co­ca-Co­la In­ter­col fi­nal at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um, Cou­va on Thurs­day.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – West In­dies fast bowler Jay­den Seales and his team­mate Kevin Sin­clair have been found guilty of breach­ing the ICC Code of Con­duct in the sec­ond Test match against Bangladesh and fined 25 per cent and 15 per cent of their match fees, re­spec­tive­ly.

The Caribbean’s crick­et lead­ers have all dis­missed the sug­ges­tion by out­go­ing chair­man of the In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil (ICC), Greg Bar­clay, that the West In­dies should be dis­man­tled from be­ing one en­ti­ty and the coun­tries play as sep­a­rate na­tions. He al­so sug­gest­ed that the ICC should al­so abol­ished of Full Mem­bers sta­tus.

ROSEAU, Do­mini­ca—Prime Min­is­ter of St Vin­cent & the Grenadines (SVG), Ralph Gon­salves, has ex­pressed his dis­ap­point­ment with the man­ner in which West In­dies crick­et has been run un­der cur­rent Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) pres­i­dent, Dr Kishore Shal­low.

KINGSTON – West In­dies Test cap­tain Kraigg Brath­waite has blamed in­con­sis­tent bat­ting and shod­dy field­ing as the main rea­sons be­hind the home side’s loss to Bangladesh in the just con­clud­ed sec­ond Test at Sabi­na Park, Ja­maica on Tues­day.

The Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) CG Unit­ed Su­per 50 Cup end­ed on No­vem­ber 23 in the most lu­di­crous of cir­cum­stances, as the com­pe­ti­tion con­clud­ed with­out a win­ner. Two weeks lat­er, we still don’t have a win­ner.