BRIDGETOWN – Prime Min­is­ter of Bar­ba­dos, Mia Mot­t­ley has laud­ed Ros­ton Chase for his pro­mo­tion to West In­dies Test cap­tain, de­scrib­ing it as an “ex­tra­or­di­nary mile­stone”.

DUBLIN– West In­dies head coach Dar­ren Sam­my ex­pressed op­ti­mism af­ter his team’s first train­ing ses­sion ahead of their up­com­ing ODI se­ries against Ire­land, which bowls off with the first match on May 21 in Dublin, Ire­land.

Na­tion­al women's mid­field­er Asha James be­gan her pro­fes­sion­al stint in the Kaza­khstan Foot­ball League, scor­ing on de­but in her Wfc Bi­ik Shymkent team’s 9-0 vic­to­ry over Kyzyzhr on April 14.

ST. JOHN’S, An­tigua – Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) has called on the In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil (ICC) and the In­ter­na­tion­al Olympic Com­mit­tee (IOC) to en­sure that the unique struc­ture of West In­dies crick­et is fair­ly rep­re­sent­ed in qual­i­fi­ca­tion plans for the 2028 Los An­ge­les Olympics.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – The An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Crick­et As­so­ci­a­tion has an­nounced a for­mi­da­ble 14-mem­ber squad for the up­com­ing Lee­ward Is­lands T20 (LIT20) Crick­et Fes­ti­val, set to take place from May 31 to June 8, 2025, at the Sir Vi­vian Richards Crick­et Sta­di­um.

De­fence Force Elite and the De­fence Force Tier 2 team ad­vanced to the quar­ter­fi­nals of the FCB Cup on Wednes­day night with vic­to­ries at their home base-the De­fence Force Re­serve Ground in Ch­aguara­mas.

Over the last six years, be­tween 2019 and 2024, the T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB) re­ceived more than $30 mil­lion in tax­pay­er’s mon­ey through the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter’s Sport & Cul­ture Fund (OPM­SCF), and the Sports Com­pa­ny of T&T (SporTT), ac­cord­ing to a Guardian Me­dia in­ves­ti­ga­tion. How­ev­er, ac­cord­ing to con­cerned TTCB sources, the board has not been asked to ac­count for its spend­ing ful­ly.

ST. JOHN’S, An­tigua, May 15, CMC – With sev­er­al key West In­dies play­ers still com­mit­ted to the In­di­an Pre­mier League (IPL), Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) has named a re­shaped squad for the up­com­ing ODI tours of Ire­land and Eng­land.

DUBLIN, Ire­land – Sev­er­al fresh faces are among a 14-mem­ber Ire­land squad an­nounced on Wednes­day for the up­com­ing Twen­ty20 In­ter­na­tion­al (T20I) and One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) se­ries against West In­dies.

BAS­SETERRE – The Bar­ba­di­an trio of Nathan Sealy, Zachary Carter and Zi­dane Clarke are set to take part in the Cool & Smooth T20 Ex­plo­sion, the pre­mier T20 com­pe­ti­tion in St Kitts.

Burn­ley Ath­let­ics Club’s Des­tiny Arnold emerged as the most out­stand­ing ath­lete at the Max­imis­ing Ath­let­ic Po­ten­tial (MAP) Ju­ve­nile Track and Field Cham­pi­onships at the Man­nie Ramjohn Sta­di­um, Mara­bel­la, dur­ing the week­end of May 3-4.

Nigel Hit­lal had a sol­id match all round to lead Hit List to its third straight win from as many match­es when they beat D’Crush­ers to top Group B of the Har­vard Sports Club April Fest Wind­ball (8 overs) Crick­et Tour­na­ment on Sat­ur­day last.