ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Apex Group Ltd will con­tin­ue to spon­sor the West In­dies men’s teams for at least the next few months fol­low­ing the re­new­al of its part­ner­ship with Crick­et West In­dies (CWI).

DUBLIN – Open­er Andy Bal­birnie and pac­er Bar­ry Mc­Carthy rocked West In­dies in the open­ing One Day In­ter­na­tion­al to set up Ire­land’s com­fort­able 124-run vic­to­ry at Clon­tarf in Ire­land on Wednes­day.

Na­tion­al goal­keep­er Christo­pher Biggette played a star­ring role as de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Not Jus Fun se­cured a spot in the quar­ter­fi­nals of the Har­vard Sports Club April Fest Wind­ball (8 overs) Crick­et Tour­na­ment af­ter top­ping the three-team qual­i­fy­ing play­offs at the Har­vard Sports Club, 106 Tra­garete Road, Port-of-Spain, on Sat­ur­day.

CAN­TER­BURY – West In­dies Women’s cap­tain Hay­ley Matthews hit a bril­liant, un­beat­en cen­tu­ry but it was not enough to save her side from be­ing thumped by Eng­land Women by eight wick­ets in the open­ing Women’s T20I in Eng­land on Wednes­day.

Na­tion­al foot­ball coach Dwight Yorke is fo­cused on com­ing out of the group stage of the Con­ca­caf Gold Cup, which will be held in the Unit­ed States and Cana­da from June 14 to Ju­ly 6.

Less than two weeks af­ter the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice’s Spe­cial In­ves­ti­ga­tion Unit (SIU) raid­ed its of­fices, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Crick­et Board met on Sat­ur­day to up­date its codes of con­duct, giv­ing the ex­ec­u­tive in­creased dis­ci­pli­nary pow­er.

The du­os of Jerome Mor­ri­son and Jahreef Miguel (men) and Adalia Badroe and Kris­tian­na Richards (women) will leave­to­mor­row to com­pete at the NORCE­CA Beach Vol­ley­ball Un­der-23 Con­ti­nen­tal Tour open­er at Juan Do­lio Beach in the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic from Fri­day un­til Sun­day.

DUBLIN, Ire­land – De­spite hav­ing not played a Test match for the West In­dies in al­most four years, West In­dies white-ball cap­tain Shai Hope is still ea­ger to face the red ball once again.

CAN­TER­BURY, Eng­land – Hav­ing achieved lim­it­ed suc­cess in the last decade, West In­dies Women head coach Shane Deitz be­lieves the time has come for the re­gion­al team to adopt a dif­fer­ent style of play.

Jonathan Far­in­ha and Lalenii Grant head the list of lo­cal ath­letes who claimed gold at the Col­le­giate Con­fer­ence Out­door Cham­pi­onships in the USA re­cent­ly.

The first leg of the lo­cal Triple Crown will take place on May 30 with the run­ning of the Guineas (East­er Guineas to those who re­mem­ber the hey­days of the sport). The race is nei­ther run at East­er nor as sig­nif­i­cant on the lo­cal rac­ing cal­en­dar as it once was.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Two-time Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) cham­pi­ons Bar­ba­dos Roy­als have trad­ed Ja­son Hold­er and Al­ick Athanaze to the St Kitts & Nevis Pa­tri­ots in a move that will see Sher­fane Ruther­ford join the Roy­als for this year’s tour­na­ment.