SHAR­JAH – Bran­don King’s maid­en One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al lift­ed West In­dies to a com­fort­able sev­en-wick­et vic­to­ry over min­nows Unit­ed Emi­rates, in the open­ing game of the three-match se­ries in the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates Sun­day.

SYL­HET, Bangladesh – West In­dies A cap­tain Joshua Da Sil­va hailed his side for play­ing to their true po­ten­tial in their se­ries of three “Tests” against Bangladesh A.

Kevon ‘Show­time’ Wood­ley gave a dis­play on the field for San Juan Jabloteh on Fri­day night, scor­ing a hat-trick to guide his team to a 5-1 de­mo­li­tion of Cen­tral FC in the first Tier of the T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League at the Ari­ma Velo­drome.

For­mer West In­dies white-ball cap­tain Kieron Pol­lard and fel­low re­tired in­ter­na­tion­al all-rounder Dwayne Bra­vo are two of four es­tab­lished Twen­ty20 spe­cial­ists re­tained by four-time cham­pi­ons Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers for this year’s Caribbean Pre­mier League, start­ing in Au­gust.

LOUISVILLE – Rac­ing at Churchill Downs in the Amer­i­can state of Ken­tucky, from which ace Bar­ba­di­an train­er Saffie Joseph Jr was banned last month, will be sus­pend­ed af­ter Sun­day.

HEN­GE­LO – Trinidad & To­ba­go pair of for­mer Olympic javelin cham­pi­on Keshorn Wal­cott and sprint­er Michelle-Lee Ahye and are card­ed to make ap­pear­ances at the FBK Games on Sat­ur­day and Sun­day in Hol­land.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – West In­dies Women will be chas­ing cru­cial points to­wards World Cup qual­i­fi­ca­tion when they face Ire­land Women in three One-day In­ter­na­tion­als as part of a white-ball home se­ries from June 26 to Ju­ly 9 in St Lu­cia.

De­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Bish­op Anstey Ju­nior will look to con­tin­ue their dom­i­nance amongst co-ed­u­ca­tion­al pri­ma­ry schools as the Aquat­ics Sports As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (ASATT) Na­tion­al Pri­ma­ry Schools' Swim Meet on Sun­day (June 4) at the Cen­tre of Ex­cel­lence pool in Ma­coya, Tu­na­puna.

Aleena Ed­wards of the Uni­ver­si­ty of T&T re­tained her Women's Open cham­pi­on of the In­sur­ance Com­pa­ny of the West In­dies Sil­ver Bowl Se­nior Ta­ble Ten­nis Tour­na­ment on Sat­ur­day when she de­feat­ed her niece Imani Ed­wards in four sets to lift the ti­tle for a sec­ond time at the Na­tion­al Rac­quet Cen­tre in Tacarigua.

Ja­cob Jacelon, Jack Brown, Make­da Bain and Ab­ba Camp­bell-Smith lead the way in the Ten­nisTT's De­vel­op­ment Tri­als which is be­ing held to pick four teams to rep­re­sent T&T at the ITF/COTECC Un­der-12 Team De­vel­op­ment Cham­pi­onships at the Na­tion­al Rac­quet Cen­tre in Tacarigua.

SYL­HET, Bangladesh—West In­dies A failed in their at­tempt to fin­ish their tour on a win­ning note when in­ter­na­tion­al dis­card Mah­mudul Hasan Joy hit a de­fi­ant, fourth first-class hun­dred to earn a draw for hosts Bangladesh A in the third “Test” on Fri­day.

FLO­RENCE – Trinidad & To­ba­go sprint­er Jereem Richards was the on­ly Eng­lish-speak­ing Caribbean com­peti­tor to make it on­to the podi­um dur­ing the World Ath­let­ics Di­a­mond League meet yes­ter­day in Italy.