Trinidad and To­ba­go Le­gions cre­at­ed his­to­ry on Sat­ur­day by cap­tur­ing the in­au­gur­al West In­dies Break­out League with an ex­cit­ing 17-run win over the Lee­ward Is­lands Thun­der.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Pres­i­dent of Crick­et West In­dies (CWI), Dr Kishore Shal­low is not fazed by the re­cent move by Guyana Harpy Ea­gles’ play­ers Veerasam­my Per­maul and Kevlon An­der­son to take them to court over ball tam­per­ing charges.

Nathan Cum­ber­batch rewrote the na­tion­al men’s 1,500-me­tre record when he clocked three min­utes and 43.55 sec­onds (3:43.55) on his way to vic­to­ry at the Uni­ver­si­ty of South Cal­i­for­nia (USC) ver­sus Uni­veristy of Cal­i­for­nia-Los An­ge­les (UCLA) dual meet in Los An­ge­les, Cal­i­for­nia on May 4.

ST JOHN’S – Gen­er­al sec­re­tary of the An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (AB­FA), Ro­han Hec­tor has made it clear he is not fac­ing any firearm charges fol­low­ing re­ports that a man bear­ing a sim­i­lar name ap­peared in court in An­tigua on Wednes­day.

Im­ran Khan got nine wick­ets for Cen­tral Sports, and Evin Lewis slammed a cen­tu­ry as cham­pi­ons Cen­tral Sports and Bess Mo­tors Marchin Pa­tri­ots both scored out­right vic­to­ries to take the Trinidad and To­ba­go Crick­et Board Pre­mier Di­vi­sion I ti­tle race down to the wire when they meet next week in Fe­lic­i­ty in the fi­nal round of match­es to de­cide which team will cel­e­brate as the 2025 cham­pi­on.

Con­ca­caf Pres­i­dent Vic­tor Mon­tagliani said the base has been set for the re­vi­tal­i­sa­tion of foot­ball in T&T un­der new pres­i­dent Kieron Ed­wards and his ex­ec­u­tive team.

T&T jock­eys con­tin­ued their great run at Hast­ings Race­course in Van­cou­ver, Cana­da, on Sat­ur­day.

MAN­CHES­TER – De­spite miss­ing a large chunk of the sea­son due to in­jury, Ja­maican and Man­ches­ter City for­ward Khadi­ja ‘Bun­ny’ Shaw has fin­ished tied for the most goals in the Women’s Su­per League (WSL) in Eng­land.

An­der­son Ma­hase snared four wick­ets be­fore Kofi James blast­ed an un­beat­en half cen­tu­ry as the Lee­ward Is­lands Thun­der de­mol­ished the Wind­ward Is­lands In­fer­nos by eight wick­ets in their Elim­i­na­tor match here at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba on Fri­day.

Mis­cel­la­neous Po­lice and San Juan Jabloteh strength­ened their po­si­tions for a spot in ei­ther the Con­ca­caf Caribbean Cup or the Con­ca­caf Caribbean Shield for the re­spec­tive sec­ond-placed and third-placed teams in Tier 1 of the T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League (TTPFL), with vic­to­ries when ac­tion re­sumed on Fri­day at the Phase II Recre­ation Ground in La Hor­quet­ta.

Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Di­rec­tor of Crick­et Miles Bas­combe met with ter­ri­to­r­i­al tal­ent iden­ti­fiers dur­ing the re­cent­ly con­clud­ed West In­dies Break­out League in T&T.

Yaoshang is de­rived from two words, Yaong and Shang, mean­ing “hut” or “tem­po­rary shel­ter.” This term holds his­tor­i­cal sig­nif­i­cance, as it is be­lieved to be as­so­ci­at­ed with the birth of Nong­da Lairen Pakhang­ba, the first ruler of the Ma­nipuri king­dom in In­dia. To ho­n­our this his­tor­i­cal and cul­tur­al sig­nif­i­cance, the peo­ple of Ma­nipur burn a sym­bol­ic hut made of bam­boo and rice straw dur­ing the month of Lam­ta (Feb­ru­ary-March), the full moon day of the Meit­ei lu­nar cal­en­dar. This marks the com­mence­ment of the five-day Yaoshang fes­ti­val.