DUBAI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates—Fol­low­ing a dis­ap­point­ing per­for­mance in their just con­clud­ed T20I se­ries against Afghanistan, stand-in West In­dies cap­tain Bran­don King has ad­mit­ted that the re­gion­al team needs to make ma­jor im­prove­ments ahead of next month’s ICC Men’s T20 World Cup.

In my last col­umn, I al­lowed my­self a mo­ment of op­ti­mism re­gard­ing the West In­dies Un­der-19 team com­pet­ing in the In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil (ICC) Un­der-19 World Cup.

Since mak­ing her West In­dies de­but as a teenag­er in 2014, Bar­ba­di­an all-rounder Hay­ley Matthews has hard­ly had a break.

DUBAI – Dar­wish Ra­sooli starred with the bat for the sec­ond straight match, while off-spin­ner Mu­jeeb Ur Rah­man bam­boo­zled West In­dies’ bats­men as Afghanistan sealed the T20I se­ries with a com­fort­able 39-run win in the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates on Wednes­day.

KINGSTOWN, St Vin­cent – Ja­maica Women played spoil­er in the fi­nal pre­lim­i­nary round of the T20 Blaze, de­feat­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go Women by three wick­ets via the Duck­worth/Lewis/Stern method to end any hopes they had of qual­i­fy­ing for Fri­day’s fi­nal.

KINGSTOWN – Aaliyah Al­leyne played a star­ring role with both bat and ball to car­ry Bar­ba­dos Women in­to the fi­nal of the T20 Blaze with a re­sound­ing 22-run vic­to­ry over de­fend­ing champs Guyana Women in St Vin­cent on Wednes­day.

The Court of Ap­peal will take the next few months to con­sid­er an ap­peal re­lat­ed to the T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB) elec­tions in 2019. 

CARDIFF, Wales – In a sto­ry of her­itage, re­silience, and sport­ing re­birth, for­mer Great Britain bob­sleigh star Mi­ca Moore will race on­to the Olympic stage next month wear­ing the colours of Ja­maica.

​​Skip­per Bren­dan Boodoo’s man-of-the-match per­for­mance with both bat and ball led host Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege San Fer­nan­do (San­do) to a 38-run vic­to­ry over ri­val Na­pari­ma Col­lege at Lewis Street, Tues­day.

DUBAI – In the af­ter­glow of a hard-fought but ul­ti­mate­ly dis­ap­point­ing open­ing T20 In­ter­na­tion­al against Afghanistan in the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates, the West In­dies camp found a sil­ver lin­ing in the com­posed de­but of young bats­man Quentin Samp­son.

The 2026 edi­tion of the Bri­an Lewis-in­spired and or­gan­ised T&T Olympic Com­mit­tee (TTOC) Gold Foun­da­tion Marathon Chal­lenge Walk for ath­letes, stepped off at 2 am on Sun­day (Jan­u­ary 18). Start­ing from Freeport in Cen­tral Trinidad, the event fea­tured over 115 walk­ers. The fact that some late reg­is­trants were un­able to par­tic­i­pate sug­gests a grow­ing in­ter­est in the cause across the coun­try.

KINGSTOWN – A dis­ci­plined bowl­ing ef­fort fol­lowed by a com­posed chase led by vet­er­an Stafanie Tay­lor saw Ja­maica Women pick up their first win in the T20 Blaze, de­feat­ing Wind­ward Is­lands Women by sev­en wick­ets at the Arnos Vale Play­ing Field in St Vin­cent on Mon­day.