TAROU­BA – Their bowlers, led by Pre­ston Mc­Sween and Lar­ry Ed­ward, set it up, and their bats­men for­malised a six-wick­et win for Wind­ward Is­lands Vol­ca­noes against Lee­ward Is­lands Hur­ri­canes in the West In­dies Cham­pi­onship on Sat­ur­day at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my, San Fer­nan­do.

CEN­TU­RI­ON, South Africa – John­son Charles slammed a re­mark­able sec­ond Twen­ty20 In­ter­na­tion­al hun­dred to pro­pel West In­dies to their high­est-ever T20I to­tal but South Africa made a mock­ery of the tar­get by com­plet­ing the high­est-ever suc­cess­ful run chase T20Is, to pull off an as­ton­ish­ing six-wick­et win on Sun­day.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Dr Kishore Shal­low and Az­im Bas­sarath have been elect­ed to the posts of Pres­i­dent and Vice Pres­i­dent re­spec­tive­ly, of Crick­et West In­dies (CWI). They will serve two-year terms.

T&T men and women’s teams failed in their bid to se­cure this coun­try’s first medal on Fri­day’s penul­ti­mate day of com­pe­ti­tion at the 63rd Caribbean Re­gion­al Ta­ble Ten­nis Fed­er­a­tion Se­nior Cham­pi­onship at the Na­tion­al Gym­na­si­um in George­town, Guyana.

PRE­TO­RIA – New West In­dies Twen­ty20 In­ter­na­tion­al cap­tain Rov­man Pow­ell start­ed his reign with a bang on Sat­ur­day when he dragged his side to a three-wick­et win against South Africa and gave them a 1-0 lead in their three-match se­ries.

New­com­ers to the Na­tion­al Pool League (NPL), the Nu­bian Kings edged the Ti­tans three games to two when they met on Wednes­day in round two of the NPL 8 Ball Pre­mier Di­vi­sion at Gold­en Arch­es II in Curepe.

Kea­gan Sim­mons used his omis­sion from the T&T Red Force team, which is cur­rent­ly in a bat­tle against Bar­ba­dos Pride, as mo­ti­va­tion, as he slammed 108 for Cen­tral Sports away to Clarke Road in the fi­nal round of the T&T Crick­et Board Pre­mier­ship Di­vi­sion I, Fri­day.

The top-ranked pair of Anand Narayns­ingh and Narad Ram­s­ingh bat­tled past sec­ond-ranked Cliff Meade and Raf­feek Mo­hammed to lift the Men’s Dou­bles 60 Age-Group ti­tle when the Steve Thomas In­ter­na­tion­al Ten­nis Fed­er­a­tion (ITF) Mas­ters Tour­na­ment con­tin­ued at Na­tion­al Rac­quet Cen­tre, Or­ange Grove Main Road, Tacarigua on Sat­ur­day.

A thun­der­ous strike from de­fend­er Ka­reem Moses, cou­pled with two care­ful­ly craft­ed goals from cap­tain Jo­evin Jones and Ryan Telfer, guid­ed the T&T So­ca War­riors to a com­fort­able 3-0 win over the Ba­hamas in their penul­ti­mate match in Group C of the CON­CA­CAF Na­tions League Friday at the Thomas A Robin­son Sta­di­um in Nas­sau, Ba­hamas.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Eng­land-based for­wards Ro­maine Sawyers and Har­ry Panayiotou both scored as St Kitts and Nevis brushed aside Saint Mar­tin 3-1 to take sole pos­ses­sion of the lead in their group in the CON­CA­CAF Na­tions League.

For­mer na­tion­al women's vol­ley­baller Sinead Jack-Kisal was one of three play­ers in dou­ble-fig­ure scor­ing as Eczacibasi Dy­nav­it Is­tan­bul bat­tled past De­vel­o­pres Rzes­zow in five sets (3-2) in their 2022/2023 Women’s Eu­ro­pean Cham­pi­ons League Vol­ley­ball quar­ter­fi­nal sec­ond-leg to book a spot in the fi­nal four on Thurs­day.

CEN­TU­RI­ON – West In­dies will hope to sal­vage some­thing from the tour of South Africa when they face the hosts in the open­ing Twen­ty20 In­ter­na­tion­al of the three-match se­ries in South Africa on Sat­ur­day.