KINGSTON, Ja­maica – West In­dies cap­tain Ke­iron Pol­lard has put most of the blame for the 2-1 One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) se­ries de­feat to Ire­land on the Caribbean side’s bats­men.

T&T in­ter­na­tion­al Saman­tha Wal­lace, on her 28th birth­day, was gift­ed the top play­er ho­n­our, the Jean Pierre Ath­lete Award, at the T&T Net­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNA) vir­tu­al an­nu­al awards cer­e­mo­ny themed "Be­lieve For It" on Sun­day.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – Cap­tain Kieron Pol­lard has de­scribed Sun­day’s se­ries de­feat to Ire­land as a “bit­ter pill to swal­low” and has warned there will be no quick fix to the is­sues plagu­ing the em­bat­tled one-day side.

Na­tion­al ath­lete Por­tious War­ren's first meet of the sea­son is sched­uled for the week­end of Feb­ru­ary 10-11 but at present, she has a slim chance of throw­ing the iron ball at her sea­son open­er, the Tyson Re­lays in Fayet­teville, Arkansas, USA, as fi­nan­cial sup­port re­mains non-ex­is­tent for the T&T shot put­ter.

It will be a dif­fi­cult but much-need­ed chal­lenge for this coun­try's se­nior na­tion­al foot­ballers against Bo­livia on Fri­day's at the Es­ta­dio Olimpi­co Pa­trio in Su­cre.

BAS­SETERRE, St Kitts – Shi­va Sankar’s new-ball burst rat­tled Scot­land Un­der-19s and laid the foun­da­tion for West In­dies Un­der-19s’ cru­cial sev­en-wick­et win in their sec­ond match of the ICC Un­der-19 World Cup on Mon­day.

The re­tire­ment of Vi­rat Kohli as In­dia’s Test cap­tain at the con­clu­sion of the re­cent Test se­ries against South Africa (SA) which In­dia (Ind) lost 1-2 has so­licit­ed mixed re­ac­tions from past and present crick­eters across the crick­et­ing world. The re­spons­es have re­flect­ed both shock and at the same time have been fraught with plau­dits and ac­co­lades.

KINGSTON – Min­nows Ire­land sur­vived a low­er or­der wob­ble to beat West In­dies for on­ly the third time in a One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al when they stunned them by two wick­ets in Ja­maica on Sun­day, to al­so claim their first-ever se­ries win over the Caribbean side.

In­dia bat­tled to a hard-fought heavy­weight tri­umph over South Africa as the ICC Un­der-19 Men’s Crick­et World Cup en­tered full swing on Sat­ur­day.

Own­er Jer­ry Narace has called time on the sev­en-year-old thor­ough­bred Gen­er­al JN’s rac­ing ca­reer and the cham­pi­on race­horse will now be em­bark­ing on a new jour­ney as a Stal­lion. The Glenn Mendez-trained Gen­er­al JN will move to Bar­ba­dos to stand at Glen Fru­in Farm for the new chap­ter in his life.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – West In­dies vice-cap­tain Shai Hope says the team needs to find the right for­mu­la to cope with the dou­ble chal­lenge of un­favourable wick­et con­di­tions and a pen­e­tra­ble Irish bowl­ing at­tack in Sun­day’s de­cider in the One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) se­ries against Ire­land.

Imag­ine start­ing yet an­oth­er year not know­ing if you are go­ing to have a sea­son to look for­ward to with your team.