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.

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.

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.

Bar­ba­dos Pride were clos­ing in on vic­to­ry over T&T Red Force but Test vice-cap­tain Jer­maine Black­wood was help­ing to lead a Ja­maica Scor­pi­ons fight­back against lead­ers Guyana Harpy Ea­gles, on the penul­ti­mate day of the fourth round of match­es in the West In­dies Cham­pi­onship.

Fa­ti­ma Col­lege fin­ished the 2023 North Zone bas­ket­ball sea­son in style, cap­tur­ing their third ti­tle of the sea­son go­ing un­de­feat­ed to seal the Un­der-17 ti­tle in the T&T Sec­ondary Schools Bas­ket­ball League on Thurs­day.

Fa­ti­ma Col­lege and Mu­cu­rapo East Sec­ondary will bat­tle for the North Zone boys' Un­der-17 ti­tle in the T&T Sec­ondary Schools Bas­ket­ball League at the Man­dela Park Bas­ket­ball Court in St Clair Port-of-Spain.

The Chief Com­man­der Clas­sic has been won by sev­er­al top-class hors­es over the years. This edi­tion will be con­test­ed over 1,600 me­tres on the turf track at San­ta Rosa Park, Ari­ma, on April 10.

Daron Cruick­shank scored a mas­ter­class dou­ble hun­dred in Diego Mar­tin on the week­end as he helped Pro­man Mer­ry Boys re­turn to the T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB) Pre­mier­ship I.

The trio of T&T of­fi­cials Caleb Wales, Kwin­si Williams, and Ains­ley Rochard have all been ap­point­ed as ref­er­ees or as­sis­tant ref­er­ees for the up­com­ing 2023 Con­ca­caf Na­tions League on March 28.

A ca­reer-best spell from Bar­ba­dos Pride off-spin­ner Chaim Hold­er and an un­de­feat­ed, sev­enth first-class hun­dred for re­tir­ing Guyana Harpy Ea­gles cap­tain Leon John­son marked the West In­dies Cham­pi­onship yes­ter­day.

KINGSTOWN, St Vin­cent – Crick­et West In­dies pres­i­dent des­ig­nate, Dr Kishore Shal­low said long-last­ing suc­cess on the field in the sport in the Caribbean is strong­ly linked to find­ing fi­nan­cial re­sources to fund de­vel­op­ment pro­grammes.

T&T duo Aaron Wil­son and Der­ron Dou­glas reached the quar­ter­fi­nals in the men's dou­bles at the 63rd Caribbean Re­gion­al Ta­ble Ten­nis Fed­er­a­tion Se­nior Cham­pi­onship Tues­day at the Na­tion­al Gym­na­si­um, Marce­lo Dri­ve, George­town, Guyana.