MUM­BAI, In­dia – In a pul­sat­ing high-scor­ing semi­fi­nal en­counter at the Wankhede Sta­di­um, Bar­ba­di­an-born Ja­cob Bethell’s as­ton­ish­ing 105 from 48 balls proved just short of mirac­u­lous as Eng­land fell just sev­en runs short of a record-break­ing chase, hand­ing In­dia a nerve-shred­ding vic­to­ry and a place in the T20 World Cup fi­nal on Thurs­day.

Re­gret­tably, the West In­dies were knocked out of the ICC’s Men's T20 World Cup at the Su­per 8 stage by In­dia. While the West In­dies fell to In­dia, they did so play­ing the most in­spired crick­et we’ve seen from the is­lands in a gen­er­a­tion — no­ble, high-stakes, and ul­ti­mate­ly un­done by a sin­gle, un­stop­pable force.

Dwight Yorke's tenure as Trinidad and To­ba­go se­nior men's foot­ball head coach has come to an end. This was con­firmed via a Trinidad and To­ba­go Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion me­dia re­lease on Thurs­day af­ter­noon, which stat­ed that Yorke's con­tract was ter­mi­nat­ed by mu­tu­al agree­ment af­ter dis­cus­sions were held be­tween the TTFA and Yorke re­gard­ing the fu­ture of the role, in­clud­ing re­vised con­trac­tu­al terms and re­mu­ner­a­tion aligned to the next phase of the pro­gramme. .

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – In a land­mark move for do­mes­tic crick­et in the re­gion, the Bar­ba­dos Crick­et As­so­ci­a­tion (BCA) has con­firmed that elite-lev­el crick­eters par­tic­i­pat­ing in the up­com­ing three-day com­pe­ti­tion will re­ceive pay­ment for their ser­vices.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s se­nior women’s team showed im­mense heart on Wednes­day night, fight­ing back from two goals down to earn a gut­sy 2-2 draw against Hon­duras at the Es­ta­dio Chela­to Uclés in ​Tegu­ci­gal­pa .

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – The cur­tain has fall­en on the West In­dies’ cam­paign at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, and back home in the Caribbean, the as­sess­ment of the team’s show­ing is prov­ing to be a clas­sic case of good cop, bad cop.

Ari­ma North Sec­ondary emerged as the big win­ner on Mon­day (March 2) as the Trinidad and To­ba­go Sec­ondary Schools Bas­ket­ball League (TTSS­BL) ac­tion in­ten­si­fied at the Mal­oney In­door Sports Are­na.

HAMP­SHIRE, Eng­land – Hamp­shire have been forced in­to a late change of their over­seas per­son­nel for the start of the Coun­ty Cham­pi­onship sea­son, with West In­dies fast bowler Jay­den Seales draft­ed in to re­place the new­ly-crowned Ash­es hero Michael Neser.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – West In­dies fast bowler Alzarri Joseph and body­builder Melis­sa Seaforth took home the cov­et­ed awards of Se­nior Sports­man and Se­nior Sports­woman, re­spec­tive­ly, when the An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Na­tion­al Sports Awards were held over the week­end.

A char­ter flight is cur­rent­ly be­ing arranged to trans­port the West In­dies se­nior men's T20 crick­et team safe­ly out of In­dia, where it has been strand­ed since Mon­day's de­feat against In­dia in a Su­per 8s match, con­firm­ing their ex­it from the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup.

And yes, it is the Lenten sea­son and there­fore Chris­tians should un­der­stand its sig­nif­i­cance. Sim­i­lar­ly, all should un­der­stand the need to keep the in­ter­ests of every­one by not hav­ing ex­tra-long an­nounce­ments at the end of a Sun­day Mass.

MI­A­MI, Flori­da – CON­CA­CAF has tak­en the de­ci­sion to dis­qual­i­fy both Guyana and An­guil­la from its Un­der-20 Qual­i­fiers af­ter a brawl broke out be­tween mem­bers from both sides dur­ing their clash on Sat­ur­day.