Even af­ter a land­mark year that took him from Greece to Rus­sia in a record-break­ing move, Levi Gar­cia has not for­got­ten where his jour­ney be­gan.

CAPE TOWN – The SA20’s fourth sea­son ex­plod­ed in­to life with a bound­ary-laden thriller at a heav­ing New­lands Friday, where Dur­ban’s Su­per Gi­ants (DSG) stunned de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons MI Cape Town (MICT) by 15 runs in a tour­na­ment record shootout in South Africa.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – The hal­lowed ground of Cay­manas Park is set to wit­ness a his­toric chang­ing of the guard to­day (Dec 26) as sea­soned own­er Carl­ton Wat­son stands poised to shat­ter a 48-year-old record.

MOUNT MAUN­GANUI, New Zealand – New Zealand fast bowler Ja­cob Duffy grabbed a sen­sa­tion­al 23 wick­ets in the just con­clud­ed three-Test se­ries against West In­dies to be­come his coun­try’s high­est-ever wick­et tak­er in a cal­en­dar year.

ABU DHABI – Nicholas Pooran ham­mered an un­beat­en half cen­tu­ry and to­geth­er with Muham­mad Waseem car­ried MI Emi­rates to a con­vinc­ing eight-wick­et vic­to­ry over the strug­gling Gulf Gi­ants when the In­ter­na­tion­al League T20 con­tin­ued in the Unit­ed Aram Emi­rates on Tues­day.

Trinidad and To­ba­go cen­tre back Ko­bi Hen­ry has signed a two-year deal to play with Ma­jor League Soc­cer (MLS) team, Re­al Salt Lake.

I re­cent­ly went down a lin­guis­tic rab­bit hole to see if “cat­a­stroph­ic” is a stronger word than “dis­as­ter”. Turns out, it is.

MEL­BOURNE, Aus­tralia – Eng­land has been dealt a sig­nif­i­cant blow in an al­ready dis­ap­point­ing Ash­es se­ries, with fast bowler Jofra Archer now set to miss the fi­nal two match­es due to a side strain.

SAN JUAN – Nia Snow Clarke and Woman FIDE Mas­ter Han­nah Wil­son spear­head­ed a record-break­ing per­for­mance by Bar­ba­dos at the re­cent­ly con­clud­ed Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (CAC) Youth Chess Fes­ti­val in Puer­to Ri­co.

The lo­cal bas­ket­ball fra­ter­ni­ty is in mourn­ing fol­low­ing the pass­ing of Earl Skeete, a dec­o­rat­ed for­mer play­er, coach and Team man­ag­er who ded­i­cat­ed over four decades to the de­vel­op­ment of the sport in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

With the grand­fa­ther law in full ef­fect, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) has in­ten­si­fied its over­seas re­cruit­ment dri­ve aimed at at­tract­ing el­i­gi­ble foot­ballers to their na­tion­al teams.

DUBAI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – The In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil (ICC) on Tues­day an­nounced a ma­jor mul­ti-year glob­al part­ner­ship with Hyundai Mo­tor Com­pa­ny, wel­com­ing the glob­al au­to­mo­tive man­u­fac­tur­er as a Pre­mier Part­ner for up­com­ing ICC events.