Joshua James re­turned to To­ba­go as a Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) cham­pi­on and the toast of Whim.

This morn­ing, when I was told Sean Roach passed away, I replied, “Who, Sean Roach?”—even though I knew ex­act­ly which Sean Roach they meant. For what seemed like an eter­ni­ty, I kept re­peat­ing, “Nah! No! Nah man! You ly­ing!”

DUBAI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – West In­dies Women’s cap­tain Hay­ley Matthews has achieved ca­reer-best rank­ings in the ICC’s Women’s ODI bat­ting and all-rounder rank­ings fol­low­ing her im­pres­sive per­for­mance in the just con­clud­ed se­ries against Zim­bab­we Women.

A lone strike from Glo­ria Hen­ry earned joint na­tion­al Sec­ondary School Girls Foot­ball League ‘Big Five’ win­ners Sig­nal Hill Sec­ondary a 1-0 win over long­time ri­val Scar­bor­ough Sec­ondary in the To­ba­go Zone Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion on Sun­day.

LUC­KNOW – In­dia cap­tain Shreyas Iy­er man­han­dled West In­dies’ bowlers on his way to a scin­til­lat­ing, un­beat­en maid­en T20I cen­tu­ry that lift­ed his side to a com­mand­ing eight-wick­et win in their open­er in In­dia on Tues­day.

DUBAI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – Both West In­dies and In­dia were pe­nalised by the In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil (ICC) for their slow over rates in the third and fi­nal One Day In­ter­na­tion­al on Sat­ur­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) ad­min­is­tra­tion is be­ing blamed for the coun­try’s dis­ap­point­ing de­mo­tion from League A to League B in the CON­CA­CAF re­gion on Sun­day (Oc­to­ber 4).

Un­beat­en St Mary’s Col­lege will de­fend their lead at the top of the 17-team Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) Boys Pre­mier Di­vi­sion when they trav­el to Mu­cu­rapo Road, St. James, to face North Zone ri­val and for­mer cham­pi­ons Fa­ti­ma Col­lege in a cru­cial Round Sev­en en­counter on Wednes­day (Oc­to­ber 7).

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Bar­ba­dos kept their un­beat­en streak alive, while Bonaire fi­nal­ly se­cured their first win in League B ac­tion when the CON­CA­CAF Na­tions League con­tin­ued on Mon­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Olympic Com­mit­tee (TTOC) is mourn­ing the loss of Sean Roach, a com­mit­ted sup­port­er of na­tion­al ath­letes and Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of Langston Roach In­dus­tries Lim­it­ed, who passed away on Mon­day morn­ing at the age of 46.

Af­ter the third ODI in New Chandi­garh, West In­dies head coach Daren Sam­my be­gan his press con­fer­ence with an apol­o­gy: “I know you guys spoke to me yes­ter­day (Fri­day, Oc­to­ber 2), but the skip­per is a bit tired. He was in the field for 98.2 overs. So I had to fill in for him.”

LUC­KNOW, In­dia – Vet­er­an West In­dies spin­ner Akeal Ho­sein has re­vealed that the use of da­ta will be key for their bowlers in the up­com­ing five-match T20I se­ries against In­dia’s pow­er­ful bat­ting line­up.