DURHAM, Eng­land, Jun 6, CMC – Jos But­tler’s sparkling half cen­tu­ry cou­pled with Liam Daw­son’s de­struc­tive spell of spin bowl­ing car­ried Eng­land to a dom­i­nant 21-run vic­to­ry over West In­dies in the first T20I on Fri­day.

GROS ISLET ,– South Africa ‘A’ pre­dictably romped to vic­to­ry over West In­dies ‘A’ in the first un­of­fi­cial ‘Test’ here at the Daren Sam­my Na­tion­al Crick­et Sta­di­um in St Lu­cia on Wednes­day.

LEICES­TER – For the sec­ond straight match open­ers Amy Jones and Tam­my Beau­mont both scored cen­turies and Eng­land Women pre­dictably de­feat­ed a West In­dies Women’s side miss­ing their in­spi­ra­tional cap­tain Hay­ley Matthews by 143 runs in the sec­ond One Day In­ter­na­tion­al at Grace Road in Eng­land on Wednes­day.

ST LOUIS – Al­ly Sent­nor and Lynn Biyen­do­lo both scored braces to lead the Unit­ed States Women’s Na­tion­al Team (USWNT) to a 4-0 vic­to­ry over Ja­maica’s Reg­gae Girlz in their in­ter­na­tion­al friend­ly at En­er­giz­er Park in the Unit­ed State­son Tues­day.

For­mer So­ca War­riors coach An­gus Eve led Montser­rat to a 1-0 win over Be­lize in their Group D Sec­ond Round Con­ca­caf World Cup qual­i­fi­er at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Bal­main, Cou­va, on Wednes­day.

Crick­et­ing icon Bri­an Lara has thrown his full sup­port be­hind his two life­long friends, Dwight Yorke and Rus­sell Lat­apy, as they bid to bring glo­ry to Trinidad and To­ba­go’s at­tempt to qual­i­fy for next year’s FI­FA World Cup in Cana­da, Mex­i­co and the Unit­ed States.

T&T So­ca War­riors strik­er Levi Gar­ca of Russ­ian club Spar­tak Moscow says he is ready to de­liv­er in big games for T&T as this coun­try pre­pares for the re­sump­tion of their 2026 Con­ca­caf World Cup qual­i­fiers.

ST JOHN’S – For­mer West In­dies wick­et­keep­er/bats­man Jah­mar Hamil­ton lashed a quick­fire half-cen­tu­ry as An­guil­la de­feat­ed An­tigua & Bar­bu­da by 11 runs in a thrilling en­counter in the Lee­ward Is­lands T20 Crick­et Fes­ti­val (LIT20) in An­tigua on Tues­day.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Fast bowler Alzarri Joseph and star all-rounder Hay­ley Matthews head a list of nom­i­nees for the up­com­ing Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) and West In­dies Play­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (WIPA) eighth Awards Gala.

T&T So­ca War­riors coach Dwight Yorke will be go­ing all out to se­cure three points when they host St Kitts & Nevis in their penul­ti­mate Sec­ond Round Con­ca­caf World Cup Group B qual­i­fi­er at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo on Fri­day from 7.30 pm.

Ah, Sun­day! My sa­cred day for be­com­ing one with the so­fa, per­fect­ly po­si­tioned for max­i­mum sports ab­sorp­tion. This past Sun­day, how­ev­er, was less about bliss­ful re­lax­ation and more about brac­ing for im­pact. Could the West In­dies, af­ter their rather en­thu­si­as­tic ca­pit­u­la­tion in the first One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI), pos­si­bly pull off a vic­to­ry against Eng­land?

Austin Hug­gins, coach of the St Kitts & Nevis na­tion­al men's foot­ball team says his team's game plan against T&T "So­ca War­riors" in their sec­ond round Con­ca­caf World Cup Group B qual­i­fi­er at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo, from 7.30 pm, is to win.