BEN­GALARU – West In­dies all-rounder Ro­mario Shep­herd snared three cru­cial wick­ets to help de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Roy­al Chal­lengers Ben­galaru (RCB) be­gan their In­di­an Pre­mier League (IPL) cam­paign in win­ning fash­ion with a six-wick­et vic­to­ry over Sun­ris­ers Hy­der­abad on Sat­ur­day.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Di­rec­tor of Crick­et at Crick­et West In­dies (CWI), Miles Bas­combe, has no doubt that the re­gion­al team will qual­i­fy for the 2027 ICC Men’s ODI World Cup.

BAS­SETERRE, St Kitts – West In­dies Women’s bowlers will have to do a bet­ter job at con­tain­ing Aus­tralia’s ex­plo­sive bat­ting line­up if they are to stand a chance of mak­ing a come­back against them in the on­go­ing One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) se­ries.

GUADALA­JARA, Mex­i­co – Reg­gae Boyz in­ter­im head coach Rudolph Speid has called on his troops to give noth­ing less than “100 per cent” when they take on DR Con­go on Tues­day with a trip to the 2026 FI­FA World Cup on the line.

BAS­SETERRE – West In­dies Women wast­ed an im­pres­sive cen­tu­ry from vet­er­an Stafanie Tay­lor, as Aus­tralia Women’s strong show­ing with the bat pro­pelled them to a dom­i­nant 103-run vic­to­ry in the open­ing One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) in St Kitts on Fri­day.

NEW DEL­HI, In­dia –The Board of Con­trol for Crick­et in In­dia (BC­CI) un­veiled a packed home sched­ule for the 2026-27 sea­son on Thurs­day, an­nounc­ing that the In­di­an men’s team will play 22 in­ter­na­tion­al match­es across 17 venues. The ex­ten­sive sea­son will fea­ture five Tests, nine ODIs, and eight T20Is.

ST. JOHN’S, An­tigua– Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) has un­veiled a de­tailed man­age­ment plan for fast bowlers Jay­den Seales, Shamar Joseph, and Alzarri Joseph, pri­ori­tis­ing the long-term health of its pace at­tack as the re­gion braces for an un­for­giv­ing in­ter­na­tion­al cal­en­dar.

Left-hand­ed at­tack­ing bats­man, open­er Evin Lewis is back in the Trinidad and To­ba­go First Class team for the first time since 2017.

Eli­jah Corentin-Ri­ley and Li Mob­hair put on dom­i­nant dis­plays to ig­nite the Sec­ondary Schools Bas­ket­ball League (SS­BL) Na­tion­al Cham­pi­onships at the South­ern Re­gion­al In­door Sports Are­na in Pleas­antville, San Fer­nan­do, yes­ter­day.

T&T men’s in­ter­im head coach Derek King says he is bank­ing on his play­ers ex­e­cut­ing their game plan to come away with a good re­sult when they face neigh­bours Venezuela from 6 am on Fri­day in their FI­FA Se­ries open­er at Pakhtakor Sta­di­um in Tashkent, Uzbek­istan.

Na­tion­al coach Derek King in­tends to be brave in at­tack and de­fen­sive­ly or­gan­ised when his team takes on Venezuela on March 27 in his team’s open­ing match of the FI­FA Se­ries at the Pakhtakor Cen­tral Sta­di­um in Tashkent, Uzbek­istan, from 3 pm.

"I'm weary as hell; the con­fu­sion I'm feel­in' ain't no tongue can tell; the words fill my head and they fall to the floor; that if God's on our side, he'll stop the next war." ("With God on our side", Bob Dy­lan, Amer­i­can song writer)