DUBAI, UAE – USA wick­et­keep­er-bat­ter An­dries Gous be­lieves the Exxon­Mo­bil Guyana Glob­al Su­per League (GSL) is fast be­com­ing the crown jew­el of fran­chise crick­et, liken­ing it to the icon­ic Cham­pi­ons League of years past.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Matthew Nan­du carved out a bril­liant dou­ble cen­tu­ry, while teenaged bats­man Jonathan Van Lange scored a first-class cen­tu­ry on de­but as the Guyana Harpy Ea­gles made the West In­dies Acad­e­my toil in the field on day three of their warmup match at the An­tigua Recre­ation Ground on Tues­day.

ST JOHN’S – Joshua Bish­op starred with both bat and ball on Tues­day, to spear­head an im­pres­sive fight­back by the Bar­ba­dos Pride and set up a mouth­wa­ter­ing fi­nal day of play against the Trinidad and To­ba­go Red Force on Wednes­day in their West In­dies Cham­pi­onship play­off in An­tigua at the Coolidge Crick­et Ground.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – For­mer pres­i­dent of Crick­et West In­dies (CWI), Dave Cameron has re­vealed that he is still will­ing to lend his as­sis­tance in any ca­pac­i­ty to help grow the sport in the re­gion.

Over the last few weeks, con­sid­er­able de­bate has cen­tred on the role of cor­po­rate spon­sors in the de­vel­op­ment of lo­cal sport.

T&T’s Dy­lan Carter con­tin­ued his prepa­ra­tions for the up­com­ing Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (CAC) Games with a com­fort­able win in the men’s 50m freestyle fi­nal at the Welling­ton Long Course Meet host­ed by Welling­ton Swim­ming and The Vil­lage of Welling­ton at the Welling­ton Aquat­ic Com­plex in Welling­ton, Flori­da, on Sat­ur­day, May 9.

For­mer na­tion­al Un­der-17 boys’ team coach Shawn Coop­er has failed in his bid to have his long-stand­ing pro­hi­bi­tion against coach­ing mi­nors lift­ed. 

​Curleen Lara, the lead­ing shoot­er of the Jean Pierre Caribbean Youth Net­ball Cham­pi­onships, lit up the nets to help Spar­toms edge Mal­ta Carib Sen­a­tors 34-33 in the Lystra Lewis Port-of-Spain Net­ball League (LL­POSNL) on Sat­ur­day.

BRIDGETOWN –The Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents are of­fi­cial­ly back. The Roy­als Sports Group (RSG), in a his­toric three-year deal with the Gov­ern­ment of Bar­ba­dos, has con­firmed that the beloved fran­chise will re­turn to the Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL), trad­ing the Roy­als’ colours for the na­tion’s icon­ic blue and yel­low.

ST JOHN’S – The Guyana Harpy Ea­gles warmed up for the fi­nal of the West In­dies Cham­pi­onship with a com­mand­ing vic­to­ry over the West In­dies Acad­e­my on Day 4 at the An­tigua Recre­ation Ground, tri­umph­ing by an in­nings and 21 runs to wrap up the con­test in em­phat­ic fash­ion on Wednes­day.

ST JOHN’S – Trinidad & To­ba­go Red Force’s spin duo of Khary Pierre and Bryan Charles de­liv­ered a mas­ter­class on the fi­nal day at the Coolidge Crick­et Ground in An­tigua on Wednes­day, bam­boo­zling Bar­ba­dos Pride to se­cure a re­sound­ing 140-run vic­to­ry in the West In­dies Cham­pi­onship play­off.

T&T in­ter­na­tion­als Dan­taye Gilbert and Ajani For­tune were both on tar­get for their re­spec­tive clubs with con­trast­ing re­sults.