An­der­son Ma­hase snared four wick­ets be­fore Kofi James blast­ed an un­beat­en half cen­tu­ry as the Lee­ward Is­lands Thun­der de­mol­ished the Wind­ward Is­lands In­fer­nos by eight wick­ets in their Elim­i­na­tor match here at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba on Fri­day.

Yaoshang is de­rived from two words, Yaong and Shang, mean­ing “hut” or “tem­po­rary shel­ter.” This term holds his­tor­i­cal sig­nif­i­cance, as it is be­lieved to be as­so­ci­at­ed with the birth of Nong­da Lairen Pakhang­ba, the first ruler of the Ma­nipuri king­dom in In­dia. To ho­n­our this his­tor­i­cal and cul­tur­al sig­nif­i­cance, the peo­ple of Ma­nipur burn a sym­bol­ic hut made of bam­boo and rice straw dur­ing the month of Lam­ta (Feb­ru­ary-March), the full moon day of the Meit­ei lu­nar cal­en­dar. This marks the com­mence­ment of the five-day Yaoshang fes­ti­val.

Pres­i­dent of the T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB), Az­im Bas­sarath, said he sees no rea­son for him­self or any mem­ber of staff to re­sign af­ter the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) raid­ed the TTCB’s of­fice in Cou­va on Thurs­day morn­ing.

This past week, I had the ho­n­our of rep­re­sent­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go and the Caribbean as the lone non-UE­FA par­tic­i­pant se­lect­ed for the UE­FA Strate­gic Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Com­pact Course, held at UE­FA head­quar­ters in Ny­on, Switzer­land.

Sports psy­chol­o­gy plays a vi­tal role in the de­vel­op­ment of young ath­letes, as­sist­ing them in en­hanc­ing their men­tal tough­ness, boost­ing their per­for­mance, and equip­ping them for long-last­ing achieve­ment.

Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Di­rec­tor of Crick­et Miles Bas­combe met with ter­ri­to­r­i­al tal­ent iden­ti­fiers dur­ing the re­cent­ly con­clud­ed West In­dies Break­out League in T&T.

The four-woman team of Kayan­na May­ers, Rayann Shep­pard, Tyra Titte and Anaya Pope, rid­ing for the Rigtech Son­ics, sprint­ed to the gold medal and the na­tion­al ti­tle on Wednes­day (May 7) when the T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion held its Na­tion­al Track Cy­cling Cham­pi­onships at the Na­tion­al Cy­cling Cen­tre in Bal­main, Cou­va.

Mis­cel­la­neous Po­lice and San Juan Jabloteh strength­ened their po­si­tions for a spot in ei­ther the Con­ca­caf Caribbean Cup or the Con­ca­caf Caribbean Shield for the re­spec­tive sec­ond-placed and third-placed teams in Tier 1 of the T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League (TTPFL), with vic­to­ries when ac­tion re­sumed on Fri­day at the Phase II Recre­ation Ground in La Hor­quet­ta.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) pres­i­dent, Dr Kishore Shal­low has re­vealed that with­in the next week a new West In­dies Test cap­tain will be named.

KINGSTOWN, St Vin­cent – The Lee­ward Is­lands Women se­cured a com­mand­ing 36-run vic­to­ry over Trinidad and To­ba­go Women in the 13th match of the Women’s T20 Blaze at Arnos Vale Play­ing Field on Fri­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) con­firms that it raid­ed the T&T Crick­et Board head­quar­ters in Bal­main, Cou­va, on Thurs­day morn­ing and seized a sub­stan­tial quan­ti­ty of doc­u­ments, be­lieved to be ev­i­dence, dur­ing its op­er­a­tion and in the pres­ence of the TTCB pres­i­dent Az­im Bas­sarath and oth­er of­fice staff.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua– For­mer Trinidad and To­ba­go and West In­dies crick­eter Ham­mond Al­lan Fur­longe has been hailed by Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) for his con­tri­bu­tion to crick­et in the re­gion.