KINGSTON, Ja­maica — Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of Crick­et West In­dies (CWI), Chris Dehring, met with Ja­maica’s Sports Min­is­ter Olivia ‘Bab­sy’ Grange, on Mon­day (April 7), as part of his on­go­ing en­gage­ment with re­gion­al stake­hold­ers.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Aaron Raghoo­nanan etched his name in­to the his­to­ry books yet again by win­ning the Dutch Caribbean Cham­pi­onship, which was held at Jong Bonaire com­mu­ni­ty cen­tre in Bonaire from April 3-6. Just as he did last year, Raghoo­nanan came through the tour­na­ment un­de­feat­ed, win­ning all sev­en of his match­es.

Kale Dal­la Cos­ta con­tin­ued to fly the red, white and black flag high when he bat­tled his way through to the quar­ter­fi­nals of the Boys Un­der-18 Di­vi­sion Sin­gles in the Trin­i­ty Cup In­ter­na­tion­al Ten­nis Fed­er­a­tion (ITF) Ju­nior Tour­na­ment at the Na­tion­al Rac­quet Cen­tre, Or­ange Grove Road, Tacarigua, Tues­day.

Gen­er­al sec­re­tary of the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ics Ad­min­is­tra­tions of T&T (NAAATT), Je­hue Gor­don says the board of the NAAATT was sched­uled to meet last night to rat­i­fy and se­lect this coun­try’s Carif­ta Games team for the 52nd edi­tion of the ju­nior track and field meet.

De­fend­ing cham­pi­on Make­da Bain will face off with com­pa­tri­ot Cyra Ram­cha­ran in the Girls Un­der-14 Sin­gles fi­nal of the Cen­tral Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean Ten­nis Con­fed­er­a­tion (COTECC)-Bar­ba­dos In­ter­na­tion­al U-14 Ten­nis Tour­na­ment Wednes­day.

KOLKATA – Mag­nif­i­cent half-cen­turies from West In­di­an Nicholas Pooran and Aus­tralian Mitchell Marsh helped the Luc­know Su­per Gi­ants (LSG) to a nar­row four-run win over the Kolkata Knight Rid­ers (KKR) in their thrilling In­di­an Pre­mier League clash at Eden Gar­dens on Tues­day.

Team Trinidad and To­ba­go (TTO) cy­clists yet again flew the na­tion­al flag with vi­sion, tal­ent, pa­tri­o­tism, pride and dis­tinc­tion.

Chris Richards Sr land­ed the Pro­fes­sion­al ti­tle at the Ste Madeleine Golf Open.af­ter he re­turned a score of 218 over the three days of play which took place at the Ste Madeleine Golf Course, Mama­ham­bre, Ste Madeleine from April 4-6. Richards Sr’s top fin­ish comes af­ter his sec­ond place at the pres­ti­gious T&T Golf Open in Mo­ka, Mar­aval some two weeks ago.

T&T’s Cher­dine Sylvester and Cyra Ram­cha­ran joined com­pa­tri­ot and de­fend­ing cham­pi­on Make­da Bain in the Girls Un­der-14 Sin­gles semi­fi­nals of the Cen­tral Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean Ten­nis Con­fed­er­a­tion (COTECC)-Bar­ba­dos In­ter­na­tion­al Un­der-14 Ten­nis Tour­na­ment via con­trast­ing quar­ter­fi­nal wins on Monday in Bar­ba­dos.

LA­HORE – West In­dies Women lost their fi­nal warm up match be­fore the Women’s World Cup Qual­i­fiers when they fell to Pak­istan by five wick­ets in Pak­istan on Mon­day.

BRIDGETOWN – Bar­ba­dos kicked off their ti­tle de­fence of the Jean Pierre Caribbean Youth Net­ball com­pe­ti­tion with an em­phat­ic 46-7 thump­ing of An­tigua and Bar­bu­da when ac­tion got un­der­way at the Wildey Gym­na­si­um in Bar­ba­dos on Sun­day.

CAS­TRIES, Saint Lu­cia – De­spite hav­ing not played a Test match for the West In­dies in over three years, vet­er­an crick­et com­men­ta­tor Joseph ‘Reds’ Per­reira be­lieves that ODI and T20 cap­tain Shai Hope is the best man to cap­tain the Test team.