DUBAI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – Two-time Twen­ty20 World Cup win­ner, John­son Charles and speed­ster Alzarri Joseph were among the big movers in the ICC Twen­ty20 In­ter­na­tion­al Rank­ings re­leased on Wednes­day.

France-based Ma­lik Gop­ual and Chloe Fras­er, Nicholas O’Young, and Priyan­ka Khellawan earned bronze medals af­ter los­ing their re­spec­tive Un­der-15 and Un­der-19 Mixed Dou­bles semi­fi­nals in the Caribbean Re­gion­al Ta­ble Ten­nis Fed­er­a­tion Youth (Un­der-15 & U-19) Cham­pi­onship at the Na­tion­al Gym­na­si­um in George­town, Guyana on Thurs­day.

MI­A­MI, Flori­da – Haiti and St Maarten con­firmed their pro­mo­tion sta­tus with wins against fel­low Caribbean Foot­ball Union sides, Bermu­da and the Unit­ed States Vir­gin Is­lands re­spec­tive­ly, in the Con­ca­caf Na­tions League on Tues­day.

Mon­day’s 1-1 tie with Nicaragua at the Dwight Yorke Sta­di­um in Ba­co­let, To­ba­go was a “game of nasty, dirty tac­tics” as de­scribed by na­tion­al coach An­gus Eve, that en­sured the vis­i­tors go through to League ‘A’ of the CON­CA­CAF Na­tions League as Group ‘C’ win­ner, as well as au­to­mat­ic qual­i­fi­ca­tion to the CON­CA­CAF Gold Cup, next year.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Guyana Harpy Ea­gles pac­er Rons­ford Beat­on has been sus­pend­ed from bowl­ing in the West In­dies Cham­pi­onship by Crick­et West In­dies with im­me­di­ate ef­fect.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Hosts and ta­ble lead­ers Guyana Harpy Ea­gles fought back af­ter burly Lee­ward Is­lands Hur­ri­canes off-spin­ner Rah­keem Corn­wall ripped the heart out of their bat­ting and be­came the first bowler to pass 30 wick­ets for the sea­son in the West In­dies Cham­pi­onship on Wednes­day.

JO­HAN­NES­BURG – A scin­til­lat­ing un­beat­en cameo at the back end from all-rounder Ro­mario Shep­herd and an out­stand­ing ca­reer-best five-wick­et haul by fast bowler Alzarri Joseph, com­bined to fire West In­dies to a sev­en-run vic­to­ry and their first Twen­ty20 In­ter­na­tion­al se­ries win over South Africa in near­ly a decade in South Africa on Tues­day.

As Caribbean Air­lines flight BW 458 as­cend­ed away from Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port with Cap­tain Andy Cheekes giv­ing an as­sured de­scrip­tion of the flight path to Ja­maica, the scenic and beau­ti­ful T&T, in all her ear­ly morn­ing bril­liance, was a vi­su­al re­minder of all that’s ma­jes­tic about the twin-is­land Re­pub­lic.

T&T ju­nior net­ballers had mixed re­sults in their open­ing two match­es at the Caribbean Net­ball As­so­ci­a­tion’s (CNA) Jean Pierre Youth Net­ball Cham­pi­onships in Roseau, Do­mini­ca, which start­ed on the week­end.

Track and field ath­lete Jereem “The Dream” Richards and cy­clist Te­niel Camp­bell were named the 2022 First Cit­i­zens Sports Foun­da­tion ‘Sports­man of the Year’ and ‘Sports­woman of the Year’ award re­cip­i­ents at the 60th an­nu­al awards cer­e­mo­ny themed Pass­ing the Ba­ton which was held at Movi­eTowne, Port-of-Spain, on Sun­day.

Queen’s Park com­plet­ed an in­nings and 71-run win over Ale­scon Comets at Pierre Road, Fe­lic­i­ty, but they will have to keep the cham­pagne on ice for a few more days be­cause of a protest in the T&T Crick­et Board Pre­mier­ship Di­vi­sion 1 com­pe­ti­tion.

T&T So­ca War­riors cap­tain Jo­evin Jones and his team­mates will be go­ing all out in their must-win match against Nicaragua tonight when both teams meet in their fi­nal CON­CA­CAF Na­tions League B Group C match at the Dwight Yorke Sta­di­um, Ba­co­let in To­ba­go from 8 pm.