Dubai, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates West In­dies Women bowed out of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in heart­break­ing fash­ion when they went down by eight runs to New Zealand in the sec­ond semi­fi­nal on Fri­day at the Shar­jah Crick­et Sta­di­um.

To­ba­go all­rounder Joshua James has been giv­en his first call-up by reign­ing cham­pi­ons Trinidad and To­ba­go Red Force team for the up­com­ing Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Su­per 50 tour­na­ment in Trinidad and To­ba­go from Oc­to­ber 29 to No­vem­ber 23, 2024.

SHAR­JAH, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – Eight years ago, the West In­dies edged out New Zealand by just six runs in a thrilling sec­ond semi­fi­nal of the 2016 T20 World Cup, book­ing their spot in the fi­nal. They went on to claim their maid­en World T20 ti­tle with a vic­to­ry over Aus­tralia.

DAMBUL­LA, Sri Lan­ka – Debu­tant Dunith Wellalage led an im­pres­sive bowl­ing dis­play by Sri Lan­ka’s spin­ners in an ab­solute­ly dom­i­nant 73-run win over the West In­dies in the sec­ond T20 in­ter­na­tion­al on Tues­day at the Ran­giri Dambul­la In­ter­na­tion­al Sta­di­um.

DUBAI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates—West In­dies Women’s cap­tain Hay­ley Matthews says her team­mates showed tremen­dous heart and grit in de­feat­ing Eng­land to qual­i­fy for the semi­fi­nals of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup on Tues­day.

For­mer T&T in­ter­na­tion­al foot­baller now turn coach Dwight Yorke and Derek King, the cur­rent in­ter­im coach of the se­nior men’s So­ca War­riors team, have been con­firmed in a short­list of five coach­es for the head coach job of the coun­try’s se­nior na­tion­al men’s team. 

"It's a great feel­ing to main­tain our po­si­tion in the A League of the Con­ca­caf Na­tions League. What we saw to­day, es­pe­cial­ly in the first half, was a hun­gry team and a team that want­ed these three points. And we went out there and played some good foot­ball. In the first half alone, we could have been about five goals up, but that's foot­ball; goals win match­es." 

Dubai, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates West In­dies Women saved their best per­for­mance of the 2024 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup for when it mat­tered most, in a clin­i­cal six-wick­et vic­to­ry over Eng­land Women that saw them progress to the semi­fi­nal round on Tues­day.

The top­ic for to­day’s Things That Mat­ter col­umn is the Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) T20 con­tract with the Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL). A con­tract that al­leged­ly gives CPL a near to­tal stran­gle­hold on the lu­cra­tive T20 crick­et for­mat here in the Caribbean. 

Dubai, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – West In­dies Women’s head coach, Shane Deitz, be­lieves that all the pres­sure will be on favourites Eng­land when they clash on Tues­day in their cru­cial Group B match of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup.

DAMBUL­LA, Sri Lan­ka – West In­dies T20 vice-cap­tain Ros­ton Chase is aim­ing for a 3-0 se­ries sweep over Sri Lan­ka in their cur­rent T20 se­ries, which he said would go a long way in help­ing the Caribbean-side re­claim the num­ber one spot in the ICC’s Men’s T20I rank­ings by the end of 2024.

Open­ers Bran­don King and Evin Lewis blast 107 runs off 55 balls to set up the West In­dies in the chase to get 180 runs in the first T20I against Sri Lan­ka at the Ran­giri Dambul­la In­ter­na­tion­al Sta­di­um on Sun­day.