MUL­TAN, Pak­istan – Shai Hope’s 12th One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al hun­dred saw him be­come the joint third-fastest play­er to 4,000 runs in the for­mat but the mae­stro Babar Azam rained on his pa­rade, re­spond­ing with an­oth­er ex­cep­tion­al cen­tu­ry to pro­pel Pak­istan to a five-wick­et win in the se­ries open­er in Pak­istan on Wednes­day.

By the time you read this col­umn, West In­dies would have com­plet­ed their first One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) vs Pak­istan. Many crit­ics would not give this new-look West In­dies team a chance against a dan­ger­ous Pak­istan team cur­rent­ly ranked No 5 in the ICC Men’s ODI rank­ings.

BIG South East Port-of-Spain women and Zenith men were crowned cham­pi­ons of their re­spec­tive Un­der-21 Di­vi­sions when the T&T Vol­ley­ball Fed­er­a­tion (TTVF) Mac­sood Ali De­vel­op­ment Fes­ti­val fi­nal con­tin­ued at the Na­tion­al Cy­cling Cen­tre (NCC) in Bal­main, Cou­va on Tues­day night.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Vet­er­an right-han­der De­von Thomas has been called up to face Bangladesh in the first Test start­ing next week but West In­dies will be with­out rest­ed mar­quee all-rounder Ja­son Hold­er while ace new-ball seam­er Ke­mar Roach is bat­tling to be fit for the two-match se­ries.

“Sat­is­fied” is how na­tion­al foot­ball coach An­gus Eve feels about Mon­day’s 1-0 de­feat over the Ba­hamas in their Group C, League B Con­ca­caf Na­tions League at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain.

Af­ter rain washed out the first match be­tween Po­lice Sports Club and San­ta Cruz Sports As­so­ci­a­tion in the North Zone T20 tour­na­ment open­er on Sun­day, at the Diego Mar­tin Sport­ing Fa­cil­i­ty, Gleno­ra Sports Club record­ed a 39-run vic­to­ry over In­vin­ci­ble.

T&T’s men Un­der-20 squad ar­rived in San Jose, Cos­ta Ri­caon Tues­day af­ter­noon for a 10-day train­ing camp ahead of the CON­CA­CAF Men’s U-20 Cham­pi­onship in Hon­duras.

A com­mand­ing dis­play by T&T’s se­nior na­tion­al men’s team was not re­flect­ed in the score­line as the So­ca War­riors edged Ba­hamas 1-0 in their sec­ond match of the Con­ca­caf Na­tions League com­pe­ti­tion at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain on Mon­day night.

The Caribbean side swept min­nows Nether­lands 3-0 last week in Am­s­ter­dam with the likes of Shai Hope, Shamarh Brooks and Kyle May­ers all hit­ting cen­turies.

Two-time na­tion­al Olympic swim­mer, Sharn­telle McLean and coach of the T&T team for the just-con­clud­ed third Pan Am Age-Group Swim­ming which was host­ed by the Aquat­ics Sports As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (ASATT) at the Na­tion­al Aquat­ic Cen­tre in Bal­main, Cou­va and con­clud­ed on Sun­day says she is very proud of her swim­mers.

Iron­man had a free reign in the ab­sence of last year’s T&T In­ter­na­tion­al Great Race cham­pi­on Mo­tul Mon­ster and mul­ti­ple-time win­ner Mr So­lo II in the 130 mph B Class, when the Fourth Re­gat­ta took place on Sun­day.

T&T’s two-time Olympic medal­list Keshorn Wal­cott threw a sea­son’s best (sb) 89.07 me­tres to bag a bronze in the men’s javelin event at the 41st edi­tion of the FBK Games in Hen­ge­lo, Nether­lands, on Mon­day.