POTCHEF­STROOM – West In­dies Women Ris­ing Stars fin­ished their cam­paign at the in­au­gur­al ICC Un­der-19 Women’s Twen­ty20 World Cup with a heavy de­feat, when Eng­land whipped them by 95 runs.

For­mer West In­dies and T&T's bat­ting leg­end and cap­tain Bri­an Lara has agreed to take on a role as 'per­for­mance men­tor' with the West In­dies teams and acad­e­my, Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) an­nounced on Thurs­day.

T&T's re­gion­al crick­eters will open their 2023 re­gion­al first-class cam­paign against the Wind­ward Is­lands at the Grena­da Na­tion­al Sta­di­um, Grena­da, on Feb­ru­ary 1, when the four-day sea­son bowls off.

EAST LON­DON – West In­dies Women’s de­press­ing los­ing streak showed no signs of end­ing as the luck­less Caribbean side crashed to a 10-wick­et de­feat to South Africa Women in their third match of the Twen­ty20 In­ter­na­tion­al Tri-Se­ries in South Africa on Wednes­day.

Ski­er James Gat­cliffe placed 36th in the slalom at the 42nd In­ter­na­tion­al Ski and Snow­board Fed­er­a­tion (FIS) Alpine Ju­nior World Ski Cham­pi­onships in St An­ton am Arl­berg, Aus­tria, on Wednes­day.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Out-of-favour Test glove­man Shane Dowrich has been ap­point­ed cap­tain for Bar­ba­dos Pride’s open­ing two match­es of the re­gion­al first class cham­pi­onship.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) has con­grat­u­lat­ed the play­ers named in the In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil’s (ICC) Teams of the Year for 2022.

Lo­cal rac­ing re­turns to San­ta Rosa Park in Ari­ma for the first time this year. The open­ing day will be run off on Sat­ur­day where there will be sev­en races. The fea­ture event will be the NL­CB Sian's Gold Sprint which is one of three events on the turf track with four oth­er events on the main track.

Pres­i­dent of the T&T Su­per League (TTSL) Lee Davis has re­signed his post, along with his first vice pres­i­dent Ed­di­son Dean and sec­ond vice pres­i­dent An­dre Bernard, in the midst of ac­cu­sa­tions by the mem­ber­ship that they were not be­ing rep­re­sent­ed.

The five fran­chis­es for the in­au­gur­al Women's Pre­mier League in In­dia have re­port­ed­ly been sold for £465 mil­lion (US$574.9 mil­lion).

CAPE TOWN – Odean Smith and Jofra Archer found them­selves among the wick­ets but both failed with the bat when runs were need­ed, as MI Cape Town slumped to their fourth de­feat in sev­en out­ings with a 52-run loss to Pre­to­ria Cap­i­tals in South Africa on Mon­day.

West In­dies cap­tain Kraigg Brath­waite has been named in the ICC’s Men’s Test Team of the Year. The team in­cludes 11 play­ers who pro­duced re­mark­able re­turns in the 2022 cal­en­dar year, with ei­ther bat, ball or their all-round tal­ents.