West In­dies women's team ar­rived in St Kitts to­day (Tues­day) ahead of the CG Unit­ed One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) and Twen­ty20 In­ter­na­tion­al (T20I) se­ries ver­sus Bangladesh.

HO­BART – Bar­ba­di­an Ja­cob Bethell blast­ed a half cen­tu­ry and took two wick­ets, but his Mel­bourne Rene­gades still lost by four wick­ets to the Hol­bart Hur­ri­canes when the Big Bash League in Aus­tralia con­tin­ued on Tues­day.

The three-man Ap­peals Com­mit­tee of the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL), com­pris­ing Rudolph Hope, Derek West, and Forbes Per­saud, had to ad­here to the rec­om­men­da­tions of the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion in ar­riv­ing at its de­ci­sion to up­hold the rul­ing of the Dis­ci­pli­nary Com­mit­tee two weeks ago, which or­dered that St Bene­dict’s Col­lege be pe­nalised 12 points for field­ing for the il­le­gal use of a play­er. 

MONA­CO – Or­gan­is­ers of the Wan­da Di­a­mond League have an­nounced that Olympic 100m cham­pi­on Julien Al­fred will com­pete in the Bislett Games in Oslo and Bauhaus Galan in Stock­holm in 2025.

T&T sprint­er Leah Bertrand de­liv­ered a re­mark­able per­for­mance at the 2025 Rod Mc­Cravy Memo­r­i­al Track & Field meet in Louisville, Ken­tucky, USA, clock­ing a swift 7.30 sec­onds in the women’s 60-me­tre dash on Fri­day.

ABU DHABI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – Shai Hope scored an im­pres­sive cen­tu­ry, but it was not enough to earn his Dubai Cap­i­tals a win over Nicholas Pooran’s MI Emi­rates when the In­ter­na­tion­al League T20 con­tin­ued on Mon­day.

In this coun­try's first-ever ap­pear­ance at the four-man In­ter­na­tion­al Bob­sleigh and Skele­ton Fed­er­a­tion (IB­SF) World Cup, the T&T quar­tet just missed out on mak­ing the fi­nal round af­ter plac­ing 21st in heat one at the Olympia Bob Run St Moritz-Cele­ri­na in Switzer­land on Sun­day.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – For­mer West In­dies fast bowler Ken­neth Ben­jamin wants to see the im­ple­men­ta­tion of a two-tier Test sys­tem as he be­lieves it would help to im­prove the qual­i­ty of crick­et on the in­ter­na­tion­al stage.

Che Ben­ny scored a pair of goals and had a hand in an­oth­er as de­fend­ing cham­pi­on AC Port-of-of-Spain (AC PoS) eased to a 4-1 win over Point Fortin Civic in the sec­ond match of T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League (TTPFL) Tier I dou­ble-head­er at the Ari­ma Mu­nic­i­pal Sta­di­um, Ari­ma on Sun­day.

MAN­TIN – A ster­ling bowl­ing per­for­mance by West In­dies’ Un­der-19 Women car­ried them to an ex­cit­ing nine-run vic­to­ry over Nepal’s Un­der-19 Women in their first warmup match in Malaysia on Mon­day ahead of the ICC’s Un­der-19 T20 World Cup.

Rachel Vin­cent and Shunelle Sawh com­bined to lead Cal­drac Achiev­ers to a re­sound­ing ten-wick­et win over Play­ers Sports Club (SC) in the round one ac­tion of T&T Women’s Crick­et As­so­ci­a­tion’s (TTWCA) Pre­mier­ship Di­vi­sion 50-Over League on Sun­day.

So the head­line above is a broad per­spec­tive, which all crick­et-lov­ing Bar­ba­di­ans, whether for­mer play­ers, cur­rent play­ers, as­pir­ing play­ers, or mere­ly the cit­i­zens of this coun­try (Bar­ba­dos), should be con­cerned about.