DUBAI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – Bar­ba­di­an left-arm pac­er Ja­keem Pol­lard was one of on­ly five West In­di­ans snapped up at the ILT20 auc­tion on Thurs­day.

MAN­CHES­TER, Eng­land – Ja­maican in­ter­na­tion­al Khadi­ja "Bun­ny" Shaw scored an im­por­tant sec­ond half goal to en­sure Man­ches­ter City and Re­al Madrid played to a 1-1 draw in the Women’s Cham­pi­ons League in Eng­land on Thurs­day.

Win­ston Sobers re­tained his po­si­tion as chair­man of the North Zone of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Crick­et Board at its An­nu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing (AGM) at the Queen’s Park Oval on Sat­ur­day.

NEW CHANDI­GARH, In­dia – In­di­an pac­er An­shul Kam­boj is in line to make his One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) de­but hav­ing been se­lect­ed to re­place the in­jured Prasidh Kr­ish­na for the third and fi­nal ODI against the West In­dies in In­dia on Sat­ur­day.

Na­tion­al coach Derek King faces more than a com­fort­ing re­sult against Cu­raçao when the teams meet at 6 pm Thurs­day (Oc­to­ber 1) af­ter­noon at the Es­ta­dio Ergilio Ha­to, Willem­stad, in Group A of the CON­CA­CAF Na­tions League.

A brace from sub­sti­tute Jay­don Car­ring­ton helped St Bene­dict’s Col­lege to record a con­vinc­ing 4-0 drub­bing of Ari­ma North Sec­ondary School, known as ‘The Di­al Dy­namos’ in the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) Pre­mier­ship Di­vi­sion, at the Ari­ma Velo­drome, Wednes­day (Sep­tem­ber 30).

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) has wel­comed Prime Min­is­ter of Bar­ba­dos Mia Amor Mot­t­ley’s call for greater in­vest­ment in crick­et and her com­mit­ment to the de­vel­op­ment of a High-Per­for­mance Cen­tre (HPC) in Bar­ba­dos.

GUWA­HATI, In­dia – West In­dies bowl­ing coach Ravi Ram­paul has de­scribed the team’s bowl­ing per­for­mance in the sec­ond One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) against In­dia as be­low par, ex­plain­ing that they failed to ex­e­cute their plans.

HARARE, Zim­bab­we – West In­dies Women’s all-rounder Aaliyah Al­leyne has main­tained that the team was al­ways con­fi­dent of win­ning their One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) se­ries against Zim­bab­we de­spite los­ing the sec­ond match.

The West In­dies have touched down in In­dia for a gru­elling white-ball tour con­sist­ing of three One Day In­ter­na­tion­als (ODIs) and five Twen­ty20s (T20s). Tour­ing In­dia is like vol­un­tar­i­ly step­ping in­to a boil­ing pot of 100,000 scream­ing fans, pitch con­di­tions tai­lored specif­i­cal­ly for your demise, and a home team that op­er­ates with the cold ruth­less­ness of a cor­po­rate con­glom­er­ate.

The race for the four re­main­ing age-group league ti­tles in the Queen’s Park Crick­et Club (QPCC) Eight-A-Side Foot­ball League looks head­ed for a fi­nal day of de­ciders on Oc­to­ber 9 at the Queen’s Park Oval, Tra­garete Road, Port-of-Spain, af­ter an­oth­er ex­cit­ing night of match­es at the venue on Mon­day (Sep­tem­ber 29).

GUWA­HATI, In­dia – Shub­man Gill struck the fastest dou­ble-cen­tu­ry in One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) his­to­ry and Ro­hit Shar­ma made 101 as In­dia mowed down 406 to beat West In­dies with 39 balls to spare, tak­ing an unas­sail­able 2-0 lead in the three-match se­ries.