CEN­TU­RI­ON – Akeal Ho­sein’s un­beat­en 22 off 10 balls proved de­ci­sive in the Joburg Su­per Kings’ 22-run win over the Pre­to­ria Cap­i­tals in their open­ing match of the SA20 in South Africa on Sat­ur­day.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – Ja­maica’s women’s ju­nior 4×100 me­tre re­lay team was re­cent­ly vot­ed the Best Women’s Team at the Ju­nior Pan Amer­i­can Games, which were held in Au­gust.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – The hal­lowed ground of Cay­manas Park is set to wit­ness a his­toric chang­ing of the guard to­day (Dec 26) as sea­soned own­er Carl­ton Wat­son stands poised to shat­ter a 48-year-old record.

GROS ISLET, St Lu­cia – Af­ter a year de­fined by Olympic glo­ry and un­time­ly in­jury, sprint­ing sen­sa­tion Julien Al­fred is shift­ing gears.

SHAR­JAH – The Desert Vipers weath­ered a spir­it­ed late fight­back from the Shar­jah War­riorz and West In­di­an John­son Charles, to clinch a tense five-wick­et vic­to­ry at the Shar­jah Crick­et Sta­di­um in the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates on Fri­day, si­mul­ta­ne­ous­ly se­cur­ing their own play­off berth and ex­tin­guish­ing their op­po­nents’ sea­son.

Even af­ter a land­mark year that took him from Greece to Rus­sia in a record-break­ing move, Levi Gar­cia has not for­got­ten where his jour­ney be­gan.

​In a dis­play of pure class and dom­i­nance, cham­pi­on horse Hel­lo World etched his name deep­er in­to the his­to­ry books of T&T horse rac­ing on Box­ing Day, yes­ter­day, se­cur­ing an his­toric third con­sec­u­tive vic­to­ry in the pres­ti­gious Grade I Gold Cup at San­ta Rosa Park, Ari­ma. The win came even as the field was nar­rowed when main con­tender Head­lin­er, the Triple Crown cham­pi­on, was scratched from the race.

CAPE TOWN – The SA20’s fourth sea­son ex­plod­ed in­to life with a bound­ary-laden thriller at a heav­ing New­lands Friday, where Dur­ban’s Su­per Gi­ants (DSG) stunned de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons MI Cape Town (MICT) by 15 runs in a tour­na­ment record shootout in South Africa.

MOUNT MAUN­GANUI, New Zealand – New Zealand fast bowler Ja­cob Duffy grabbed a sen­sa­tion­al 23 wick­ets in the just con­clud­ed three-Test se­ries against West In­dies to be­come his coun­try’s high­est-ever wick­et tak­er in a cal­en­dar year.

ABU DHABI – Nicholas Pooran ham­mered an un­beat­en half cen­tu­ry and to­geth­er with Muham­mad Waseem car­ried MI Emi­rates to a con­vinc­ing eight-wick­et vic­to­ry over the strug­gling Gulf Gi­ants when the In­ter­na­tion­al League T20 con­tin­ued in the Unit­ed Aram Emi­rates on Tues­day.

Trinidad and To­ba­go cen­tre back Ko­bi Hen­ry has signed a two-year deal to play with Ma­jor League Soc­cer (MLS) team, Re­al Salt Lake.

I re­cent­ly went down a lin­guis­tic rab­bit hole to see if “cat­a­stroph­ic” is a stronger word than “dis­as­ter”. Turns out, it is.