JO­HAN­NES­BURG – West In­dies held their nerves to en­sure they end­ed their three-match T20I se­ries against South Africa on a win­ning note, with a thrilling six-run win via the Duck­worth/Lewis/Stern method in South Africa on Sat­ur­day.

Pac­er ​Ter­rence Hinds snapped up four KFC Clarke Road wick­ets in the open­ing ses­sion to help Queen’s Park Crick­et Club (QPCC) se­cure a first-in­nings lead of 104 on Day One of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Crick­et Board Pre­mier One match at the Queen’s Park Oval in St Clair, Port-of-Spain, Sat­urday.

​Sea­soned lo­cal foot­ball cam­paign­ers, De­fence Force, will play no part in this year’s Women’s Foot­ball League (WoLF), which kicked off on Sat­ur­day at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Bal­main, Cou­va.

With­in the next two months, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) will make a de­ci­sion as to whether Dwight Yorke will stay on as head coach of the men’s se­nior team.

"The will­ing­ness to not by­pass il­lu­sion is very im­por­tant... We come to see the true na­ture of things by see­ing through the il­lu­so­ry na­ture of things... We don't come to clar­i­ty by avoid­ing con­fu­sion." Adyashan­ti (Amer­i­can spir­i­tu­al teacher and au­thor).

T&T Un­der-17 boys’ foot­ball team coach Ran­dollph Boyce has in­clud­ed Cana­da-based Toron­to FC Acad­e­my’s Chris­t­ian Pitt in his fi­nal 21-man team at the ex­pense of San Juan North Sec­ondary cap­tain Daniel Lewis for the Con­ca­caf Un­der-17 Men’s Qual­i­fiers, which be­gin next week Tues­day.

The T&T se­nior women’s net­ball team, dubbed the ‘Ca­lyp­so Girls’, will open their Pool B round-robin cam­paign at this year’s scaled-down ver­sion of the Com­mon­wealth Games against re­gion­al ri­vals and world num­ber three team, Ja­maica, on Ju­ly 25.

HARARE, Zim­bab­we – West In­dies were of­fi­cial­ly elim­i­nat­ed from semi­fi­nal con­tention at the ICC Men’s Un­der-19 Crick­et World Cup af­ter Sri Lan­ka de­feat­ed South Africa in their Su­per Six, Group 1 en­counter on Thurs­day.

Since my last com­men­tary, the West In­dies Un­der-19 World Cup team have been per­form­ing with a lev­el of "ster­ling" grit that sug­gests they’ve trad­ed their nerves for pure adren­a­line. None more so than their re­cent nar­row loss to an un­beat­en, ti­tle-favourite Aus­tralia team.

HARARE – West In­dies Un­der-19s’ hopes of reach­ing the semi­fi­nal of the ICC Men’s Un­der-19 Crick­et World Cup suf­fered a ma­jor set­back when they went down by 22 runs to de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Aus­tralia in their cru­cial Su­per Six, Group 1 en­counter in Zim­bab­we on Wednes­day.

​T&T’s Un­der-17 foot­ballers re­ceived a bap­tism of fire in in­ter­na­tion­al com­pe­ti­tion on Wednes­day (Jan­u­ar­ry 28), as they were ham­mered 6-0 by their Pe­ru­vian coun­ter­parts in an in­ter­na­tion­al friend­ly at the Es­ta­dio Ciu­dad de Fut­bol in Li­ma, Pe­ru.

DUBAI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – Bar­ba­di­an Aaron Jones has been pro­vi­sion­al­ly sus­pend­ed by the ICC af­ter be­ing charged with five counts of breach­ing their an­ti-cor­rup­tion codes along with Crick­et West In­dies’ (CWI).