KOLKATA, In­dia – San­ju Sam­son pro­duced one of In­dia’s great­est ever bat­ting per­for­mances at a T20 World Cup to pow­er his side to a clin­i­cal five-wick­et vic­to­ry over West In­dies on Sun­day and keep their hopes of de­fend­ing their ti­tle alive.

KOLKATA — De­fend­ing cham­pi­on and co-host In­dia se­cured the last semi­fi­nal spot at crick­et’s T20 World Cup af­ter a five-wick­et win over West In­dies in the Su­per Eights on Sun­day with four balls re­main­ing.

The quar­tet of Chaz Williams, Do­minic Joseph, Josi­ah Kallicha­ran, and Gio­van­ni Hospedales found the net on Mon­day to pro­pel the T&T Un­der-20 foot­ball team to a 4-0 tri­umph over Sint Maarten for their sec­ond win in Group E of the Con­ca­caf Un­der-20 Cham­pi­onships in Cos­ta Ri­ca.

KOLKATA, In­dia – De­spite fail­ing in their bid to reach the semi­fi­nal of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, West In­dies cap­tain Shai Hope be­lieves his team per­formed ad­mirably through­out the tour­na­ment and can leave with their heads held high.

West In­dies se­nior men’s team's de­par­ture from In­dia, fol­low­ing their ex­it from the ICC Men's T20 World Cup, has been de­layed due to in­ter­na­tion­al air­space re­stric­tions.

Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Pres­i­dent Dr Kishore Shal­low is show­er­ing praise on the West In­dies af­ter their ex­it from the ICC T20 Crick­et World Cup in In­dia on Sun­day.

A gen­er­a­tion that ig­nores his­to­ry has no past and no fu­ture, as for­get­ting the strug­gles ren­ders the present dis­placed and the fu­ture un­cer­tain. Worse yet, fail­ing to cap­ture the past amounts to eras­ing his­to­ry. As such, a sport with­out a his­tor­i­cal iden­ti­ty is not on­ly sub­ject­ed to the capri­cious­ness of the present, but al­so its fol­low­ers are ren­dered in­ca­pable of tru­ly valu­ing the gi­ants on whose shoul­ders they stand.

Out-of-favour West In­dies open­er Je­re­my Solozano scored a dou­ble hun­dred (his sec­ond hun­dred of the sea­son) as the Pow­er­gen bats­man pound­ed the Vic­to­ria bowlers on day one of the T&T Crick­et Board Pre­mier­ship Di­vi­sion One round five fix­ture in Bar­rack­pore. But it wasn’t the on­ly dou­ble hun­dred of the day; an­oth­er out-of-favour bats­man, Evin Lewis, blast­ed 200 for Bess Mo­tors Marchin Pa­tri­ots against Mer­ry­boys.

KOLKATA – Sim­i­lar­ly to when they met in 2016, West In­dies head coach Daren Sam­my knows his side will be the un­der­dogs in In­dia on Sun­day when they take on In­dia in their must-win Su­per Eights con­test at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup.

Za­hara An­tho­ny, Katelon Leera, and Mic­ah Alexan­der se­cured qual­i­fi­ca­tion berths for the Carif­ta Swim­ming Cham­pi­onships in at least two events dur­ing the Na­tion­al Long Course Age Group Cham­pi­onships at the Na­tion­al Aquat­ic Cen­tre in Bal­main, Cou­va on Fri­day.

ST GEORGE’S – West In­dies Women were saved from al­most cer­tain de­feat by the rain af­ter pro­duc­ing one of their worst-ever bat­ting per­for­mances in the open­ing T20I against Sri Lan­ka Women in Grena­da on Sat­ur­day.

New­com­ers Blue Na­tion be­came the first team to qual­i­fy for the round of 16 in the East-West Cor­ri­dor Foot­ball League on Thurs­day, de­spite a 2-1 loss to the Mt Pleas­ant Boyz at the Cour­land Recre­ation Ground in Black Rock, To­ba­go.