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.

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).

PAARL, South Africa – West In­dies stand in T20 cap­tain, Ros­ton Chase isn’t fazed by their dis­ap­point­ing start to their se­ries against South Africa, hav­ing re­vealed that im­ple­ment­ing and ex­e­cut­ing strate­gies are the team’s main fo­cus as they pre­pare for the T20 World Cup.

CEN­TU­RI­ON, South Africa – Quin­ton de Kock warmed up for the T20 World Cup by smash­ing a bound­ary-stud­ded cen­tu­ry to lead South Africa’s su­perb run chase in a sev­en-wick­et vic­to­ry over the West In­dies on Thurs­day.

Team cap­tain San­ni Wil­son and To­rie Jean-Jacques scored two goals each as T&T Un­der-17 girls spanked Bar­ba­dos 8-2 for their first win in Group F of the Con­ca­caf U-17 Women’s Cham­pi­onship at the Sta­dion Rig­naal Fran­cis­ca, Willem­stad, Cu­ra­cao on Wednes­day night.

For­mer T&T na­tion­al women’s vol­ley­baller Sinead Jack-Kisal and Ecza­cıbaşı Dy­nav­it stayed in the hunt for an au­to­mat­ic quar­ter­fi­nal spot in the 66th edi­tion of the CEV Women’s Cham­pi­ons League Vol­ley af­ter a straight­for­ward 25-15, 25-16, 25-17 win over Group C bot­tom-placed team Ser­bians Zeleznicar La­jko­vac, on Wednesday.

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.

KINGSTOWN, St Vin­cent – Wind­ward Is­lands Women put them­selves in prime po­si­tion to cap­ture this year’s CG Unit­ed Women’s Su­per50 Cup ti­tle by de­feat­ing Lee­ward Is­lands Women by three wick­ets in the sec­ond and penul­ti­mate round on Thurs­day.

​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.

PAARL – Aiden Markram’s com­mand­ing, un­beat­en 86 guid­ed South Africa to a com­pre­hen­sive nine-wick­et vic­to­ry over the West In­dies, se­cur­ing a 1-0 lead in their three-match T20I se­ries in South Africa on Tues­day.

KINGSTOWN – De­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Trinidad & To­ba­go Women be­gan the de­fence of their CG Unit­ed Women’s Su­per 50 cup ti­tle on a los­ing note, af­ter go­ing down by 91 runs to the Wind­ward Is­lands Women in their op­ne­ing round fix­ture at Sion Hill in St Vin­cent on Tues­day.

A few changes have been made to the T&T Un­der-17 Women’s team, fol­low­ing last week­end’s 2-2 tie with host Cu­ra­cao in their open­ing match of the Con­ca­caf Un­der-17 Women’s World Cup Qual­i­fiers.