West Indies flattered to deceive and Australia crushed them by 127 runs to win the DLF Cup yesterday at the Kinrara Academy Oval.

The West Indies batsmen were as steady as their bowlers yesterday at the Antigua Recreation Ground on the second day of this first Digicel Test match.

Brian Lara is back as West Indies captain for a third time, after past players asked him and present players urged him to accept the position.

Success at long last for Trinidad and Tobago, and when it comes so emphatically against the most dominant team in the 41 years of senior regional first-class cricket competition, it is all the sweeter.

The Warner Group of Companies, chaired by Jack Warner, has funded the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB) for the 2006 season to the sum of $1 million.

Inundated with telephone calls, text messages and faxes hailing his achievement of becoming Test cricket's leading scorer, Brian Lara spoke passionately yesterday about the influences on his cricket career, about his country, his family and his football friends, about his love of and hopes for West Indies cricket, about the impact he hopes his latest record will have on the people of the Caribbean.

West Indies coach Bennett King expressed surprising confidence on Monday ahead of his squad's tour of Australia, but said beating the world's No. 1 cricket team on its home turf won't be easy.

Chris Gayle became the fourth West Indies batsman to hit a Test triple hundred on Monday, to make the way safe for the home team in the fourth and final Test against South Africa.

GEORGETOWN ? West Indies cricket captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul was honoured by Guyana?s president Bharrat Jagdeo during a ceremony sponsored by his local club Unity/Lancaster in his hometown of Unity on Thursday afternoon.

Trinidad and Tobago captain Daren Ganga lashed a double century before the Leewards Islands compiled 64 for one in their second innings yesterday, third day of their ninth-round Carib Beer Series clash in Montserrat.