1 After slumping to an embarrassing defeat to Ireland, the West Indies recovered to defeat Pakistan by 150 runs at the Cricket World Cup. Thanks to good batting in the middle overs from Marlon Samuels, Dinesh Ramdin and Lendl Simmons as well as fireworks from Andre Russell and Darren Sammy, the West Indies amassed a reasonable 310 for 6. They then bowled and fielded well, at one point have the Pakistanis at 1-4, to win their first game of this World Cup.

The Windies are in second place in Pool B, behind India who registered and impressive 130 run win over cup contenders South Africa. Hosts New Zealand and Australia top Pool A, both playing superb cricket. Tim Southee’s impressive figures of 7-33 saw New Zealand blow away England for 123 before chasing it down in 12.2 overs.

2 Rafael Nadal lost on clay for the first time in 12 years today. The Spaniard’s run of 52 consecutive wins ended with hin going down 1-6 6-2 7-5 to Italian Fabio Fognini in the Rio Open semi-final clash.

World number 28 Fognini will played Nadal’s countryman David Ferrer, who he has never beaten, in the final later today. Ferrer earned his spot by defeating Austrian Andreas Haider-Maurer 7-5 6-1.

3 Jamaica’s under-17 Reggae Boyz bow into action at the CONCACAF Under-17 Championship with a clash against hosts Honduras on Friday.

The tournament, which will take place from Friday, February 27 to March 15, sees Jamaica pitted against Group A rivals Honduras, the United States, Trinidad and Tobago, Guatemala and Cuba.

Group B includes the other six teams of Mexico, Costa Rica, Haiti, Canada, St Lucia and Panama.

The young Jamaicans, captained by Calabar’s Jahwahni Hinds, will be competing to be one of the four to be selected from this tournament to be CONCACAF representatives at the 2015 U-17 World Cup in Chile.

4 Double Olympic champion Mo Farah yesterday ran to a world record win of 8:03:04 in the two mile event at the Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix, breaking Kenenisa Bekele’s previous record of 8:04.34.

The British long distance star defeated Kenyan Paul Koech and American Bernard Lagat on his way to the first world record of his career despite having five world track titles over the 5000m and 10000m distances.

Building his season up to the World Championship later this year, Farah will skip the European Championship, but looked impressive as he dismissed the field, even running the second mile in less than four minutes.

5 St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) are both the male and female champions of this year’s Digicel/Hanover Co-Operative Credit Union’s Western Championships.

It was the ninth straight ‘Western Champs’ title for the girls, who amassed 367 points to outpace second place Rusea’s who had 295 at the Montego Bay Sports Complex. The boys, however, had a dominant margin of over 100 points in defeating defending champions Munro College. They had 430 to Munro’s 329. This is the second time in three years that STETHS has won the double in the West.

Third place went to the Petersfield High boys who collected 239 points while in the girls section Herbert Morrison claimed 224 points for third.