BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Two-time de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Set­tlers will bat­tle with War­riors in their chase for a third con­sec­u­tive BIM10 crick­et ti­tle.

Track ath­lete Jereem Richards and crick­eter Kar­ish­ma Ramharack cap­tured the 2024 First Cit­i­zens Sports Foun­da­tion "Sports­man of the Year" and "Sports­woman of the Year" ac­co­lades when the 62nd edi­tion of the na­tion­al sports awards func­tion was held at the Hy­att Re­gency, Wright­son Road, Port-of-Spain on Sat­ur­day night.

IS­LAM­ABAD – Al­ick Athanaze and Tevin Im­lach both got use­ful knocks as the West In­dies’ three-day tour match against the Pak­istan Sha­heens pre­dictably end­ed in a draw in Pak­istan on Sun­day.

T&T swim­mer Nikoli Black­man earned a gold and bronze re­lay medal as he and his Uni­ver­si­ty of Ten­nessee team­mates got the bet­ter of fel­low T&T swim­mer Zarek Wil­son's Uni­ver­si­ty of Al­aba­ma in their Dual Meet at Don Gam­bril Olympic Pool in the Al­aba­ma Aquat­ic Cen­tre, Tuscaloosa, Al­aba­ma on Sat­ur­day.

Ex­pe­ri­enced T&T mid­dle-or­der bats­man Ja­son Mo­hammed stole the spot­light as the Pow­er­gen leg­end added 90 runs to his overnight tal­ly of 134 to com­plete a dou­ble hun­dred on Sat­ur­day.

Re­jec­tion is of­ten a bless­ing in dis­guise, guid­ing you to­ward a dif­fer­ent path that aligns more close­ly with your true po­ten­tial.

I was pret­ty alarmed when I read the phys­i­cal ac­tiv­i­ty up­date from the World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (WHO) pub­lished in June 2024. The ti­tle reads ‘Glob­al lev­els of phys­i­cal in­ac­tiv­i­ty in adults off track for 2030’. So why was I alarmed? Over the years, ir­refutable re­search has shown that en­gag­ing in phys­i­cal ac­tiv­i­ty is the most ef­fec­tive med­i­cine for re­duc­ing the risk of de­vel­op­ing non-com­mu­ni­ca­ble dis­eases, man­ag­ing these dis­eases, im­prov­ing over­all health, and, by ex­ten­sion, qual­i­ty of life.  

De­fence Force (men), Mag­no­lias (women) and Queen's Park Crick­et Club (vet­er­ans Over-40) were all with­in one win of re­peat­ing as cham­pi­ons when they ad­vanced to their re­spec­tive di­vi­sion­al fi­nals in the 20th edi­tion of the Ven­tures Hock­ey Club In­ter­na­tion­al In­vi­ta­tion­al In­door Hock­ey Tour­na­ment Sun­day.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – West In­dies fast bowler Alzarri Joseph has been nom­i­nat­ed for the Se­nior Sports­man of the Year award for 2024 by the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion, Sports and Cre­ative In­dus­tries.

Fol­low­ing his stint as act­ing trea­sur­er of the TTCB since Feb­ru­ary 2024, Stephen Ramkissoon has se­cured the po­si­tion on a full-time ba­sis. This was due to for­mer trea­sur­er Kiswah Chaitoo los­ing his ap­peal in De­cem­ber af­ter the board moved a vote of no con­fi­dence in him in Jan­u­ary 2024.

Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) has an­nounced that fast-bowl­ing all-rounder Cher­ry-Ann Fras­er and un­capped quick Jan­nil­lea Glas­gow have earned call-ups to the 15-mem­ber West In­dies’ squad for the six white-ball fix­tures against Bangladesh at home. 

On Tues­day on is­ports, news broke that the promised Olympic Games 2028 de­cider se­ries for the Caribbean will be held in Trinidad and To­ba­go from April 18 to May 11 at two venues, the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba and Queens Park Oval in Port-of-Spain.