BEN­GALU­RU, In­dia – West In­dies head coach Daren Sam­my has laud­ed his team’s per­for­mances in the short­er for­mat of the game over the past few months, point­ing out that he had seen ma­jor im­prove­ments in all facets of the game.

BEN­GALU­RU, In­dia—The high-scor­ing, block­buster T20I se­ries be­tween In­dia and West In­dies came to a dis­ap­point­ing end on Sat­ur­day with the fifth and fi­nal match end­ing in a no re­sult.

BEN­GALU­RU, In­dia – The West In­dies will be hop­ing for a win­ning end to their white-ball tour of In­dia when the two teams clash in the fifth and de­cid­ing T20I on Sat­ur­day.

Do not say that I didn’t tell you. In my last col­umn, I wrote that I ex­pect­ed the West In­dies to put up a far stiffer fight in the T20 se­ries against the In­di­ans, but to be com­plete­ly hon­est, they have well and tru­ly ex­ceed­ed even my own op­ti­mistic ex­pec­ta­tions.

“Long live the stu­dents, a gar­den of joy, they are birds that are not scared of beasts or po­lice” (Vi­o­le­ta Par­ra, Chilean singer-song­writer)

Amir Jan­goo’s out­stand­ing per­for­mances for the West In­dies made him the Trinidad and To­ba­go Crick­et Board’s (TTCB) In­ter­na­tion­al Play­er of the Year at the board’s an­nu­al na­tion­al awards cer­e­mo­ny, which was held at the Den­nis P. Ramd­han Com­plex in Mc Bean, Cou­va, on Wednes­day evening.

Mid­way through the 2026 Sports Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go (SporTT) Boys’ Pre­mier­ship Di­vi­sion of the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) sea­son, new­com­er Hillview Col­lege has sacked its coach, Je­re­my McMeo.

Three dif­fer­ent play­ers were on tar­get as the Cor­nell Glen-coached St. Mary's Col­lege whipped vis­i­tors Mal­ick Sec­ondary 3-1 to re­gain sole pos­ses­sion of the lead in the 17-team Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) Boys Pre­mier at St. Mary's Col­lege Ground, Ser­pen­tine Road, in St. Clair on Wednes­day.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Club San­do will be con­fi­dent of their chances in the sec­ond leg of their Con­ca­caf Caribbean Cup clash with Ja­maica’s Mount Pleas­ant Foot­ball Acad­e­my, the reign­ing cham­pi­ons at Sabi­na Park, Kingston, Ja­maica, on Thurs­day.

HY­DER­ABAD, In­dia – West In­dies’ bowl­ing hero in the cru­cial fourth T20I, Keemo Paul has cred­it­ed the team’s bowlers for their ex­e­cu­tion against In­dia, which helped to set up a mem­o­rable 24-run win.

Di­ane Hen­der­son, Pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Olympic Com­mit­tee, is hop­ing the gov­ern­ment’s in­creased al­lo­ca­tion to the Min­istry of Sports and Youth Af­fairs, by Min­is­ter of Fi­nance Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo in his pre­sen­ta­tion of the 2027 Bud­get at the Red House, Port-of-Spain, on Mon­day, Oc­to­ber 12, is geared to­wards this coun­try’s prepa­ra­tions for the Los An­ge­les Olympics 2028 (LA28).

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Olympic Com­mit­tee (TTOC) dis­trib­uted TT$150,000 in bonus­es to na­tion­al ath­letes on their medal achieve­ments at the Ju­ly/Au­gust Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean Games held in San­to Domin­go, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic.