It was not a good night for the ‘STARS’ in the Na­tion­al Pool League, as all three teams bear­ing the name went down. The most sig­nif­i­cant of which was a top-of-the-ta­ble clash at Bil­liards Place in Aranguez be­tween sec­ond-placed Ri­valz and ta­ble top­pers Unit­ed Stars.

An­oth­er World Cup qual­i­fy­ing cy­cle is over and we will watch WC 2026 on tele­vi­sion while oth­er Caribbean coun­tries par­tic­i­pate. We de­bate who should be na­tion­al coach, but the broad­er peren­ni­al dis­cus­sion of “what we go do” resur­faces, ad nau­se­am, in the wake of this lat­est dis­as­ter. I have con­tributed to this de­bate for 30 years and con­tin­ue now.

Trinidad and To­ba­go Red Force have se­cured a spot in Sat­ur­day’s CG Unit­ed Su­per50 Cup fi­nal af­ter thrash­ing the Lee­ward Is­lands Hur­ri­canes by eight wick­ets in their fi­nal pre­lim­i­nary game on Thurs­day.

Ari­ma Boys’ Ro­man Catholic (RC) School wrote its name in­to the his­to­ry books once again when it won both the Boys’ Un­der-12 (U-12) and U-15 cat­e­gories in the Trinidad Leg of the Na­tion­al Pri­ma­ry Schools Foot­ball League Fi­nals at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Cou­va, yes­ter­day morn­ing.

LIN­COLN, New Zealand – Four West In­dies bats­men, led by Tage­nar­ine Chan­der­paul, scored half-cen­turies to lift their side to 346 for five at the close of play on the open­ing day of their two-day warmup match against a New Zealand XI on Tues­day in New Zealand.

DUBAI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – The West In­dies will fan­cy their chances of ad­vanc­ing to the Su­per Eight stage of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup af­ter be­ing giv­en a favourable draw.

Two first-half goals from Riquelme Phillips and Se­bas­t­ian James led Na­pari­ma Col­lege to the 2025 Pre­mier Di­vi­sion ti­tle of the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League at Lewis Street, San Fer­nan­do on Thurs­day, when they de­feat­ed Sig­nal Hill Sec­ondary School 2-0 in a must-win clash.

Per­sis­tent rain once again proved to be the biggest com­peti­tor in the CG Unit­ed Su­per50 Cup Tues­day, as both sched­uled match­es for the fourth round were aban­doned or end­ed in a no-re­sult due to the weath­er.

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand – Hav­ing been com­pet­i­tive in both the pre­ced­ing T20I and One Day In­ter­na­tion­al se­ries against New Zealand, West In­dies head coach Daren Sam­my says the team is brim­ming with con­fi­dence ahead of their up­com­ing Test se­ries.

This year's edi­tion of the Stew­ards Cup, orig­i­nal­ly sched­uled to take place on Sat­ur­day (No­vem­ber 29) at the Ari­ma Race Club, San­ta Rosa Park, Ari­ma, has been de­layed to De­cem­ber 6.

​West In­dies head coach Daren Sam­my is back­ing his Test team to rise to the chal­lenge and se­cure a his­toric re­sult in New Zealand. The tour­ing side be­gins its quest for a first Test match and se­ries win on New Zealand soil since 1995, a drought stretch­ing three decades.

HAL­LAN­DALE BEACH, Flori­da – Saffie Joseph Jr ex­tend­ed his im­pres­sive win­ning streak at Gulf­stream Park by cap­tur­ing his 14th con­sec­u­tive cham­pi­onship meet ti­tle when the Sun­shine Meet con­clud­ed over the week­end.