HY­DER­ABAD, In­dia – West In­dies cap­tain Shai Hope pro­duced an­oth­er scin­til­lat­ing knock while Keemo Paul came up trumps with the ball, as the re­gion­al side carved out a 24-run win over host In­dia here in the 4th T20I on Wednes­day.

No task in sports is ever easy. And so it should be, just as life tests us all; ac­cept­ing re­spon­si­bil­i­ty in sports comes with added pres­sure, nu­mer­ous de­mands, and the need for crit­i­cal and un­wa­ver­ing in­tro­spec­tion.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Bar­ba­di­an mid­dle-or­der bats­man Kevin Wick­ham is in line to make his de­but for the West In­dies af­ter be­ing named in a 15-mem­ber squad to tour Bangladesh for two Test match­es be­gin­ning lat­er this month.

HY­DER­ABAD, In­dia – West In­dies head coach Daren Sam­my has called for his troops to be more con­sis­tent in the Pow­er­play ahead of their cru­cial fourth T20I against In­dia, to­day.

For gen­er­a­tions, Trinidad and To­ba­go—and the wider Caribbean—has viewed sport through a rigid, colo­nial lens. We bow down to the al­tar of crick­et, pledge al­le­giance to foot­ball, and oc­ca­sion­al­ly spare a cheer for Olympic track and field. In do­ing so, we trap our youth—es­pe­cial­ly our young girls and women—in­side an out­dat­ed box, obliv­i­ous to the glob­al are­nas where mod­ern ath­letes thrive.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica — For­mer Crick­et West In­dies pres­i­dent Dave Cameron has urged the re­gion­al gov­ern­ing body to con­sid­er pulling out of in­ter­na­tion­al crick­et if its fi­nan­cial strug­gles con­tin­ue, say­ing such a move may be nec­es­sary to force the In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil to take no­tice.

Vic­to­ria Seenath and Tori De Fre­itas-Bap­tiste cap­tured the Ladies 25+ Di­vi­sion ti­tle for the third con­sec­u­tive year, ce­ment­ing their sta­tus among the re­gion’s top women’s golf­ing part­ner­ships and dri­ving T&T to a third-place over­all fin­ish at the Caribbean Golf As­so­ci­a­tion (CGA) Four-Ball Cham­pi­onship in the Turks and Caicos.

Cli­mate change is no longer a dis­tant threat; it af­fects all as­pects of life, in­clud­ing sports [UN Sport for Cli­mate Ac­tion]. Ac­cord­ing to the UN Sports for Cli­mate Ac­tion Frame­work [2016], sports or­gan­i­sa­tions must take "re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for their cli­mate foot­print, help­ing glob­al am­bi­tion step up and in­cen­tivis­ing ac­tion be­yond sports to take mean­ing­ful and trans­for­ma­tive cli­mate ac­tion."

Sport ad­min­is­tra­tors are re­serv­ing com­ment un­til the de­tails of this year’s $519,927,100 al­lo­ca­tion to the Min­istry of Sport and Youth Af­fairs are re­vealed by Line Min­is­ter Phillip Watts dur­ing de­bate on the 2027 fis­cal pack­age.

Olympian Leah Bertrand and mul­ti­ple-medal hock­ey play­er Jor­don Reynos have been se­lect­ed by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Olympic Com­mit­tee (TTOC) Ath­letes’ Com­mis­sion to rep­re­sent the coun­try at the IV Con­ti­nen­tal Ath­letes’ Fo­rum in Cos­ta Ri­ca, tak­ing place from To­day, uni­til Wednes­day (Oc­to­ber 12-14).

A day af­ter he earned Trinidad and To­ba­go a sil­ver medal in the In­di­vid­ual Time Tri­al at the UCI Elite Caribbean Road Cham­pi­onships in San­to Domin­go, Ja­di­an Neaves added to his medal tal­ly by clinch­ing gold in the Men’s Un­der-23 di­vi­sion of the In­di­vid­ual Road Race Sun­day (Oc­to­ber 11).

SHAR­JAH – Ben Hil­fen­haus and Fawad Ahmed pro­duced spec­tac­u­lar bowl­ing per­for­mances as Aus­tralia Cham­pi­ons got the bet­ter of West In­dies Cham­pi­ons by 36 runs in a low-scor­ing World Cham­pi­onship of Leg­ends con­test in the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates on Sun­day.