BRIS­BANE – Sher­fane Ruther­ford failed to fire and his Syd­ney Thun­der missed an op­por­tu­ni­ty to go top of the ta­ble in the Big Bash League when they went down by five wick­ets to the Bris­bane Heat in Aus­tralia on Mon­day.

The trio of De­fence Force (men's Open), Mag­no­lias (women's Open) and Queen's Park Crick­et Club (QPCC) in the vet­er­ans Over-40 will put their ti­tles on the line when the 20th edi­tion of the Ven­tures Hock­ey Club In­ter­na­tion­al In­vi­ta­tion­al In­door Hock­ey Tour­na­ment flicks off at the Wood­brook Youth Fa­cil­i­ty, Hamil­ton-Hold­er Street, Wood­brook, Wednes­day from 5 pm.

A youth­ful T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB) North-South Clas­sic is set to bowl off at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my (BLCA) on Thurs­day af­ter­noon in a day-night en­counter.

For­mer West In­dies cap­tain Sir Clive Lloyd is not hap­py with the sug­ges­tion made by for­mer In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil (ICC) chair­man Greg Bar­clay that the West In­dies be dis­band­ed and play as in­di­vid­ual coun­tries.

Vice pres­i­dent of the Bar­ba­dos Crick­et As­so­ci­a­tion (BCA) Calvin Hope has been urged to re­sign if the voice note that has been mak­ing the rounds on so­cial me­dia al­leged­ly us­ing foul lan­guage to­wards the Prime Min­is­ter of Bar­ba­dos Mia Mot­t­ley.

The cesspi­ti­sa­tion of so­cial me­dia. “I was lost in the cesspit of so­cial me­dia”, read the head­line of an ar­ti­cle in a promi­nent Eng­lish dai­ly news­pa­per.

T&T se­nior men’s in­door hock­ey coach Raphael Govia says his team will be head­ing to next month's FIH In­door Hock­ey World Cup in Porec, Croa­t­ia, to rat­tle some cages. The ac­tion will un­fold at the Za­li­ka Sport Cen­tre from Feb­ru­ary 3-9.

For­mer long jumper Che Richards had some ad­vice for ath­letes at the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ic Ad­min­is­tra­tion (NAAATTs) End of Year Awards cer­e­mo­ny at the Radis­son Ho­tel, Wright­son Road, Port of Spain on Sat­ur­day - “ Com­mit your­selves to faith.”

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Two-time de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Set­tlers all but ce­ment­ed a play­off spot in the Bim10 crick­et tour­na­ment with an em­phat­ic eight-wick­et vic­to­ry over the win­less Voy­agers on Sat­ur­day.

Speedy AEK Athens mid­field­er and strik­er Levi Gar­cia ea­ger­ly awaits the op­por­tu­ni­ty to play for the T&T So­ca War­riors un­der new coach Dwight Yorke. 

The West In­dies Women crick­eters won 13 (52 per cent) of the 25 match­es played in 2024. They won ten (62.5 per cent) of 16 T20 match­es, in­clu­sive of the three wins at the In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil (ICC) T20 Women World Cup in the UAE. In three bi­lat­er­al ODI se­ries against Pak­istan, Sri Lan­ka, and In­dia, they won three (33.3 per cent) of the nine match­es.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica — At 36 years old, West In­dies all-rounder An­dre Rus­sell is de­ter­mined to ex­tend his crick­et­ing jour­ney, dri­ven by a com­mit­ment to nur­tur­ing the next gen­er­a­tion of re­gion­al tal­ent and con­tribut­ing to the team’s suc­cess in the lead-up to the 2026 ICC World Cup.