DUNEDIN, New Zealand – The West In­dies’ T20 In­ter­na­tion­al se­ries against New Zealand end­ed in a dispir­it­ing whim­per on Thurs­day, as the hosts saved their most in­ept per­for­mance for the de­ci­sive fifth match, slump­ing to an eight-wick­et de­feat that hand­ed the se­ries to the Black Caps on a plat­ter.

Orinoco A, one of the newest teams in the Na­tion­al Pool League Pre­mier di­vi­sion, com­plet­ed its ninth round on Wednes­day with a 3-2 win against the Sikar­i­oz Bil­liards Club, at Bil­liards Place in Aranguez. Play­ing away from home, the Shiv Moti­lal Orinoco team set­tled first, with Zachary Af­foon draw­ing first blood against Muham­mad Rah­man.

Ken­ton Fran­cois, Samuel Bona­parte, and Melis­sa Nanan, along­side Uni­fied Part­ners Jalila Best and Aadil Ali John, are in Guade­loupe to rep­re­sent T&T at the Spe­cial Olympics Caribbean 3x3 Uni­fied Bas­ket­ball Games. The com­pe­ti­tion opened No­vem­ber 13 in Sainte Glaude, Bas­seterre, Guade­loupe, and will run un­til No­vem­ber 16.

MUM­BAI, In­dia – The Mum­bai In­di­ans (MI) have moved swift­ly in the trad­ing win­dow, ac­quir­ing ex­plo­sive West In­dies all-rounder Sher­fane Ruther­ford from the Gu­jarat Ti­tans (GT) ahead of the 2026 In­di­an Pre­mier League sea­son.

DUNEDIN – West In­dies saved their worst per­for­mance for last to hand their T20I se­ries to New Zealand on a plat­ter, as they slumped to an eight-wick­et de­feat in the fifth and fi­nal match in New Zealand on Thurs­day.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – John Camp­bell is set to play his first One Day In­ter­na­tion­al for the West In­dies in over six years af­ter be­ing named in a 15-mem­ber squad to face New Zealand in a three-match se­ries.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s ris­ing swim star Liam Car­ring­ton con­tin­ued his record-break­ing form this sea­son, de­liv­er­ing a se­ries of out­stand­ing per­for­mances for The Bolles School at the Flori­da High School Class 1A Swim­ming and Div­ing Cham­pi­onships, held on Sat­ur­day (No­vem­ber 8) at the FAST Aquat­ic Cen­tre in Ocala, Flori­da.

For­mer West In­dies and T&T crick­eters the leg­endary Dwayne Bra­vo and Kieron Pol­lard were for­mal­ly named Am­bas­sadors for Sport for the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go by the Min­istry of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs yes­ter­day.

It was a great week for Scotchie’s Spar­tans in the Bil­liards Sports Or­ga­ni­za­tion’s Na­tion­al Pool League. Fol­low­ing on from the pre­mier di­vi­sion team’s maid­en win last week, their first di­vi­sion team climbed off the bot­tom of the Group A stand­ings with an im­pres­sive 3-2 win over Lucky’s Knight Rid­ers sec­ond team.

Se­nior men’s na­tion­al team as­sis­tant coach, Rus­sell Lat­apy, ad­mits he is "sat­is­fied but not hap­py" with the team's progress since the ar­rival of head coach Dwight Yorke and his staff last year.

The Min­istry of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs has an­nounced the ap­point­ment of two of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s most cel­e­brat­ed crick­eters, Dwayne Bra­vo and Kieron Pol­lard, as Am­bas­sadors for Sport for the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

​No­vem­ber is for­ev­er etched in the minds of T&T cit­i­zens, and not be­cause it is more of­ten than not, just around nine months af­ter the great­est show on earth — Car­ni­val — but rather be­cause of FOOT­BALL.