Well, since in my last col­umn I con­grat­u­lat­ed the Women Red Force crick­eters on bring­ing home the Re­gion­al Su­per 50 Cup, they’ve in­spired T&T’s hock­ey he­roes. Join me in con­grat­u­lat­ing the Trinidad & To­ba­go un­der-21 men’s hock­ey team on their re­mark­able 3-1 vic­to­ry over Brazil in Bar­ba­dos. That’s right, Brazil – the land of sam­ba, beach­es and tal­ent.

De­fence Force will be con­fi­dent of main­tain­ing their four points lead at the top of the T&T Women’s League Foot­ball (TT WoLF) Trinidad stand­ings when they face strug­gling Po­lice FC at the De­fence Force Re­serves Ground, Mac­queripe, Ch­aguara­mas on Sun­day (March 30) from 4 pm.

GUWA­HATI, In­dia—Both Shim­ron Het­my­er and Jofra Archer made in­signif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tions for the Ra­jasthan Roy­als in their eight-wick­et loss to the Kolkata Knight Rid­ers in the In­di­an Pre­mier League Wednes­day.

Though high in praise for Tues­day’s im­pres­sive 4-0 win for the So­ca War­riors over Cu­ba in a Con­ca­caf Gold Cup qual­i­fi­er at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um, for­mer na­tion­al de­fend­er Brent San­cho be­lieves cru­cial changes are need­ed in the de­part­ments of mid­field and de­fence for the coun­try to qual­i­fy for the FI­FA World Cup.

Lee-Anne Thorn­ton moved to with­in a win of com­plet­ing the tre­ble in this year’s Sun­shine Snacks Tran­quil­li­ty Open Ten­nis Tour­na­ment af­ter she stormed past Madi­son Khan in their Women’s Open Sin­gles semi­fi­nal at the club’s courts on Vic­to­ria Av­enue, Port-of-Spain, Wednesday.

T&T’s So­ca War­riors are set to face the gi­ants of African foot­ball Nige­ria and Ghana, as well as re­gion­al ri­vals Ja­maica, in a four-team show­down for the Uni­ty Cup in May.

The T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion has re­ceived a much-need­ed fi­nan­cial boost to man­age the af­fairs of the sport, cour­tesy of the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) of T&T on Tues­day night.

Ag­gres­sive left-hand­ed West In­dies open­er Evin Lewis scored back-to-back hun­dreds in the on­go­ing Dream XI T10 Blast at Shaw Park, To­ba­go on Thurs­day.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) pres­i­dent Dr Kishore Shal­low said the 2024 T20 World Cup, which was co-host­ed by the West In­dies, brought “un­par­al­leled suc­cess” to the re­gion in gen­er­at­ing US$1.66 bil­lion.

Crazy 8’s se­cured a win in Round 16 of the Na­tion­al Pool League (NPL) first di­vi­sion, to take their record to eight wins and eight loss­es.

ABU DHABI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – Trinidad and To­ba­go’s in­ter­na­tion­al crick­et um­pire, Joel Wil­son has been re­moved from the In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil’s (ICC) Elite Pan­el of Um­pires.

DHA­KA, Bangladesh – Bangladesh head coach Phil Sim­mons has been giv­en a con­tract ex­ten­sion that will keep him in charge un­til the end of the 2027 ODI World Cup.