Four-time Olympic medal­list Ato Boldon says ad­just­ments to Unit­ed States gov­ern­ment pol­i­cy re­lat­ing to for­eign stu­dent en­rol­ment high­light the need for more in­dige­nous sys­tems of ath­lete de­vel­op­ment in T&T.

BIRM­ING­HAM – Fol­low­ing a lean run of scores by open­ers Bran­don King and Evin Lewis in their just con­clud­ed se­ries against Ire­land, West In­dies white ball skip­per Shai Hope is bank­ing on them to come good in their up­com­ing One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) se­ries against Eng­land which be­gins in Eng­land on Thurs­day.

Kens­ley Sandy and Ian Carter helped De­fence Force open its sea­son with a win, tak­ing down Roy­al­ty Bas­ket­ball Acad­e­my, 75-60, in the First Di­vi­sion of the Kelvin Roberts North Zone Bas­ket­ball Com­mis­sion's League at the Wood­brook Youth Fa­cil­i­ty in Port-of-Spain on Tues­day night.

GEORGE­TOWN – The Guyana Chess Fed­er­a­tion (GCF) will host the high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed CARI­COM Clas­sic Team Chess tour­na­ment for the sec­ond con­sec­u­tive year at its of­fi­cial venue, the Pe­ga­sus Suites and Cor­po­rate Cen­tre.

LUC­KNOW – The Roy­al Chal­lengers Ben­galu­ru (RCB) pulled off a stun­ning chase, scor­ing 230 against Luc­know Su­per Gi­ants (LSG) in a dra­mat­ic fi­nal group-stage clash, se­cur­ing a top-two spot in the In­di­an Pre­mier League (IPL) stand­ings and boost­ing their ti­tle hopes.

In­de­pen­dent ath­letes Kadeem Brown and Chiké Sam were among the top per­form­ers in the Spe­cial Olympics T&T (SOTT) Na­tion­al Games over the week­end.

CHELMS­FORD – West In­dies skip­per Hay­ley Matthews has surged to a ca­reer-best-equalling sec­ond place in the ICC Women’s T20I Bat­ting Rank­ings fol­low­ing a stel­lar per­for­mance against Eng­land.

CAL­I­FOR­NIA – Bar­ba­di­an train­er Saffie Joseph Jr and jock­ey Irad Or­tiz Jr. en­joyed a spec­tac­u­lar day at San­ta Ani­ta on Mon­day, se­cur­ing a grad­ed-stakes dou­ble af­ter ‘Skip­py­long­stock­ing’ tri­umphed as the odds-on favourite in the Grade II, US$200,000 Hol­ly­wood Gold Cup in the Unit­ed States.

E-Z Lines clinched the Na­tion­al 501 League of Darts A di­vi­sion ti­tle on the fi­nal day host­ed by the T&T Darts As­so­ci­a­tion (TT­DA) on April 22 at No 36 New Street, Port-of-Spain.

A com­mu­ni­ca­tion er­ror be­tween T&T de­fend­er Justin Gar­cia and goal­keep­er Mar­vin Phillip al­lowed the Reg­gae Boyz to pre­vail in a tense con­test of the Uni­ty Cup 3-2 at the GTECH Com­mu­ni­ty Sta­di­um in West Lon­don, on Tues­day (may 27).

BIRM­ING­HAM — West In­dies head coach Dar­ren Sam­my re­mained up­beat de­spite poor weath­er dis­rupt­ing his team’s prepa­ra­tions ahead of the first ODI against Eng­land on Thurs­day at Edg­bas­ton, Eng­land.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua — Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) and the West In­dies Play­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (WIPA) will stage the 8th CWI/WIPA Awards Gala, set for June 22 at the his­toric Wyn­d­ham Grand Bar­ba­dos Sam Lord’s Cas­tle.