LON­DON, Eng­land – West In­dies Women’s cap­tain Hay­ley Matthews top­scored for MI Lon­don Women, but her team still went down by sev­en wick­ets to Sun­ris­ers Leeds Women in the open­ing match of the Women’s Hun­dred on Tues­day.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – The Bar­ba­dos gov­ern­ment said on Tues­day that the state fu­ner­al of Na­tion­al Hero and for­mer West In­dies crick­et cap­tain, Sir Garfield Sobers, will take place on Ju­ly 29, at the Kens­ing­ton Oval. The crick­et leg­end died last Fri­day at the age of 89.

The Ox­ford Eng­lish Dic­tio­nary is an im­pres­sive col­lec­tion of words, but even if you stacked every vol­ume from floor to ceil­ing, it lacks the vo­cab­u­lary to prop­er­ly de­fine Sir Garfield St Aubrun Sobers.

BRIDGETOWN – Fol­low­ing their 3-2 One Day In­ter­na­tion­al se­ries loss to New Zealand, West In­dies head coach Daren Sam­my has ac­cept­ed that the re­gion­al side will have to go through the Qual­i­fiers to book their spot at the 2027 ICC Men’s Crick­et World Cup.

Dou­ble Olympic medal­list Keshorn Wal­cott, sprint­ers Leah Bertrand and Jereem Richards, and cy­clist Nicholas Paul will take the front po­si­tions in the T&T team for the com­ing Com­mon­wealth Games, which will take place Ju­ly 23 to Au­gust 2 in Glas­gow, Scot­land.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – Pres­i­dent of the Ja­maica Foot­ball Fed­er­a­tion (JFF), Michael Rick­etts strong­ly be­lieves the coun­try will be award­ed the rights to co-host the 2031 FI­FA Women’s World Cup.

ST. JOHN’S, An­tigua – The An­tigua & Bar­bu­da Fal­cons have locked in their over­seas ar­se­nal for the 2026 Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League, un­veil­ing a six-man con­tin­gent that mar­ries glob­al star pow­er with tac­ti­cal pre­ci­sion and ris­ing sub­con­ti­nen­tal flair.

Caribbean As­so­ci­a­tion of Na­tion­al Olympic Com­mit­tees (CANOC) pres­i­dent Kei­th Joseph, in his re­cent (17th Ju­ly 2026) pres­i­dent’s newslet­ter to CANOC mem­ber na­tion­al Olympic Com­mit­tees (NOCs), high­light­ed some per­ti­nent is­sues that will have a sig­nif­i­cant im­pact on glob­al Olympic sport as we now know it. Here is the thing. For all the sur­face com­mer­cial suc­cess of glob­al sport. There is trou­ble brew­ing.

In the land­scape of youth sports in Trinidad and To­ba­go, bal­anc­ing a sin­gle ath­let­ic dis­ci­pline along­side rig­or­ous aca­d­e­mics is a feat in it­self. Man­ag­ing two dis­tinct sports as a na­tion­al play­er while prepar­ing for the de­mands of Form Five is ex­tra­or­di­nary.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Bar­ba­dos Un­der-19s con­tin­ued their dom­i­nant march while Trinidad and To­ba­go re­cov­ered from the de­feat against Bar­ba­dos on Sat­ur­day to record a four-wick­et win in the CWI Ris­ing Stars Men’s 50-over Cham­pi­onship, on Mon­day.

Garfield St Aubrun Sobers (Sir) is ranked amongst the great­est of West In­di­ans, com­pa­ra­ble to Tou­s­saint L’Ou­ver­ture—who turned back Napoleon’s army, Frank Wor­rell, he un­der­stood the strength of a unit­ed WI team, CLR James, con­sid­ered one of the most sig­nif­i­cant in­tel­lec­tu­als of the 20th Cen­tu­ry, and in lit­er­a­ture and the arts, Sobers takes his place along­side our great No­bel Lau­re­ates, West In­di­an writ­ers, Vidya Naipaul and Derek Wal­cott.

Every World Cup we have ever wit­nessed leaves be­hind mo­ments that be­come part of foot­ball his­to­ry. All the goals, the con­tro­ver­sies, the he­roes, and the heart­breaks.