MOUNT MAUN­GANUI, New Zealand - A green-tinged Bay Oval strip at Mount Maun­ganui promised a bowler’s par­adise.

Af­ter 63 years of in­de­pen­dence, we have nav­i­gat­ed our­selves in­to a swamp - eco­nom­ic, so­ciopo­lit­i­cal and moral. And every se­ri­ous com­men­ta­tor is at risk, with every hon­est com­men­tary that holds up the mir­ror for so­ci­ety to look at it­self, of cre­at­ing their own trib­u­tary to the riv­er of neg­a­tive dis­course that in­un­dates us dai­ly in the lega­cy and so­cial me­dia.

MOUNT MAUN­GANUI - West In­dies were left to toil un­der a re­lent­less New Zealand sun on the open­ing day of the third and fi­nal Test at Bay Oval in New Zealand, as the hosts seized to­tal con­trol with a com­mand­ing bat­ting dis­play, fin­ish­ing the day on a for­mi­da­ble 334 for the loss of just one wick­et.

ABU DHABI – The Abu Dhabi Knight Rid­ers pro­duced a nail-bit­ing dis­play of pow­er-hit­ting and nerve to over­come the Gulf Gi­ants by four wick­ets at the Za­yed Crick­et Sta­di­um in the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates on Thurs­day, vault­ing from sixth to fourth in the ILT20 points ta­ble.

MI­A­MI, Flori­da – The cur­tains have closed on a thrilling 2025 Con­ca­caf Caribbean Cup, con­clud­ing with Ja­maica’s Mount Pleas­ant FA hoist­ing its maid­en tro­phy.

The fu­ture of T&T foot­ball was on full dis­play this past week­end as the third edi­tion of the Next Lev­el Per­for­mance (NLP) Com­bine con­clud­ed at the De­fence Force Train­ing Ground.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Af­ter lead­ing the West In­dies Un­der-19s to se­ries wins over Sri Lan­ka and Eng­land, Joshua Dorne will cap­tain the side at next year’s ICC Crick­et World Cup.

Mount Maun­ganui – New Zealand have re­called spin­ner Ajaz Pa­tel and wick­et­keep­er-bat­ter Tom Blun­dell to their squad for the de­ci­sive third Test against the West In­dies, start­ing on Wednes­day at Bay Oval in New Zealand.

MOUNT MAUN­GANUI – West In­dies as­sis­tant coach Floyd Reifer has is­sued a blunt as­sess­ment of his bat­ting unit ahead of the de­ci­sive third and fi­nal Test against New Zealand, start­ing Wednes­day at Bay Oval in New Zealand.

DUBAI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – The 2026 In­di­an Pre­mier League (IPL) auc­tion de­liv­ered seis­mic shocks and strate­gic steals, head­lined by Kolkata Knight Rid­ers (KKR) mak­ing Aus­tralia’s Cameron Green the most ex­pen­sive over­seas play­er of all time, while the West In­dies’ sea­soned stars found new homes af­ter in­tense bid­ding wars.

​Hu­man Re­source (HR) cap­i­tal is crit­i­cal. But is its im­por­tance over­rat­ed or un­der­rat­ed in the world of sports, and per­haps in most or­gan­i­sa­tions?

ABU DHABI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – The Desert Vipers’ un­beat­en run came to a dra­mat­ic, nail-bit­ing end at the Za­yed Crick­et Sta­di­um in the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates on Tues­day night, as the Abu Dhabi Knight Rid­ers, with West In­di­ans An­dre Rus­sell, Ja­son Hold­er, Sher­fane Ruther­ford and Sunil Nar­ine, clinched a stun­ning one-run vic­to­ry to hand the league lead­ers their first de­feat of the In­ter­na­tion­al League (ILT20) sea­son.