Con­grat­u­la­tions to the West In­dies on a fan­tas­tic per­for­mance to come back and win the One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) se­ries 2-1 against Pak­istan. Re­mark­ably, this was the West In­dies’ first ODI se­ries win against Pak­istan in 34 years. There were ex­cel­lent per­for­mances through­out the team in the last two games, with Jay­den Seales, Shai Hope, Ros­ton Chase, and Justin Greaves de­liv­er­ing stand­out per­for­mances. One can on­ly hope that the play­ers now un­der­stand the high lev­el of con­sis­ten­cy it takes to win an ODI se­ries and, hav­ing tast­ed vic­to­ry, that this is a sign of things to come.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua– Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) pres­i­dent, Dr Kishore Shal­low has laud­ed for­mer Bar­ba­dos Crick­et As­so­ci­a­tion (BCA) pres­i­dent, Conde Ri­ley for his ster­ling con­tri­bu­tion to the sport.

The Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) bowls off on Thurs­day night at Warn­er Park in St Kitts, with the home team, St Kitts and Nevis Pa­tri­ots, fac­ing the An­tigua Bar­bu­da Fal­cons.

Yes­ter­day, Mon­day, Au­gust 11, was World Steel­pan Day. It’s a day that has sig­nif­i­cance for T&T. That sig­nif­i­cance is one of the rea­sons I choose to re­flect, in par­tic­u­lar, on “Pan on De Podi­um” and the jour­ney to get­ting the steel­pan ver­sion of the na­tion­al an­them played on the podi­um.

With not on­ly their se­ries against Pak­istan on the line but au­to­mat­ic qual­i­fi­ca­tion for the 2027 World Cup, West In­dies all-rounder Ros­ton Chase says it’s im­por­tant that they get max­i­mum points from every One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) they play go­ing for­ward.

The Unit Trust Cor­po­ra­tion (UTC) has part­nered with the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) for the 2025 sea­son of the Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL T20). The part­ner­ship was ce­ment­ed with a for­mal con­tract sign­ing re­cent­ly.

T&T swim­mers Nikoli Black­man and Zuri Fer­gu­son both missed out on adding to this coun­try’s lone medal when they placed fourth in their re­spec­tive fi­nals at the sec­ond edi­tion of the Ju­nior Pan Amer­i­can Games at the Olympic Aquat­ic Cen­tre in Asun­cion, Paraguay, Mon­day night.

Crick­et West In­dies’ (CWI) chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer, Chris Dehring has re­vealed that while “around 100” is­sues had been iden­ti­fied as the rea­sons be­hind the de­cline in West In­dies crick­et, in­suf­fi­cient fa­cil­i­ties, skill de­fi­cien­cies in play­ers and the qual­i­ty of do­mes­tic com­pe­ti­tions were among some of the main caus­es.

T&T De­fence Force women went one bet­ter than last year when they out­classed Grena­da 3-0 to take home the ti­tle in the six-team 3W’s Tour­na­ment host­ed by the T&T De­fence Force FC at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo, on Sun­day.

Ce­cil Forde, pres­i­dent of the T&T Box­ing As­so­ci­a­tion (TT­BA), is mak­ing an­oth­er plea to Min­is­ter of Sports and Youth Af­fairs Phillip Watts to make ur­gent rep­re­sen­ta­tion for the T&T Box­ing Board to be ap­point­ed very soon.

T&T’s Davis Cup cap­tain Dun­stan De­noon says he was pos­i­tive about the progress made by his team dur­ing the 2025 Davis Cup Amer­i­c­as Zone Group IV Tour­na­ment, which end­ed at the Na­tion­al Rac­quet Cen­tre in Or­ange Grove, Tacarigua, on Sat­ur­day.

Easy go­ing for E-Z Lines as ti­tle glo­ry is on­ly two game weeks away. Match-day 13 of the Na­tion­al Mixed For­mat league of Darts was host­ed by the T&T Darts As­so­ci­a­tion (TT­DA) at No 36 New Street, Port-of-Spain, on Au­gust 4.