FI­FA pres­i­dent Gi­an­ni In­fan­ti­no was re-elect­ed by ac­claim to an­oth­er four-year term on Thurs­day af­ter sug­gest­ing the fi­nan­cial re­sults un­der his lead­er­ship would keep an in­dus­try CEO in the job for life.

At long last, the high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed TT Pre­mier Foot­ball League (TTPFL) kicked off Fri­day at the Ma­haica Sport­ing Com­plex in Point Fortin.

De­spite the lack of com­pet­i­tive foot­ball in T&T, coach An­gus Eve’s men pro­duced two dis­ci­plined per­for­mances that earned them a 1-0 tri­umph in the two-match se­ries against Ja­maica in two in­ter­na­tion­al friend­ly match­es in Ja­maica.

EAST LON­DON – West In­dies start an­oth­er “new era” in One-day In­ter­na­tion­als when Shai Hope leads them in­to bat­tle for the first time against hosts South Africa on Thurs­day at Buf­fa­lo Park.

LA­HORE, Pak­istan – For­mer West In­dies white-ball cap­tain Kieron Pol­lard and West In­dies left-arm pac­er Shel­don Cot­trell com­bined to throt­tle Mul­tan Sul­tans in­to their third suc­ces­sive Pak­istan Su­per League with an 84-run win over de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons La­hore Qa­lan­dars on Wednes­day.

Kevin Sin­clair, Leon John­son, and An­tho­ny Bram­ble got half-cen­turies be­fore Guyana Harpy Ea­gles ca­pit­u­lat­ed to ex­pe­ri­enced leg-spin bowl­ing all-rounder Im­ran Khan and were bowled out against hosts T&T Red Force in the West In­dies Cham­pi­onship at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my (BLCA) in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do, Wednes­day.

Fire Ser­vices will be look­ing to rule in the Fast5 com­pe­ti­tion, set to un­fold in the Courts All Sec­tors Net­ball League on Sat­ur­day at the East­ern Re­gion­al In­door Sports Are­na in Tacarigua.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – In an at­tempt to en­er­gise the flag­ging for­tunes of its mar­quee men’s team, Crick­et West In­dies an­nounced on Wednes­day that it will adopt the mod­ern in­ter­na­tion­al trend of ap­point­ing sep­a­rate coach­es for the side’s red-ball and white-ball teams.

EAST LON­DON – In­juries have forced se­lec­tors to call up fast-bowl­ing all-rounder Wayne Par­nell and left-arm spin­ner Tabraiz Sham­si to the South Africa squad for the One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al se­ries against West In­dies start­ing in South Africa on Thurs­day.

Jor­dane Dook­ie re­mained on course to se­cure the triple crown in the Sun­shine Snacks Tran­quil­li­ty Open at Tran­quil­li­ty Ten­nis Courts, Vic­to­ria Av­enue, Port-of-Spain when she blanked Nao­mi Mo­hammed in their Women's Open quar­ter­fi­nal on Tues­day.

There is no high­er achieve­ment in the sport­ing world than to be an Olympic cham­pi­on. The five Olympic rings are a pow­er­ful glob­al brand. The Olympic Games is the largest event in the world. Where the In­ter­na­tion­al Olympic Com­mit­tee (IOC) lead oth­ers fol­low.

MUM­BAI – West In­dies cap­tain Hay­ley Matthews failed again with the bat but made a mas­sive im­pact with the ball, to help Mum­bai In­di­ans main­tain their un­beat­en run with a 55-run thrash­ing of Gu­jarat Gi­ants in the Women’s Pre­mier League in In­dia on Tues­day.