KINGSTOWN – Shawnisha Hec­tor scored a match-win­ning half-cen­tu­ry to help the Lee­ward Is­lands Women main­tain their un­blem­ished record on their way to cap­tur­ing their first-ever T20 Blaze ti­tle with a tense six-run vic­to­ry over Bar­ba­dos Women via the Duck­worth/Lewis/Stern (DLS) method in St Vin­cent on Fri­day.

James Walk­lin and Kim­ber­li Ri­vas have of­fi­cial­ly set the pace for the 2026 darts sea­son, emerg­ing as the Men’s and Ladies’ Cham­pi­ons at the Trinidad and To­ba­go Darts As­so­ci­a­tion (TT­DA) Mixed For­mat Na­tion­al Open. Held on Tues­day (Jan­u­ary 13), at the Kos­mos Club in Port-of-Spain, the tour­na­ment served as the tra­di­tion­al cur­tain-rais­er to in­tro­duce the com­pet­i­tive for­mat for the year ahead.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Crick­et Board Pre­mier­ship Di­vi­sion sea­son is ex­pect­ed to bowl off with a bumper start at four venues across the coun­try on Sat­ur­day, as all nine teams will have most of their play­ers avail­able and seek­ing in­di­vid­ual mile­stones.

The Bil­liards Sports Or­ga­ni­za­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go, BSOTT, host­ed its sec­ond Mas­ters Cup tour­na­ment last week­end at the Pyra­mid Sports Bar in Gas­par­il­lo. Aaron Raghoo­nanan emerged the win­ner breez­ing through the two-day tour­na­ment un­de­feat­ed, win­ning all five of his match­es.

DUBAI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates—Fol­low­ing a dis­ap­point­ing per­for­mance in their just con­clud­ed T20I se­ries against Afghanistan, stand-in West In­dies cap­tain Bran­don King has ad­mit­ted that the re­gion­al team needs to make ma­jor im­prove­ments ahead of next month’s ICC Men’s T20 World Cup.

DUBAI – Shamar Springer’s hat-trick hero­ics bowled West In­dies to a mem­o­rable 15-run win to de­ny Afghanistan a se­ries sweep in the third and fi­nal T20I in the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates on Thurs­day.

The "usu­al sus­pects" – Nicholas Paul, Njisane Phillip, Makaira Wal­lace, Alexi Ramirez, and Te­niel Camp­bell – are as­sured of spots on the Trinidad and To­ba­go team for the Pan Amer­i­can Track Cy­cling Cham­pi­onships, sched­uled for Feb­ru­ary 16-22 in San­ti­a­go, Chile.

WIND­HOEK – Fu­elled by stand­out per­for­mances by open­er Zachary Carter and pac­er Shaquan Belle, the West In­dies Un­der-19s sailed in­to the Su­per Six phase of the ICC Men’s Un­der-19 World Cup on a win­ning note with a 55-run vic­to­ry over South Africa in Namib­ia on Thurs­day.

Min­is­ter of Sport and Youth Af­fairs, Phillip Watts, on Wednes­day, pre­sent­ed cel­e­brat­ed javelin throw­er and Sports Am­bas­sador Keshorn Wal­cott with a Na­tion­al In­cen­tive and Re­ward val­ued at TT$500,000.

In my last col­umn, I al­lowed my­self a mo­ment of op­ti­mism re­gard­ing the West In­dies Un­der-19 team com­pet­ing in the In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil (ICC) Un­der-19 World Cup.

Since mak­ing her West In­dies de­but as a teenag­er in 2014, Bar­ba­di­an all-rounder Hay­ley Matthews has hard­ly had a break.

KINGSTOWN, St Vin­cent – Ja­maica Women played spoil­er in the fi­nal pre­lim­i­nary round of the T20 Blaze, de­feat­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go Women by three wick­ets via the Duck­worth/Lewis/Stern method to end any hopes they had of qual­i­fy­ing for Fri­day’s fi­nal.