DUBAI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – Bar­ba­di­an left-arm pac­er Ja­keem Pol­lard was one of on­ly five West In­di­ans snapped up at the ILT20 auc­tion on Thurs­day.

Too much foot­ball. World Cup 2026 still lingers in mem­o­ry and we are now faced with a glut of in­ter­na­tion­al friend­lies, AF­CON qual­i­fy­ing, and Con­ca­caf and UE­FA Na­tions League match­es in­volv­ing teams seek­ing re­demp­tion from World Cup fail­ure or be­gin­ning new World Cup cy­cles with new play­ers un­der new coach­es.

MAN­CHES­TER, Eng­land – Ja­maican in­ter­na­tion­al Khadi­ja "Bun­ny" Shaw scored an im­por­tant sec­ond half goal to en­sure Man­ches­ter City and Re­al Madrid played to a 1-1 draw in the Women’s Cham­pi­ons League in Eng­land on Thurs­day.

SAN JUAN – Guyana have jumped to the top of Group A in League B af­ter thump­ing Do­mini­ca 5-1 to reg­is­ter their third suc­ces­sive win in the CON­CA­CAF Na­tions League in Puer­to Ri­co on Thurs­day.

T&T’s se­nior foot­ballers were beat­en 1-0 by Cu­ra­cao in Thurs­day night's Con­ca­caf Na­tions League (CNL), group A en­counter at the Ergilio Ha­to Sta­di­um in Willem­stad. The re­sult push­es the So­ca War­riors clos­er to rel­e­ga­tion from League A to League B. Coach Derek King’s men have now lost all three match­es in the tour­na­ment and re­main on ze­ro points, the same as both Cos­ta Ri­ca and Nicaragua, who were sched­uled to face each oth­er at 10 pm on Thurs­day, at Nicaragua’s Na­tion­al Foot­ball Sta­di­um.

DUBAI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – The West In­dies’ hopes of hav­ing home ad­van­tage in next year’s World Cup Qual­i­fiers have been dashed with the ICC re­veal­ing that South Africa and Namib­ia will co-host the event in Feb­ru­ary.

HARARE, Zim­bab­we – Fol­low­ing a suc­cess­ful One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) se­ries, West In­dies Women’s head coach Shane Deitz is ex­pect­ing the younger play­ers to come to the fore in their up­com­ing T20I se­ries against Zim­bab­we Women.

Win­ston Sobers re­tained his po­si­tion as chair­man of the North Zone of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Crick­et Board at its An­nu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing (AGM) at the Queen’s Park Oval on Sat­ur­day.

Na­tion­al coach Derek King faces more than a com­fort­ing re­sult against Cu­raçao when the teams meet at 6 pm Thurs­day (Oc­to­ber 1) af­ter­noon at the Es­ta­dio Ergilio Ha­to, Willem­stad, in Group A of the CON­CA­CAF Na­tions League.

A brace from sub­sti­tute Jay­don Car­ring­ton helped St Bene­dict’s Col­lege to record a con­vinc­ing 4-0 drub­bing of Ari­ma North Sec­ondary School, known as ‘The Di­al Dy­namos’ in the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) Pre­mier­ship Di­vi­sion, at the Ari­ma Velo­drome, Wednes­day (Sep­tem­ber 30).

NEW CHANDI­GARH, In­dia – In­di­an pac­er An­shul Kam­boj is in line to make his One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) de­but hav­ing been se­lect­ed to re­place the in­jured Prasidh Kr­ish­na for the third and fi­nal ODI against the West In­dies in In­dia on Sat­ur­day.

The West In­dies have touched down in In­dia for a gru­elling white-ball tour con­sist­ing of three One Day In­ter­na­tion­als (ODIs) and five Twen­ty20s (T20s). Tour­ing In­dia is like vol­un­tar­i­ly step­ping in­to a boil­ing pot of 100,000 scream­ing fans, pitch con­di­tions tai­lored specif­i­cal­ly for your demise, and a home team that op­er­ates with the cold ruth­less­ness of a cor­po­rate con­glom­er­ate.