ST. JOHN’S, An­tigua – It is no se­cret that West In­dies fast-bowl­ing great Sir Andy Roberts does not mince words when it comes to crit­i­cis­ing play­ers, coach­es and even ad­min­is­tra­tors with re­gards to West In­dies crick­et.

Min­is­ter of Sports & Youth Af­fairs Phillip Watts said he ful­ly sup­ports the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion’s (TTFA) plans to re­brand the na­tion­al men’s foot­ball team fol­low­ing the con­tro­ver­sy over roy­al­ties for the use of the “So­ca War­riors” nick­name.

GEORGE­TOWN – The Guyana Ama­zon War­riors se­cured their spot in the Exxon­Mo­bil Guyana Glob­al Su­per League (GSL) fi­nal with a com­mand­ing four-wick­et vic­to­ry over the Ho­bart Hur­ri­canes XI, tri­umph­ing with 21 balls to spare here at The Guyana Na­tion­al Sta­di­um Wednes­day night.

T&T Un­der-19 women crick­eters won their sec­ond match of the West In­dies U-19 Ris­ing Stars tour­na­ment at the Na­tion­al Crick­et Cen­tre (NCC) in Bal­main, Cou­va yes­ter­day and booked their places to play for third place against Ja­maica Sat­ur­day.

The T&T trio of Je­lani Nedd, Jo­van Ram­roop and Ju­dah Nev­er­son were still in con­tention for the gold medal in the Men's Team Sprint af­ter two rounds of com­pe­ti­tion at the Pan Amer­i­can Youth Track Cham­pi­onship at Lega­do’s mod­ern Velo­drome or­gan­ised by the Pe­ru­vian Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion on Fri­day.

T&T's top-ranked golfer Chris Richards Jr will be aim­ing for a third straight T&T Golf As­so­ci­a­tion (TTGA) To­ba­go Golf Open ti­tle when the tour­na­ment tees off at the Plan­ta­tions Golf Course, Mag­dale­na Beach and Re­sort in Low­lands, To­ba­go Fri­day.

The 37-year-old Rus­sell, who has rep­re­sent­ed the West In­dies in more than 140 in­ter­na­tion­al match­es over a 15-year ca­reer and was part of the 2012 and 2016 teams that won the T20 World Cup, de­scribed it as an ho­n­our to have rep­re­sent­ed the re­gion­al team.

Shaz­a­ad Ali and Anand Samuel emerged as the win­ners of the in­au­gur­al Con­flict Women Char­i­ty Golf Tour­na­ment at the Brechin Cas­tle Golf Course in Cou­va on Sat­ur­day (Ju­ly 12).

T&T se­nior women's vol­ley­ball team will hope to serve off their cam­paign at the pres­ti­gious NORCE­CA Women’s Fi­nal Four tour­na­ment against Mex­i­co in the open­ing match at the Juan Aubin Cruz Abreu Col­i­se­um, Ma­n­ati in Puer­to Ri­co Fri­day from 6 pm.

The “So­ca War­riors” nick­name has been a pow­er­ful sym­bol of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s foot­ball pride for some time now. How­ev­er, the dis­tin­guished ti­tle is now at the cen­tre of con­tro­ver­sy. The de­bate has shift­ed from the foot­ball field to the of­fices of David Nakhid, the Par­lia­men­tary Sec­re­tary in the Min­istry of Sport and Youth Af­fairs, who is will­ing to work to re­solve the dis­pute over the “So­ca War­riors” nick­name for the Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­al foot­ball team. The T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) and for­mer sports broad­cast­er Sel­wyn Melville, who holds the trade­mark rights to the name, have been un­able to reach an agree­ment. Nakhid, a for­mer na­tion­al play­er of the T&T se­nior men’s team, has called a meet­ing to dis­cuss the mat­ter and has em­pha­sised the im­por­tance of the nick­name to the na­tion­al iden­ti­ty and brand.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – West In­dies’ pow­er­ful bat­ting all-rounder An­dre Rus­sell is re­port­ed­ly on the verge of re­tir­ing from in­ter­na­tion­al crick­et.

27. Yes, 27 all out in a Test match. This isn't a re­al score. I be­lieve this is Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) con­duct­ing a so­cial ex­per­i­ment to gauge the ex­tent of how much pain an en­tire re­gion can en­dure.