T&T sprint­er Jereem Richards edged 100 me­tres Olympic cham­pi­on Noah Lyles of the USA to the win when both faced off in the Jesse Lou­bier men’s 300m fi­nal at the New Bal­ance In­door Grand Prix in Boston, Sat­urday (Jan­u­ary 24).

The Mar­vin Gor­don-coached T&T men’s Un­der-20 foot­ballers end­ed their three-match se­ries un­beat­en af­ter a 1-1 draw with Grena­da at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um, Cou­va, on Fri­day night.

WIND­HOEK, Namib­ia – In a rain-dis­rupt­ed clash that un­der­scored the grow­ing prowess of their young tal­ent, the West In­dies Un­der-19s se­cured a cru­cial 25-run vic­to­ry (DLS method) over Ire­land in the 26th match of the ICC Men’s Un­der-19 World Cup on Sun­day, pro­pelled by a mas­ter­class in spin bowl­ing from Mic­ah McKen­zie and Vi­tel Lawes.

GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana – Leg­endary for­mer West In­dies cap­tain, Sir Clive Lloyd be­lieves that the West In­dies have “a good chance” of mak­ing a deep run at the up­com­ing ICC Men’s T20 World Cup.

USA-based Jade Jones scored a goal and pro­vid­ed the oth­er as T&T's Un­der-17 girls' foot­ball team bat­tled to a 2-2 draw with host Cu­ra­cao in their open­ing match in Group F of the Con­ca­caf U-17 Women’s Cham­pi­onship at the Sta­dion Rig­naal Fran­cis­ca, Willem­stad, Cu­ra­cao on Sat­ur­day.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

KINGSTOWN – Aaliyah Al­leyne played a star­ring role with both bat and ball to car­ry Bar­ba­dos Women in­to the fi­nal of the T20 Blaze with a re­sound­ing 22-run vic­to­ry over de­fend­ing champs Guyana Women in St Vin­cent on Wednes­day.