Pick­ing in­jury-prone Ney­mar in Brazil’s World Cup squad seemed a risk, and so it proved just 10 days lat­er on Thurs­day.

DUBLIN, Ire­land – An im­pres­sive bat­ting per­for­mance by the West In­dies Women pow­ered them to a com­fort­able 25-run vic­to­ry over Pak­istan Women and their sec­ond straight win in the Evara Tri-Na­tion T20I se­ries here at Cas­tle Av­enue on Fri­day.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Crick­et West In­dies has un­veiled a 15-play­er squad for the 2026 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, set to take place across Eng­land and Wales from June 5 to Ju­ly 5, with a clear tac­ti­cal blue­print aimed at con­quer­ing Eng­lish con­di­tions. Hay­ley Matthews will cap­tain the side, with Chinelle Hen­ry serv­ing as her vice-cap­tain.

T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League (TTPFL) cham­pi­ons De­fence Force and run­ners-up Club San­do have been drawn in the same five-team Group A for the fourth edi­tion of the ten-team 2026 Con­ca­caf Caribbean Cup. The tour­na­ment takes place from Au­gust to De­cem­ber, with the top three clubs ul­ti­mate­ly qual­i­fy­ing for the 2027 Con­ca­caf Cham­pi­ons Cup.

DUBLIN – Hay­ley Matthews pro­duced a cap­tain’s knock of sheer class, smash­ing a bril­liant un­beat­en 82 to guide the West In­dies women’s team to a crush­ing eight-wick­et vic­to­ry over Ire­land in the open­ing match of the Women’s Tri-Se­ries in Ire­land on Thurs­day.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Caribbean foot­ball fans are set to ex­pe­ri­ence the 2026 World Cup like nev­er be­fore.

If you, like me, find your­self suf­fer­ing from "Post-League With­draw­al" now that the Eu­ro­pean foot­ball sea­son came to an end last week­end, you know the feel­ing. Out­side the Con­fer­ence League fi­nal, which was played yes­ter­day, the do­mes­tic cur­tains have closed, leav­ing us with on­ly the Cham­pi­ons League fi­nal this Sat­ur­day be­tween the French and de­fend­ing Eu­ro­pean Cham­pi­ons, Paris Saint-Ger­main, and the Eng­lish Cham­pi­ons, Ar­se­nal.

Zachary Julien has been on fire for Spar­tans TT to start the week as ac­tion in the Lin­coln “Crip­ple” Grif­fith North Zone Bas­ket­ball League at the Wood­brook Youth Fa­cil­i­ty in Port-of-Spain con­tin­ued.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Hav­ing been dom­i­nant at home in One Day In­ter­na­tion­als (ODIs) over the past three years, West In­dies head coach Daren Sam­my ex­pects that trend to con­tin­ue when they face Sri Lan­ka in a three-match se­ries in ex­act­ly a week.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s top am­a­teur golfers con­tin­ued their bat­tle for na­tion­al se­lec­tion on Thurs­day as day two of the T&T Golf As­so­ci­a­tion (TTGA) na­tion­al team tri­als teed off at the St An­drews Golf Course in Mo­ka.

BIRM­ING­HAM, Eng­land – When the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup be­gins at Edg­bas­ton on June 12, West In­di­an of­fi­cials Jacque­line Williams and Can­dace La Bor­de will take their place among an elite all-women pan­el of match of­fi­cials, with Williams mark­ing her fifth ap­pear­ance and La Bor­de get­ting her first taste of T20 ac­tion on crick­et’s grand­est glob­al stage.

DUBLIN, Ire­land – West In­dies Women’s cap­tain Hay­ley Matthews has made it clear that the team’s goal is to win all four of their match­es in their up­com­ing Tri-se­ries against Pak­istan and Ire­land.