DUBAI – West In­dies Test cap­tain Ja­son Hold­er made an in­stant im­pact in his first game of the In­di­an Pre­mier League sea­son, snatch­ing three wick­ets to help fire Sun­ris­ers Hy­der­abad to a com­fort­able eight-wick­et vic­to­ry over Jofra Archer’s Ra­jasthan Roy­als in the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates, Thurs­day.

Daymi­an Stew­art, for­mer pres­i­dent of the T&T Vol­ley­ball Fed­er­a­tion (TTVF), is one of five lo­cal of­fi­cials in the sport who will be con­test­ing for po­si­tions on the sport's top re­gion­al or­gan­i­sa­tion com­mis­sions at the North, Cen­tral Amer­i­ca and Caribbean Vol­ley­ball Con­fed­er­a­tion (NORCE­CA) Con­gress, this week­end.

It is a race against time for Point Fortin's first Home for Archery at Coro­na­tion Park, ahead of the open­ing day of the World In­door On­line Archery Se­ries on No­vem­ber 21-22.

I won­der if Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) lead se­lec­tor, Roger Harp­er, thinks West In­dies sup­port­ers are ig­no­rant when it comes to West In­dies crick­et?

T&T Power­boat icon Ken Charles has achieved al­most every­thing there is to achieve in power­boat rac­ing.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – For­mer West In­dies open­er, Phi­lo Wal­lace, has brand­ed as “weak” the Test team cho­sen for the New Zealand tour, and has es­pe­cial­ly blast­ed the in­clu­sion of fail­ing open­er John Camp­bell in the 15-man squad.

DUBAI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – Test cap­tain Ja­son Hold­er has urged au­thor­i­ties to keep the is­sues sur­round­ing racial jus­tice at the fore­front of sports af­ter he and West In­dies were this week ho­n­oured with the Pe­ter Smith Award by the Crick­et Writ­ers Club for their “trail­blaz­ing” tour of Eng­land last Ju­ly.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – Crick­et West In­dies pres­i­dent, Ricky Sker­ritt, says in­ter­na­tion­al crick­et could re­turn to the Caribbean as soon as the first quar­ter of next year but the chal­lenge re­mains the cre­ation of safe bio-se­cure “bub­bles” at Caribbean venues.

DUBAI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – Dash­ing West In­dies left-han­der Nicholas Pooran lashed his sec­ond half-cen­tu­ry of the In­di­an Pre­mier League to fire Kings XI Pun­jab to a con­vinc­ing five-wick­et vic­to­ry over Shim­ron Het­my­er’s Del­hi Cap­i­tals on Tues­day.

DUBAI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – West In­dies Test cap­tain Ja­son Hold­er has warned that the men­tal health of play­ers could be at risk if ad­just­ments are not made to the bio-se­cure “bub­bles” which have al­lowed for the re­sump­tion of crick­et amid the on­go­ing COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

A flat-out re­jec­tion of Jame­son Rigues, to fill the po­si­tion of in­ter­im pres­i­dent fol­low­ing the res­ig­na­tion of Kei­th Look Loy as pres­i­dent of the T&T Su­per League, seems to be head­ing for a show­down, or even in the court­room.

Na­tion­al se­nior net­baller Saman­tha Wal­lace has re-signed with New South Wales (NSW) Swifts for a fifth sea­son in the Sun­corp Su­per Net­ball (SSN) League.