GROS ISLET, St Lu­cia– Ke­shav Ma­haraj snatched a dra­mat­ic hat-trick in a dev­as­tat­ing five-wick­et haul as West In­dies suf­fered a 158-run crush­ing, half-hour be­fore tea on the fourth day of the sec­ond Test, to slide to a 2-0 se­ries white­wash on Mon­day.

As West In­dies Test crick­et ap­proach­es 100 years (2028), it is time­ly to serve recog­ni­tion up­on Trin­bag­on­ian play­ers who have con­tributed to the rich his­to­ry of a sport that has had telling im­pact on the lives of Caribbean peo­ple at home and in the di­as­po­ra.

New times are ex­pect­ed when the T&T cy­cling team of Olympian Njisane Phillip, Keron Bram­ble and Zion Puli­do jumps in­to ac­tion in the Team Sprint event of the Elite Pan Amer­i­can Track Cy­cling Cham­pi­onship on Fri­day in Li­ma, Pe­ru.

Sev­en T&T in­ter­na­tion­als, one shy of Ja­maica tal­ly were among 38 play­ers from 23 teams across the Unit­ed Soc­cer League Cham­pi­onship and USL League One were on Fri­day named in the pre­lim­i­nary ros­ters for the 2021 Con­ca­caf Gold Cup, set to be­gin next month across the USA.

No ath­lete was able to meet the au­to­mat­ic qual­i­fy­ing times for the up­com­ing Tokyo Games in Japan at the first of two Olympic Tri­als set by the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ics Ad­min­is­tra­tion of T&T (NAAATT), on Monday at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain.

T&T winger, Jo­evin Jones, played the fi­nal min­utes but it was not enough to help his In­ter Mi­a­mi CF from falling to a 1-0 loss to DC Unit­ed in Ma­jor League Soc­cer (MLS) on Sat­ur­day night.

T&T will be rep­re­sent­ed at the up­com­ing pres­ti­gious Davis Cup Qual­i­fiers and JITIC Un­der-14 boys and girls com­pe­ti­tions.

GROS ISLET – Shai Hope on Sat­ur­day lament­ed West In­dies’ “av­er­age” ef­fort with the bat, which he said had failed to do jus­tice to the out­stand­ing ef­fort by the home side’s bowlers in lim­it­ing South Africa’s on day two of the sec­ond Test.

GROS ISLET – West In­dies quicks spec­tac­u­lar­ly de­mol­ished South Africa on a dra­mat­ic, ab­bre­vi­at­ed third day in St Lu­cia on Sun­day, leav­ing them­selves with a vic­to­ry tar­get of 322 and set­ting up a grand­stand fin­ish to the de­ci­sive third Test at the Daren Sam­my Na­tion­al Sta­di­um.

Colum­bus Crew made the fi­nal game at His­toric Crew Sta­di­um a night to re­mem­ber, putting in per­haps their best per­for­mance of the year to cruise to a 2-0 vic­to­ry over Chica­go Fire on Sat­ur­day night.

Sprint­ers Devin Au­gus­tine and Shani­qua Bas­combe, the Youth Sports­man and Sports­woman of the Year, will race on Mon­day at the Olympic Tri­als be­ing host­ed by the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ics Ad­min­is­tra­tion of T&T (NAAATT) for the up­com­ing Tokyo Olympic Games in Japan.

New­ly ap­point­ed T&T men's se­nior team in­ter­im coach An­gus Eve en­joyed his first day on the job with a core of lo­cal­ly-based play­ers on Sun­day as they be­gin prepa­ra­tions for the 2021 Con­ca­caf Gold Cup pre­lim­i­nary qual­i­fiers.