Left-arm chi­na­man and goo­gly bowlers are hard to come by and this sea­son Pow­er­Gen and Na­pari­ma Col­lege play­er Ryan Ban­doo has been at his best.

The po­si­tion of head coach of the T&T Red Force ap­pears to be va­cant af­ter the T&T Crick­et Board’s of­fi­cial Face­book page post­ed an ap­pli­ca­tion late on Thurs­day af­ter­noon en­cour­ag­ing those in­ter­est­ed to be­come T&T se­nior team next head coach to ap­ply by vis­it­ing its web­site to ap­ply for the po­si­tion.

"A great rid­er and a gen­tle­man", was how for­mer cham­pi­on jock­ey and train­er Ed­mund De Fre­itas de­scribed his friend and foe on the track, Venice "Pap­py" Richards told Guardian Me­dia Sports, yes­ter­day.

It is be­lieved FI­FA's in­ter­ven­tion in­to lo­cal foot­ball through a Nor­mal­i­sa­tion Com­mit­tee, may or may not be a bless­ing in dis­guise.

Crick­et clubs in T&T have tak­en dif­fer­ence stance with re­gards how to deal with their for­eign play­ers in light of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic that has gripped the world.

Crick­et West In­dies pres­i­dent, Ricky Sker­ritt, has warned that the re­gion­al side’s climb up the rank­ings lad­der will be a grad­ual one, not­ing he did not an­tic­i­pate sig­nif­i­cant change dur­ing his first tenure.

As ex­pect­ed, the saga of the fired T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) ex­ec­u­tive con­tin­ues with them try­ing to raise funds to bat­tle the almighty FI­FA in court. I think all ob­jec­tive T&T foot­ball fans who have been for­tu­nate enough to fol­low the large­ly pop­u­lar (or lack there­of) for­mer ad­min­is­tra­tion and agree that what FI­FA did was un­just, but just how do you de­feat FI­FA? I have writ­ten enough about this, so best of luck to them!

It will take a grand ef­fort by foot­ball’s world gov­ern­ing body, FI­FA, for the now con­tro­ver­sial Home Of Foot­ball in Bal­main, Cou­va, to achieve the pur­pose it was built for, vice pres­i­dent of the Cou­va, Point Lisas Cham­ber of Com­merce and own­er of the Metro Ho­tel in Cou­va, Mukesh Ram­s­ingh told Guardian Me­dia Sports on Wednes­day.

Shymdeo Go­sine, pres­i­dent of the Cen­tral Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (CFA), has come out in sup­port of the FI­FA’s Nor­mal­i­sa­tion Com­mit­tee run­ning the af­fairs of T&T foot­ball.

Pres­i­dent of Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Ricky Sker­ritt has called on the re­gion's crick­eters to re­fo­cus on their game dur­ing this stress­ful pe­ri­od of quar­an­tine from the dread­ed COVID-19 virus.

For­mer West In­dies fast bowler Ian Bish­op main­tains the wrong call was made to over­haul the en­tire man­age­ment team of the se­nior men’s side on the eve of last year’s 50-overs World Cup in Eng­land.