BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – West In­dies cap­tain Kieron Pol­lard has blast­ed the qual­i­ty of the Kens­ing­ton Oval pitch in Bar­ba­dos as “un­ac­cept­able for in­ter­na­tion­al crick­et”, fol­low­ing his side’s 2-1 de­feat in the three-match One-Day se­ries against Aus­tralia.

BRIDGETOWN – Head coach Phil Sim­mons is con­fi­dent the one-day se­ries de­feat to Aus­tralia will have lit­tle or no im­pact on West In­dies’ per­for­mance in the four-match Twen­ty20 In­ter­na­tion­al se­ries against Pak­istan start­ing in Bar­ba­dos on Wednes­day.

Ju­do­ka Gabriel­la Wood is set to un­leash more than five years of in­tense prepa­ra­tion, dur­ing her much-await­ed de­but per­for­mance at the Tokyo Olympic Games in Japan.

TOKYO – At the age of eight, Bermu­di­an triath­lete Flo­ra Duffy dreamt of be­com­ing an Olympic cham­pi­on.

AR­LING­TON, Texas, USA – Ja­maica’s Reg­gae Boyz missed out on the se­mi-fi­nals of the CON­CA­CAF Gold Cup for the first time in six years when they crashed to a 1-0 de­feat to the Unit­ed States in a tense quar­ter-fi­nal on Sun­day night.

Box­ing pun­dits would say T&T's Aaron Prince was the cause of his own demise. And it might well be so.

There are con­cerns that an agree­ment by the FI­FA-ap­point­ed Nor­mal­i­sa­tion Com­mit­tee to se­lect an all-lo­cal staff to sup­port coach Welsh­man James Thomas and the T&T Se­nior Women's team, will not be up­held.

T&T sailor An­drew Lewis en­dured an­oth­er tough day in the men's one-per­son dinghy laser event, end­ing with a pile of points in race three on Mon­day morn­ing at the Olympic Games in Tokyo.

The Fut­sal As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (FATT) will host the sec­ond edi­tion of Kids’ Con­nect – a se­ries of free vir­tu­al Men­tal Health we­bi­na­rs for chil­dren from Au­gust 2 to 6.

The T&T Vol­ley­ball Fed­er­a­tion (TTVF) is seek­ing the sup­port of cor­po­rate T&T as they at­tempt to raise TT$200,000 to com­plete their bud­get to par­tic­i­pate in three ma­jor up­com­ing in­ter­na­tion­al tour­na­ments.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Com­posed half-cen­turies from Nicholas Pooran and Ja­son Hold­er helped West In­dies pro­duce a gal­lant fight­back, as the home side beat Aus­tralia by four wick­ets in Sat­ur­day’s sec­ond Day/night One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al to set up a se­ries de­cider on Mon­day.

Bat­tling cramps among oth­er is­sues, T&T cy­clist Te­niel Camp­bell couldf not cap­i­talise on a rel­a­tive­ly de­cent start she got at the Women's Road Race at the Fu­ji In­ter­na­tion­al Speed­way of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo Japan on Sun­day.