In­ter­im pres­i­dent George Comis­siong and Dr. Ian Hy­po­lite will hope to­day that their re­spec­tive cam­paigns lead­ing up to Sat­ur­day's an­nu­al gen­er­al meet­ing (AGM) and elec­tion of of­fi­cers of the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ics Ad­min­is­tra­tions of T&T (NAAATT) will be enough to con­vince the gen­er­al mem­ber­ship rep­re­sent­ing 59 clubs that ei­ther team will have what it takes to gov­ern the sport over the next three years.

For­mer na­tion­al se­nior team cap­tain and Un­der-17 World Cham­pi­onship play­er Ken­wyne Jones has been ap­point­ed head coach of the se­nior women’s na­tion­al team.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – The high-pro­file trio of An­dre Rus­sell, Evin Lewis and Shim­ron Het­my­er have opt­ed out of the up­com­ing tour of Pak­istan “due to per­son­al rea­sons”, in the wake of the West In­dies’ ICC T20 World Cup de­ba­cle last month.

T&T vet­er­an mid­dle-block­er Marc-An­tho­ny Hon­ore and SL Ben­fi­ca made it a per­fect ten wins from as many match­es in their three-peat bid when the Por­tu­gal Vol­ley­ball Fed­er­a­tion Men’s Hon­da A-1 Di­vi­sion con­tin­ued on Wednes­day.

T&T’s cam­paign at the in­au­gur­al Ju­nior Pan Amer­i­can Games in Cali, Colom­bia got off to a very low-key start on Thurs­day morn­ing.

T&T rug­by women will make a switch from play­ing 10s rug­by to 12s rug­by, fol­low­ing a de­ci­sion by Rug­by Amer­i­c­as North (RAN) last week in Mi­a­mi at a Women's Fo­rum which dealt with strate­gic plan­ning and fol­lowed the or­gan­i­sa­tion's an­nu­al gen­er­al meet­ing (AGM).

Vac­ci­na­tion sta­tus will be waived for Un­der-19 crick­eters set to fly in­to T&T in Jan­u­ary for the In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil (ICC) Un­der-19 World Cup. How­ev­er, all oth­er vis­i­tors in­clud­ing ad­min­istar­tors and of­fi­cials will have to be ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed.

In­ter­im na­tion­al se­nior women’s team coach Ken­wyne Jones and his team will be hop­ing to end a four-match win­less run when T&T comes up against host Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic in the first of two friend­ly in­ter­na­tion­als in San Cristo­bal, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic on Fri­day evening.

GALLE, Sri Lan­ka – Wick­et­keep­er-bats­man Joshua Da Sil­va has urged greater fight and ap­pli­ca­tion for the sec­ond Test start­ing next Mon­day, in the wake of West In­dies’ crush­ing de­feat to Sri Lan­ka in the open­er.

GALLE – Nkrumah Bon­ner and Joshua Da Sil­va both struck half-cen­turies but man­aged on­ly to de­lay the in­evitable as West In­dies slumped to a heavy 187-run de­feat to Sri Lan­ka in the open­ing Test in Sri Lan­ka on Thurs­day.

T&T’s Dy­lan Carter and his Lon­don Roar team­mates con­tin­ued their dom­i­nance of the men’s 4x100 me­tres freestyle at the 2021 In­ter­na­tion­al Swim­ming League with yet an­oth­er vic­to­ry, on Thurs­day’s open­ing day of the fourth Match Day play­off semi­fi­nal in Eind­hoven, Hol­land.

GALLE – Feck­less West In­dies were star­ing at yet an­oth­er heavy de­feat on Sri Lankan soil af­ter suf­fer­ing an ap­palling sec­ond in­nings col­lapse on the penul­ti­mate day of the open­ing Test in Sri Lan­ka on Wednes­day.