BRIDGETOWN – Nicholas Kir­ton, the cap­tain of Cana­da’s crick­et team, is in po­lice cus­tody as he as­sists po­lice in re­la­tion to a drug charge.

The de­cline of good gov­er­nance and the rise of in­sti­tu­tion­al cor­rup­tion in the sport and Olympic move­ment should be a cause for con­cern sim­ply be­cause it’s so per­va­sive.

HAL­LAN­DALE BEACH – Bar­ba­di­an cham­pi­on train­er Saffie Joseph Jr cap­tured his fourth con­sec­u­tive Cham­pi­onship Meet ti­tle and his 12th con­sec­u­tive ti­tle over­all at Gulf­stream Park in Flori­da over the week­end.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – The West In­dies will have a new Test cap­tain when it takes on Aus­tralia in the sum­mer fol­low­ing the shock res­ig­na­tion of Kraigg Brath­waite on Mon­day.

Three sec­ond-half goals from the boot of Ash­lyn An­der­son in the 63rd minute, Micay­la John­son in the 78th and Chloe Sadler in the 90th minute shat­tered a stur­dy T&T de­fen­sive wall and earned the Unit­ed States a 3-0 vic­to­ry over T&T’s So­ca Princess­es when the fi­nal round of the CON­CA­CAF World Cup Qual­i­fiers in Group C kicked off at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Bal­main, Cou­va on Monday.

GUWA­HATI - West In­dies bats­man Shim­ron Het­my­er man­aged to on­ly con­tribute 19 runs from 16 balls, but that helped his Ra­jasthan Roy­als side se­cure their first win in this year’s In­di­an Pre­mier League (IPL), fol­low­ing a six-run win over the Chen­nai Su­per Kings (CSK) in In­dia on Sun­day.

MIC Cen­tral FC Re­boot got a goal on each side of the half from mid­field­er John-Paul Rochford and Kevon "Show­time" Wood­ley, re­spec­tive­ly, in shut­ting out Ea­gles FC 2-0 and mov­ing to sec­ond in Tier I on the T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League stand­ings.

Safe­guard­ing, play­er care and well­be­ing man­ag­er at the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) Gary St Rose will head out to Zurich for sev­er­al months at the head­quar­ters of FI­FA to work di­rect­ly with foot­ball's world gov­ern­ing body.

Un­like their men’s coun­ter­part, who played their first Test match in 1928, the West In­dies women crick­eters played their first Test in 1976, the same year the team was formed. Pri­or to the for­ma­tion of the West In­dies women’s team in 1976, Ja­maica and T&T com­pet­ed sep­a­rate­ly in the in­au­gur­al Women’s Crick­et World Cup (60 overs) in Eng­land in 1973.

GEORGE­TOWN – The Guyana Crick­et Board (GCB) has an­nounced a 13-man squad for the Guyana Harpy Ea­gles’ fi­nal two rounds of the 2025 West In­dies Cham­pi­onships, with key changes fol­low­ing the ab­sence of star spin­ner Gu­dakesh Motie, who has fran­chise crick­et com­mit­ments and open­er Tage­nar­ine Chan­der­paul, who is said to be car­ry­ing an in­jury.

ST JOHN’S – Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) has tak­en an­oth­er bold step in cham­pi­oning di­ver­si­ty and pro­gres­sive gov­er­nance by reap­point­ing three ac­com­plished women to its Board of Di­rec­tors.

Na­tion­al Un­der-17 coach Ayan­na Rus­sell and her charges in­tend to be dis­ci­plined in their ap­proach to the Unit­ed States when the teams tan­gle at 7 pm Mon­day night at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Bal­main, Cou­va, in Group C of the fi­nal round of the Con­ca­caf World Cup Qual­i­fiers.