GROS ISLET, St Lu­cia – The Ja­maican women’s na­tion­al team etched their name in­to the his­to­ry books on Sat­ur­day with an as­ton­ish­ing 18-0 de­mo­li­tion of Do­mini­ca in the 2025/26 Con­ca­caf W Qual­i­fiers.

Na­tion­al women’s coach Dami­an Brig­gs is plan­ning to play an at­trac­tive, at­tack­ing brand of foot­ball when his charges square off with Bar­ba­dos in a Group F en­counter from 4 pm Mon­day at Kens­ing­ton Oval, in the Con­ca­caf World Cup Qual­i­fiers.

CHRISTCHURCH – As the West In­dies crick­et team puts the fin­ish­ing touch­es on their prepa­ra­tions for the first Test against New Zealand, wick­et-keep­er bats­man Tevin Im­lach ex­pressed a con­fi­dent and fo­cused mind­set, ac­knowl­edg­ing the unique chal­lenges of New Zealand con­di­tions while back­ing his team to com­pete.

The high­ly com­pet­i­tive and prof­itable na­ture of mod­ern sports puts sig­nif­i­cant pres­sure on ath­letes.

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand – West In­dies mid­dle-or­der bats­man, Kavem Hodge, be­lieves the team will be test­ed men­tal­ly in their up­com­ing three-match Test se­ries against New Zealand.

Skip­per Kyle May­ers and Leniko Bouch­er both blast­ed half-cen­turies as Bar­ba­dos Pride romped to a dom­i­nant nine-wick­et vic­to­ry over Trinidad and To­ba­go Red Force in a lop­sided CG Unit­ed Su­per50 Cup fi­nal at Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do on Sat­ur­day.

The Na­tion­al Pool League (NPL) 8 Ball com­pe­ti­tion is now in­to its 11th week, and not since round three has the Ex­pend­ables tast­ed vic­to­ry. The Andy "Breeze" Sir­ju cap­tained Ex­pend­ables, changed all that on Tues­day, as they se­cured a much-need­ed win, away from home, against the Knight Rid­ers II at the Lucky’s Sports Bar in Williamsville.

ST GEORGE’S – West In­dies Un­der-19 cap­tain, Joshua Dorne, cracked a scin­til­lat­ing, un­beat­en cen­tu­ry to lead his side to an im­pres­sive four-wick­et vic­to­ry over Eng­land Un­der-19s in the sixth Youth One Day In­ter­na­tion­al in Grena­da on Sat­ur­day.

​On De­cem­ber 6, San­ta Rosa Park in Ari­ma will be turned in­to a bat­tle­ground when the 2025 Grade One Stew­ards Cup is run off over 1,200 me­tres.

The pro­gramme to qual­i­fy rid­ers for the Olympic Games in 2028 in Los An­ge­les, Unit­ed States, is set to take a se­vere dent with the pend­ing court ac­tion be­tween the T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion and its elite rid­ers.

It was not a good night for the ‘STARS’ in the Na­tion­al Pool League, as all three teams bear­ing the name went down. The most sig­nif­i­cant of which was a top-of-the-ta­ble clash at Bil­liards Place in Aranguez be­tween sec­ond-placed Ri­valz and ta­ble top­pers Unit­ed Stars.

Mid­field­er Asha James re­turned to the T&T women’s team ahead of Mon­day’s open­ing World Cup Qual­i­fi­er against Bar­ba­dos in Kens­ing­ton Oval at 4pm.