HARARE, Zim­bab­we – Jahzara Clax­ton’s fine all-around ef­fort guid­ed West In­dies Women to a com­fort­able eight-wick­et win over Zim­bab­we Women in the open­ing T20I on Sat­ur­day.

NEW CHANDI­GARH, In­dia – Hav­ing ar­rived in In­dia to the news of a sub­stan­tial pay cut, West In­dies head coach Daren Sam­my be­lieves his troops have per­formed ad­mirably un­der try­ing cir­cum­stances, even though re­sults have not gone their way.

New lead­ers of the Sports Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go (SporTT) Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) Pre­mier­ship Di­vi­sion, St Mary’s Col­lege, could be in for the test of their lives when they face debu­tants Hillview Col­lege from 3.40 pm at their Ser­pen­tine Road grounds in St Clair, Port-of-Spain.

West In­dies’ in­abil­i­ty to de­fend 405 against In­dia in Guwa­hati on Wednes­day has raised more ques­tions than an­swers, par­tic­u­lar­ly about bowlers’ abil­i­ty to op­er­ate ef­fec­tive­ly on in­creas­ing­ly bats­man-friend­ly pitch­es.

The Na­tion­al Mick­ey Mouse League of Darts pro­duced an­oth­er night of dra­ma on Match-day six at at the Kos­mos Club in Port-of-Spain on Sep­tem­ber 29, with the A Di­vi­sion race tight­en­ing at the top while Scor­pi­ons and Bul­lz I con­tin­ued their com­mand­ing runs in the B and C Di­vi­sions.

T&T’s se­nior foot­ballers were beat­en 1-0 by Cu­ra­cao in Thurs­day night's Con­ca­caf Na­tions League (CNL), group A en­counter at the Ergilio Ha­to Sta­di­um in Willem­stad. The re­sult push­es the So­ca War­riors clos­er to rel­e­ga­tion from League A to League B. Coach Derek King’s men have now lost all three match­es in the tour­na­ment and re­main on ze­ro points, the same as both Cos­ta Ri­ca and Nicaragua, who were sched­uled to face each oth­er at 10 pm on Thurs­day, at Nicaragua’s Na­tion­al Foot­ball Sta­di­um.

DUBAI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – Bar­ba­di­an left-arm pac­er Ja­keem Pol­lard was one of on­ly five West In­di­ans snapped up at the ILT20 auc­tion on Thurs­day.

HARARE, Zim­bab­we – Fol­low­ing a suc­cess­ful One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) se­ries, West In­dies Women’s head coach Shane Deitz is ex­pect­ing the younger play­ers to come to the fore in their up­com­ing T20I se­ries against Zim­bab­we Women.

DUBAI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – The West In­dies’ hopes of hav­ing home ad­van­tage in next year’s World Cup Qual­i­fiers have been dashed with the ICC re­veal­ing that South Africa and Namib­ia will co-host the event in Feb­ru­ary.

MAN­CHES­TER, Eng­land – Ja­maican in­ter­na­tion­al Khadi­ja "Bun­ny" Shaw scored an im­por­tant sec­ond half goal to en­sure Man­ches­ter City and Re­al Madrid played to a 1-1 draw in the Women’s Cham­pi­ons League in Eng­land on Thurs­day.

SAN JUAN – Guyana have jumped to the top of Group A in League B af­ter thump­ing Do­mini­ca 5-1 to reg­is­ter their third suc­ces­sive win in the CON­CA­CAF Na­tions League in Puer­to Ri­co on Thurs­day.

Too much foot­ball. World Cup 2026 still lingers in mem­o­ry and we are now faced with a glut of in­ter­na­tion­al friend­lies, AF­CON qual­i­fy­ing, and Con­ca­caf and UE­FA Na­tions League match­es in­volv­ing teams seek­ing re­demp­tion from World Cup fail­ure or be­gin­ning new World Cup cy­cles with new play­ers un­der new coach­es.