MOUNT MAUN­GANUI, New Zealand – West In­dies will re­quire a mir­a­cle if they are to record a se­ries-lev­el­ing vic­to­ry over New Zealand in the third and fi­nal Test, fol­low­ing an­oth­er su­perb per­for­mance by the home side’s open­ers on Sat­ur­day’s penul­ti­mate day.

New Tech­ni­cal Di­rec­tor Devin El­cock is em­brac­ing the op­por­tu­ni­ty to lead T&T foot­ball from a po­si­tion of de­vel­op­ment.

As the West In­dies pre­pare for the 2026 ICC T20 World Cup in In­dia, Feb­ru­ary 7-March 8, they would want to quick­ly for­get their 2025 per­for­mances. In five se­ries (2 home and 3 away), they played 19 match­es. They won sev­en (6), lost four­teen (12), and had one no-re­sult, end­ing with a win per­cent­age of 31.58%.

There are foot­ball peo­ple who blend in, and there are foot­ball peo­ple who leave an im­print. For­mer na­tion­al foot­ball cap­tain David Nakhid has al­ways be­longed firm­ly in the lat­ter cat­e­go­ry.

MOUNT MAUN­GANUI – The West In­dies’ bat­ters have start­ed strong­ly chas­ing New Zealand’s mam­moth first in­nings to­tal, to leave the game in the bal­ance at the end of play on the sec­ond day in New Zealand on Fri­day.

MOUNT MAUN­GANUI, New Zealand – Kavem Hodge scored a re­silient, un­beat­en cen­tu­ry as West In­dies made New Zealand toil for the en­tire day in a rare show of com­mit­ment by their bats­men, to leave the third Test in­ter­est­ing­ly poised af­ter Fri­day’s play.

MOUNT MAUN­GANUI - West In­dies were left to toil un­der a re­lent­less New Zealand sun on the open­ing day of the third and fi­nal Test at Bay Oval in New Zealand, as the hosts seized to­tal con­trol with a com­mand­ing bat­ting dis­play, fin­ish­ing the day on a for­mi­da­ble 334 for the loss of just one wick­et.

Af­ter 63 years of in­de­pen­dence, we have nav­i­gat­ed our­selves in­to a swamp - eco­nom­ic, so­ciopo­lit­i­cal and moral. And every se­ri­ous com­men­ta­tor is at risk, with every hon­est com­men­tary that holds up the mir­ror for so­ci­ety to look at it­self, of cre­at­ing their own trib­u­tary to the riv­er of neg­a­tive dis­course that in­un­dates us dai­ly in the lega­cy and so­cial me­dia.

ABU DHABI – The Abu Dhabi Knight Rid­ers pro­duced a nail-bit­ing dis­play of pow­er-hit­ting and nerve to over­come the Gulf Gi­ants by four wick­ets at the Za­yed Crick­et Sta­di­um in the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates on Thurs­day, vault­ing from sixth to fourth in the ILT20 points ta­ble.

MOUNT MAUN­GANUI, New Zealand - A green-tinged Bay Oval strip at Mount Maun­ganui promised a bowler’s par­adise.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Af­ter lead­ing the West In­dies Un­der-19s to se­ries wins over Sri Lan­ka and Eng­land, Joshua Dorne will cap­tain the side at next year’s ICC Crick­et World Cup.

The fu­ture of T&T foot­ball was on full dis­play this past week­end as the third edi­tion of the Next Lev­el Per­for­mance (NLP) Com­bine con­clud­ed at the De­fence Force Train­ing Ground.