ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Young­sters Jew­el An­drew and Ac­k­eem Au­guste, along with all-rounder Shamar Springer have been draft­ed in­to the West In­dies squad for the up­com­ing T20I se­ries against Sri Lan­ka, which bowls off on Thurs­day.

Trinidad and To­ba­go darts rep­re­sen­ta­tives Joshua Bal­four and James Walk­lin de­part­ed for Frank­furt, Ger­many, where they are set to make his­to­ry as the first pair to rep­re­sent the twin-is­land re­pub­lic at the 2026 BetVic­tor World Cup of Darts.

The gen­er­al con­sen­sus in any sport is, ‘With­out the in­jec­tion of youth, the sport will even­tu­al­ly fade away’. Well, the Bil­liards (Pool) com­mu­ni­ty got a snap­shot in­to the fu­ture of their sport last Wednes­day night at Mr Bil­liards Sig­na­ture Pool Hall in Champs Fleurs, where sev­er­al en­ti­ties came to­geth­er to show­case the game amongst the youth.

Po­lice Ser­vice blanked Fa­ti­ma 4-0 to stay in the Men's Open Di­vi­sion of the T&T Hock­ey Board (TTHB) Out­door Sev­en-A-Side League ti­tle race at the Na­tion­al Hock­ey Cen­tre in Tacarigua on Sun­day.

T&T’s sprint star Michelle-Lee Ahye of Mem­phis Pi­o­neers and Rev­ell Web­ster of Con­corde Ath­let­ics Club sped to vic­to­ry in the re­spec­tive women’s and men’s Open 100-me­tre events at the Abi­lene Wild­cats De­on Lendore Clas­sic, held at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain, on Sat­ur­day.

El­isha Greene Jr and An­nel­yse Wat­son were crowned na­tion­al cham­pi­ons in the tinymites di­vi­sion when the T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion held its Na­tion­al Road Race Cham­pi­onships at the Bri­an Lara Boule­vard on Sun­day.

KINGSTON – With on­ly one game of their One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) se­ries against Sri Lan­ka be­ing played, West In­dies white-ball cap­tain Shai Hope has stressed the im­por­tance of the up­com­ing five-match se­ries against New Zealand to­wards the re­gion­al team au­to­mat­i­cal­ly qual­i­fy­ing for the 2027 ICC World Cup.

The ug­ly side of the beau­ti­ful game grabbed cen­trestage in the T&T Women's League Foot­ball (WoLF) Trinidad Group on Sun­day, when the en­counter be­tween hosts Point Pi­o­neers and the vis­it­ing Trend­set­ter Hawks end­ed in a mass brawl at Ma­haica Sport­ing Com­plex in Point Fortin.

Jereem "The Dream" Richards de­liv­ered a sea­son’s best (SB) time of 44.87 sec­onds in the men’s 400-me­tre fi­nal to land the bronze medal in Sun­day’s Di­a­mond League event in Stock­holm, Swe­den. The re­sult fell nice­ly in line with the favourable start he has had this year and could sig­nal a build-up to much larg­er things in the fu­ture.

The world is brac­ing for a mas­sive sum­mer of sport­ing dra­ma. While a large share of glob­al at­ten­tion is locked on the build-up and spec­ta­cle of the up­com­ing FI­FA Men’s World Cup in the USA, Cana­da, and Mex­i­co from June 12 to Ju­ly 19, Eng­land and Wales will host the 10th edi­tion of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup from June 12 to Ju­ly 5, 2026. This tour­na­ment is primed to keep the rev­o­lu­tion in women’s crick­et rolling with an all-round demon­stra­tion of the high-qual­i­ty skills of the mod­ern game.

HAM­BAN­TO­TA – An­jala Ban­dara’s su­perb, un­beat­en cen­tu­ry led an im­pres­sive fight­back by Sri Lan­ka Emerg­ing Play­ers against the West In­dies Acad­e­my on the open­ing day of their first un­of­fi­cial ‘Test’ in Sri Lan­ka on Mon­day.

CARDIFF – Bhar­ti Ful­mali scored a half-cen­tu­ry and Shreyan­ka Patil grabbed four wick­ets to guide In­dia Women to a com­fort­able 26-run vic­to­ry over West In­dies Women in their warm-up match in Wales on Mon­day, ahead of the start of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup.