With three days to go be­fore the Se­nior Pan Amer­i­can Cup in Mon­te­v­ideo flicks off at the Can­cha Ce­leste in Mon­te­v­ideo, Uruguay, on Thurs­day, both the T&T se­nior men’s and women’s hock­ey teams are yet to have con­fir­ma­tion of their de­par­ture to the tour­na­ment.

Kyra Williams claimed T&T’s sec­ond medal of the Ju­nior Pan Amer­i­can Track Cy­cling Cham­pi­onships in Li­ma, Pe­ru, on Sun­day night. The ris­ing T&T tal­ent sprint­ed to the bronze medal in the match sprint to add to the gold medal won by the trio of Ju­dah Nev­er­son, Je­lani Nedd and Javon Ram­roop in the team sprint.

Chris Richards Jr won the To­ba­go Golf Open Cham­pi­onships Di­vi­sion ti­tle for the third straight year when he scored 221 at this year’s edi­tion of the tour­na­ment at the Plan­ta­tion Golf Course, Mag­dale­na Beach and Golf Re­sort in Low­lands, To­ba­go from Ju­ly 18-20.

KINGSTON – Hero­ics from pac­er Ben Dwarshuis and bats­men Mitchell Owen and Cameron Green pro­pelled Aus­tralia to a tense three-wick­et win over the West In­dies in the open­ing T20I in Ja­maica on Sun­day.

BAS­SETERRE, St. Kitts – USA-1 and de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Bar­ba­dos will meet to de­ter­mine the cham­pi­ons of this year’s Ris­ing Stars Un­der-19 Men’s 50-over Cham­pi­onship fol­low­ing the com­ple­tion of the sev­enth and fi­nal pre­lim­i­nary round Mon­day (Ju­ly 21).

KINGSTON – West In­dies white-ball cap­tain Shai Hope has ad­mit­ted that his side’s bat­ting col­lapse in the fi­nal overs of their in­nings is to blame for their three-wick­et loss to Aus­tralia in the open­ing T20I at Sabi­na Park, Ja­maica, on Sun­day.

Thir­teen-time na­tion­al women’s ta­ble ten­nis sin­gles cham­pi­on Aleena Ed­wards is cur­rent­ly con­duct­ing a ten-day train­ing camp for Grena­da’s top 20 un­der-23 ta­ble ten­nis play­ers.

For­mer Prime Min­is­ter of Trinidad and To­ba­go, Dr Kei­th Row­ley has re­fut­ed claims by Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) pres­i­dent, Dr Kishore Shal­low that Cari­com gov­ern­ments were not do­ing enough to as­sist in the de­vel­op­ment of crick­et in the re­gion.

For­mer T&T Olympic box­er Kirt Sin­nette has been tipped as the chair­man of the T&T Box­ing Board of Con­trol, and as a di­rec­tor of the Sport Com­pa­ny of T&T Board.

Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Vice Pres­i­dent Az­im Bas­sarath slammed crit­ics of Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Pres­i­dent Dr Kishore Shal­low in the af­ter­math of West In­dies be­ing bowled out for 27 runs against Aus­tralia in the third and fi­nal Test at Sabi­na Park last week Mon­day.

ST. JOHN’S, An­tigua – It is no se­cret that West In­dies fast-bowl­ing great Sir Andy Roberts does not mince words when it comes to crit­i­cis­ing play­ers, coach­es and even ad­min­is­tra­tors with re­gards to West In­dies crick­et.

To­bag­on­ian Make­da Bain won all three of her fi­nals con­test­ed when the Sagi­cor Ju­nior Ten­nis Tour­na­ment end­ed at the Na­tion­al Rac­quet Cen­tre in Tacarigua Thursday.