The Ja­maica Tallawahs have an­nounced that they are re­tain­ing on­ly four Caribbean play­ers for 2020 Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League.

Queen's Park Crick­et Club (QPCC) quar­tet of ris­ing bat­ting star Joshua Da Sil­va, fast bowlers Shan­non Gabriel and An­der­son Philip mid­dle-or­der bats­man Dar­ren Bra­vo are among 30 play­ers named by the West In­dies se­lec­tors for the pend­ing tour of Eng­land this sum­mer.

The coro­n­avirus (COVID-19) pan­dem­ic has left the fi­nan­cial health of Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) in a state of ICU says, pres­i­dent Ricky Sker­ritt.

The ex­ec­u­tive of the T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB) met on Wednes­day and de­cid­ed that there will be no more crick­et for this year un­der its aegis, due to the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

The most lu­cra­tive crick­et league in the world, the In­di­an Pre­mier League (IPL), can save world crick­et dur­ing the fi­nan­cial cri­sis brought on by the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic. So says for­mer In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil (ICC) com­mit­tee mem­ber and for­mer pres­i­dent of Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Dave Cameron.

New Zealand-based T&T se­nior women team net­ballers, de­fend­er Daystar Swift and shoot­er Kali­fa Mc Collin are due to re­turn to ac­tive com­pe­ti­tion in Net­ball New Zealand's ANZ Pre­mier­ship on June 19.

The bat­tle rages on be­tween FI­FA, the ex-TTFA (T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion) ex­ec­u­tive and pe­ri­od­i­cal­ly, FI­FA’s im­posed Nor­mal­i­sa­tion Com­mit­tee. Hope­ful­ly, the gov­ern­ment has re­ceived the mes­sage and is stay­ing out.

West In­dies white-ball cap­tain Kieron Pol­lard wants to re­turn smiles to de­vot­ed fans of the re­gion­al side and even the cyn­i­cal ones.

The first batch of foot­ball uni­forms and gear to of­fi­cial­ly jump­start the deal be­tween UK sports­wear sup­pli­er Avec Sports and the oust­ed T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion un­der pres­i­dent William Wal­lace is set to ar­rive in T&T on June 1.

Talk had been cir­cu­lat­ing that the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) were look­ing to snap-up wick­et­keep­er/bats­man Nico­las Pooran for this year's Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) Twen­ty20 (T20) Tour­na­ment but it was un­found­ed as the T&T-born crick­eter re­mains with the Guyana Ama­zon War­riors, ho­n­our­ing the sec­ond year of his three-year con­tract.

The coro­n­avirus (COVID-19) pan­dem­ic has cre­at­ed ma­jor fi­nan­cial wor­ries in all sec­tors and sports in­clud­ed. West In­dies crick­et has not been spared so Crick­et West In­dies' (CWI) think-tank has gone in­to over­drive in an at­tempt to pre­vent a fi­nan­cial col­lapse.

With the eco­nom­ic de­struc­tion that the coro­n­avirus (COVID-19) pan­dem­ic has brought on, the less wealthy crick­et coun­tries must now stand up and be count­ed. So says the for­mer pres­i­dent of Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Dave Cameron.