ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Crick­et West In­dies is pleased to con­firm the CWI Ris­ing Stars Un­der-17 Cham­pi­onship bowls off to­day, 12 Au­gust, in Trinidad and To­ba­go, across mul­ti­ple venues in­clud­ing Queen's Park Oval (QPO), Bri­an Lara Crick­et Aade­my (BLCA), The Na­tion­al Crick­et Cen­tre (NCC), In­shan Ali Park, Gilbert Park and Pierre Road Ground.

When Trinidad and To­ba­go’s flag flew on the grand stage of the 2006 FI­FA World Cup, one man stood at the cen­ter of that his­toric mo­ment: Dwight Yorke. As the coun­try pre­pares to cel­e­brate 63 years of In­de­pen­dence, Yorke’s jour­ney from a small is­land in the Caribbean to lead­ing the So­ca War­riors against the world’s best coun­tries re­mains one of the na­tion’s proud­est sport­ing achieve­ments.

The Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) bowls off on Thurs­day night at Warn­er Park in St Kitts, with the home team, St Kitts and Nevis Pa­tri­ots, fac­ing the An­tigua Bar­bu­da Fal­cons.

Ce­cil Forde, pres­i­dent of the T&T Box­ing As­so­ci­a­tion (TT­BA), is mak­ing an­oth­er plea to Min­is­ter of Sports and Youth Af­fairs Phillip Watts to make ur­gent rep­re­sen­ta­tion for the T&T Box­ing Board to be ap­point­ed very soon.

T&T De­fence Force women went one bet­ter than last year when they out­classed Grena­da 3-0 to take home the ti­tle in the six-team 3W’s Tour­na­ment host­ed by the T&T De­fence Force FC at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo, on Sun­day.

T&T swim­mers Nikoli Black­man and Zuri Fer­gu­son both missed out on adding to this coun­try’s lone medal when they placed fourth in their re­spec­tive fi­nals at the sec­ond edi­tion of the Ju­nior Pan Amer­i­can Games at the Olympic Aquat­ic Cen­tre in Asun­cion, Paraguay, Mon­day night.

Yes­ter­day, Mon­day, Au­gust 11, was World Steel­pan Day. It’s a day that has sig­nif­i­cance for T&T. That sig­nif­i­cance is one of the rea­sons I choose to re­flect, in par­tic­u­lar, on “Pan on De Podi­um” and the jour­ney to get­ting the steel­pan ver­sion of the na­tion­al an­them played on the podi­um.

T&T’s Davis Cup cap­tain Dun­stan De­noon says he was pos­i­tive about the progress made by his team dur­ing the 2025 Davis Cup Amer­i­c­as Zone Group IV Tour­na­ment, which end­ed at the Na­tion­al Rac­quet Cen­tre in Or­ange Grove, Tacarigua, on Sat­ur­day.

Crick­et West In­dies’ (CWI) chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer, Chris Dehring has re­vealed that while “around 100” is­sues had been iden­ti­fied as the rea­sons be­hind the de­cline in West In­dies crick­et, in­suf­fi­cient fa­cil­i­ties, skill de­fi­cien­cies in play­ers and the qual­i­ty of do­mes­tic com­pe­ti­tions were among some of the main caus­es.

The Unit Trust Cor­po­ra­tion (UTC) has part­nered with the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) for the 2025 sea­son of the Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL T20). The part­ner­ship was ce­ment­ed with a for­mal con­tract sign­ing re­cent­ly.

With not on­ly their se­ries against Pak­istan on the line but au­to­mat­ic qual­i­fi­ca­tion for the 2027 World Cup, West In­dies all-rounder Ros­ton Chase says it’s im­por­tant that they get max­i­mum points from every One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) they play go­ing for­ward.

T&T De­fence Force Elite cap­tain Kevin Moli­no and for­mer head coach Den­sill Theobald walked away with two of the night’s most pres­ti­gious ac­co­lades — Tier I "Play­er of the Sea­son" and Tier I "Coach of the Sea­son", re­spec­tive­ly, when the T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League (TTPFL) held its awards cer­e­mo­ny at the Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (NA­PA) in Port-of-Spain on Sat­ur­day night.