If I’d asked you a week ago, “Who is Pieter Willem Adri­aan Mul­der?” most of you would have prob­a­bly blinked, shrugged, and mut­tered some­thing about a po­ten­tial new brand of Dutch cheese. The few avid crick­et fans might have vague­ly re­called a crick­eter. But oh, how times have changed!

The Trinidad and To­ba­go un­der-19 crick­eters could not es­cape de­feat to the USA-1 team like they did against the USA-2 six days ago in the Crick­et West In­dies Ris­ing Stars Men’s Un­der-19 50-over Cham­pi­onships at St Mary’s Park, St Kitts, Wednes­day.

T&T un­der-21 men’s hock­ey coach Glen ‘Fi­do’ Fran­cis says he is pleased so far with the prepa­ra­tion of his charges for the Ju­nior Pan Amer­i­can Cham­pi­onship in Asun­cion, Paraguay, from Au­gust 9 to 23.

The im­pact of the pend­ing clo­sure of the Caribbean’s sports ca­ble net­work, Sports­Max, is set to see key changes in the re­gion’s ecosys­tem for sports.

The T&T boys team of Dar­i­on Sparks and Josie Ce­de­no end­ed in the tenth spot, while the girls duo of Sarah Mo­hammed and Jen­nisa Mor­ri­son were 14th when the NORCE­CA Un­der-18 Beach Vol­ley­ball Cham­pi­onships end­ed at Juan Do­lio Beach in the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic Wednesday (Ju­ly 9).

Aus­tralia has of­fi­cial­ly re­tained the Sir Frank Wor­rell tro­phy, hav­ing won the sec­ond test by a tidy 133 runs and there­by tak­ing an unas­sail­able 2-0 lead in the three-test se­ries. And frankly, every­thing’s gone ac­cord­ing to script.

The T&T se­nior na­tion­al foot­ball team will head in­to the fi­nal round of the World Cup qual­i­fiers or pos­si­bly the FI­FA World Cup next year with a new name.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – As part of ef­forts to grow the sport of crick­et across North, Cen­tral, and South Amer­ic, Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) will spear­head the es­tab­lish­ment of La Fed­eración de Crí­quet de las Améri­c­as (FE­CA).

Host T&T will be keen for a win­ning start in both men and women com­pe­ti­tions when the T&T Vol­ley­ball Fed­er­a­tion (TTVF) plays host to the Caribbean Zon­al Vol­ley­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (CA­ZO­VA) Un­der-23 Cham­pi­onship at the Mal­oney In­door Sport­ing Fa­cil­i­ty from Thurs­day (Ju­ly 10) un­til Sun­day (Ju­ly 13).

LON­DON – Bar­ba­di­an Jofra Archer will play his first Test in four and a half years af­ter be­ing named in Eng­land’s start­ing XI for the third Test against In­dia be­gin­ning at Lord’s in Eng­land on Thurs­day.

MONA­CO – T&T’s sprint star Jereem ‘the Drem’ Richards will face a stern test in the men’s 200 me­tres at the Mona­co Di­a­mond League on Fri­day, squar­ing off against Amer­i­can sprint sen­sa­tion Noah Lyles in his first half-lap race of the 2025 sea­son.

France-based Chloe Fras­er and Ma­lik Gopaul, both of Cru­saders were crowned cham­pi­ons of their re­spec­tive Un­der-19 Girls and Boys Sin­gles Di­vi­sion when the T&T Ta­ble Ten­nis As­so­ci­a­tion Arawak-spon­sored Ju­nior Sil­ver Bowl Ta­ble Ten­nis Tour­na­ment end­ed on Sun­day.