Sports

A new sprint champion will be crowned at this weekend’s National Gas Company (NGC)/ Sagicor/National Association of Athletics Administrations (NAAA) Open Track & Field Championships, as defending champion Richard Thompson will not face the starter in the men’s 100 metres event.

Led by inform striker and off-season signing Marcus Joseph, former T&T Pro League champions, W Connection, goes after its third straight win in the new 2017 season when it faces Club Sando in the second match of a double-header at the Ato Boldon Stadium, Couva, tonight from 8 pm.

Frankel on the board with Atty

Caravaggio is officially the better of two Aidan O’Brien declarations for a fascinating £400000 Commonwealth Cup over six furlongs of good to firm Royal Ascot today, based on BHA ratings, and my time-handicap!

OAKHAM, England

Opting to bat first at Lime Kilns Ground yesterday, West Indies stunningly collapsed to 63 all out off 23.5 overs, with opener Hayley Matthews top-scoring with 19 to be one of just three batsmen in double figures.

Mexican players dominated play at the JITIC Under-18 Regional Tennis Championship at the National Racquet Centre in Tacarigua yesterday, as three out of the six players that contested the Boy’s Under-18 quarterfinal play-offs booked places in today’s semifinal.

Chad Rowley helped himself to nine goals as T&T Under-18 boys waterpolo team swamped neighbours Barbados in their opening match of their four-team competition when the highly anticipated 2017 Central American and Caribbean Amateur Swimming Confederation (CCCAN) Swimming Championships...

LONDON

The Caribbean side currently look likely to miss out on automatic qualification for the 2019 tournament in England, with only the hosts and the remaining top seven nations in the ICC rankings by September 30 earning direct berths.

Acknowledging that it had taken too long for a national energy policy to be put in place, Anita Hankey, senior planning officer, Ministry of Energy, said the policy will be coming soon. Hankey added that stakeholders were consulted and the ministry was getting ready to launch the policy.