THIRU­VANAN­THA­PU­RAM, In­dia — West In­dies cap­tain Kieron Pol­lard says he wants a more clin­i­cal per­for­mance from his bowlers in Sun­day’s all-im­por­tant sec­ond Twen­ty20 In­ter­na­tion­al against In­dia.

Lit­tle known Shankar Seep­aul cracked an im­pe­ri­ous 54 to up­stage a cen­tu­ry from T&T Red Force play­er Kea­gan Sim­mons and lead South Pavers to a three-wick­et vic­to­ry over East/To­ba­go Leatherbacks in the in­au­gur­al Na­mal­co TTCB Un­der-23 crick­et se­ries at the Na­tion­al Crick­et Cen­tre (NCC) in Cou­va on Thurs­day.

T&T's Stephon Cox, Trevor Bar­rett and Stephanie Lazar were the on­ly win­ners for T&T on the open­ing day of the Caribbean Box­ing Cham­pi­onship at the Na­tion­al Cy­cling Cen­tre (NCC) at Bal­main Cou­va on Thurs­day.

Queen's Park Crick­et Club (QPCC) Ta­ble Ten­nis team duo, Brit­tany Joseph and Guyana's She­mar Brit­ton suc­cess­ful­ly de­fend­ed their ti­tles when the three-day 2019 edi­tion of the T&T Ta­ble Ten­nis As­so­ci­a­tion (TTT&TA) Re­li­a­bil­i­ty Main­te­nance Ser­vices Lim­it­ed Su­per Sin­gles Tour­na­ment con­clud­ed at the Na­tion­al Rac­quet Cen­tre, Or­ange Grove Road, Tacarigua on Wednes­day.

T&T's cy­cling team of Njisane Phillip, Keron Bram­ble and Nicholas Paul were fourth in the Team Sprint at the UCI Cy­cling World Cup in New Zealand on Fri­day night.

It will be a tale of two teams go­ing af­ter their first-ever First Cit­i­zens Cup ti­tle at the Diego Mar­tin Sport­ing Com­plex in Bagatelle, Diego Mar­tin from 7 Fri­day.

Kevon Jes­sop and Chris­ton Fer­i­tas were both on tar­get as Cul­tur­al Roots Unit­ed claimed its sec­ond North­ern Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion Pre­mier Di­vi­sion ti­tle with a 2-0 vic­to­ry over its clos­est ri­vals Trend­set­ter Hawks in front of its home fans at Dibe Recre­ation Ground, Long Cir­cu­lar, St James on Wednes­day night.

Shevy Lon­don pro­vid­ed the spark Strak­er Nets need­ed to even the semi­fi­nal se­ries against De­fence Force in the JCW Bas­ket­ball League, win­ning game two 79-77 on Wednes­day night at the South­ern Re­gion­al In­door Sports Are­na in Pleas­antville, San Fer­nan­do.

De­fend­ing cham­pi­on team Na­pari­ma Col­lege will be go­ing all out to de­fend its ti­tle and achieve a hat-trick of wins at the 14th An­nu­al First Cit­i­zens Na­tion­al Sec­ondary Schools Chess Cham­pi­onship which will take place on Sun­day at Aranguez North Sec­ondary School.

The John O'Brien trained Apoc­a­lypse will have his fi­nal race be­fore he takes on the top-class hors­es in the Gold Cup on Box­ing day (De­cem­ber 26), on Sat­ur­day when he goes to post for the fea­ture Hand­i­cap Event over 1,750 me­tres on the main track at San­ta Rosa Park in Ari­ma.

Gen­e­sis Joseph re­peat­ed as the over­all cham­pi­on of the T&T Sec­ondary Schools’ Track and Field As­so­ci­a­tion (TTSST­FA) An­nu­al 5k Clas­sic road race in Cou­va on Sun­day.

Mas­ter bat­ter De­an­dra Dot­tin was at her best on Wednes­day night as she led Nov­el Sports South­ern Ti­tans to a Su­per Over win over the Tri­dent Phoenix in their Courts Women's T20 Grand Slam clash at the UWI SPEC in St Au­gus­tine.