GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana – De­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Rang­pur Rid­ers were de­nied a fourth con­sec­u­tive vic­to­ry in the Exxon­Mo­bil Guyana Glob­al Su­per League (GSL) af­ter heavy rain forced the aban­don­ment of their fi­nal group-stage match against the Cen­tral Stags here at Prov­i­dence Sta­di­um on Thurs­day.

ST. JOHN’S, An­tigua – It is no se­cret that West In­dies fast-bowl­ing great Sir Andy Roberts does not mince words when it comes to crit­i­cis­ing play­ers, coach­es and even ad­min­is­tra­tors with re­gards to West In­dies crick­et.

T&T's top-ranked golfer Chris Richards Jr will be aim­ing for a third straight T&T Golf As­so­ci­a­tion (TTGA) To­ba­go Golf Open ti­tle when the tour­na­ment tees off at the Plan­ta­tions Golf Course, Mag­dale­na Beach and Re­sort in Low­lands, To­ba­go Fri­day.

To­bag­on­ian Make­da Bain won all three of her fi­nals con­test­ed when the Sagi­cor Ju­nior Ten­nis Tour­na­ment end­ed at the Na­tion­al Rac­quet Cen­tre in Tacarigua Thursday.

Min­is­ter of Sports & Youth Af­fairs Phillip Watts said he ful­ly sup­ports the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion’s (TTFA) plans to re­brand the na­tion­al men’s foot­ball team fol­low­ing the con­tro­ver­sy over roy­al­ties for the use of the “So­ca War­riors” nick­name.

T&T Un­der-19 women crick­eters won their sec­ond match of the West In­dies U-19 Ris­ing Stars tour­na­ment at the Na­tion­al Crick­et Cen­tre (NCC) in Bal­main, Cou­va yes­ter­day and booked their places to play for third place against Ja­maica Sat­ur­day.

GEORGE­TOWN – The Guyana Ama­zon War­riors se­cured their spot in the Exxon­Mo­bil Guyana Glob­al Su­per League (GSL) fi­nal with a com­mand­ing four-wick­et vic­to­ry over the Ho­bart Hur­ri­canes XI, tri­umph­ing with 21 balls to spare here at The Guyana Na­tion­al Sta­di­um Wednes­day night.

KINGSTON – The re­de­vel­op­ment of Ja­maica’s Na­tion­al Sta­di­um is set to be a game-chang­er for the na­tion’s ath­letes while re­in­forc­ing the strong part­ner­ship be­tween Ja­maica and the Unit­ed King­dom, ac­cord­ing to Olivia Grange, the Min­is­ter of Cul­ture, Gen­der, En­ter­tain­ment and Sport.

BAS­SETERRE, St. Kitts – USA-1 and Bar­ba­dos seem des­tined to meet in the fi­nals of the Ris­ing Stars Men’s Un­der-19 50-over Cham­pi­onships, as they both record­ed vic­to­ries on the penul­ti­mate pre­lim­i­nary day of match­es on Fri­day.

The T&T trio of Je­lani Nedd, Jo­van Ram­roop and Ju­dah Nev­er­son were still in con­tention for the gold medal in the Men's Team Sprint af­ter two rounds of com­pe­ti­tion at the Pan Amer­i­can Youth Track Cham­pi­onship at Lega­do’s mod­ern Velo­drome or­gan­ised by the Pe­ru­vian Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion on Fri­day.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) on Wednes­day an­nounced the 16-mem­ber squad for the up­com­ing five-match T20 In­ter­na­tion­al (T20I) Se­ries against Aus­tralia, to be played from Ju­ly 20–28 at Sabi­na Park in Ja­maica and Warn­er Park in St. Kitts.

27. Yes, 27 all out in a Test match. This isn't a re­al score. I be­lieve this is Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) con­duct­ing a so­cial ex­per­i­ment to gauge the ex­tent of how much pain an en­tire re­gion can en­dure.