The “So­ca War­riors” nick­name has been a pow­er­ful sym­bol of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s foot­ball pride for some time now. How­ev­er, the dis­tin­guished ti­tle is now at the cen­tre of con­tro­ver­sy. The de­bate has shift­ed from the foot­ball field to the of­fices of David Nakhid, the Par­lia­men­tary Sec­re­tary in the Min­istry of Sport and Youth Af­fairs, who is will­ing to work to re­solve the dis­pute over the “So­ca War­riors” nick­name for the Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­al foot­ball team. The T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) and for­mer sports broad­cast­er Sel­wyn Melville, who holds the trade­mark rights to the name, have been un­able to reach an agree­ment. Nakhid, a for­mer na­tion­al play­er of the T&T se­nior men’s team, has called a meet­ing to dis­cuss the mat­ter and has em­pha­sised the im­por­tance of the nick­name to the na­tion­al iden­ti­ty and brand.

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.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – West In­dies Women’s cap­tain Hay­ley Matthews has been ap­point­ed as a Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) am­bas­sador.

The 37-year-old Rus­sell, who has rep­re­sent­ed the West In­dies in more than 140 in­ter­na­tion­al match­es over a 15-year ca­reer and was part of the 2012 and 2016 teams that won the T20 World Cup, de­scribed it as an ho­n­our to have rep­re­sent­ed the re­gion­al team.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – West In­dies’ pow­er­ful bat­ting all-rounder An­dre Rus­sell is re­port­ed­ly on the verge of re­tir­ing from in­ter­na­tion­al crick­et.

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.

BAS­SETERRE – Prime Min­is­ter of St Kitts & Nevis, Ter­rance Drew be­lieves the Kit­tit­ian and Nevisian di­as­po­ra has great po­ten­tial, fol­low­ing a vis­it to the is­land by Chelsea foot­ball su­per­star Cole Palmer.

ADE­LAIDE, Aus­tralia– For­mer West In­dies cap­tain Carl Hoop­er be­lieves head coach Daren Sam­my needs to be an­swer­able for the re­gion­al side’s em­bar­rass­ing per­for­mance against Aus­tralia in the just con­clud­ed day/night third Test.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – West In­dies Test cap­tain Ros­ton Chase has char­ac­terised the West In­dies’ hu­mil­i­at­ing bat­ting per­for­mance, which saw them bun­dled out for just 27 in the sec­ond in­nings in the third and fi­nal Test match against Aus­tralia on Mon­day as “heart­break­ing”.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua — Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) pres­i­dent Dr Kishore Shal­low is ful­ly sup­port­ing West In­dies Head Coach Daren Sam­my amid the calls for his re­moval by for­mer play­ers af­ter the Test se­ries against Aus­tralia end­ed in em­bar­rass­ing fash­ion for the home side on Mon­day, with them be­ing bun­dled out for 27 runs in the sec­ond in­nings at Sabi­na Park, los­ing by a mam­moth 176 runs and record­ing the sec­ond-low­est score in the his­to­ry of Test crick­et.

All-rounder An­dre Rus­sell will make his fi­nal in­ter­na­tion­al ap­pear­ance for the West In­dies on home soil when the team faces Aus­tralia in a T20 se­ries at Sabi­na Park on Ju­ly 20 and 22.

Red Force mid­dle-or­der bats­man Jyd Goolie is one of three changes to the West In­dies team to face Aus­tralia in the first T20 In­ter­na­tion­al, which be­gins on Sun­day in Ja­maica.