KIM­BER­LEY, South Africa – Boost­ed by vic­to­ries in their two warm-up match­es dur­ing the week, 2016 cham­pi­ons West In­dies will look to make a win­ning start to their ICC Un­der-19 World Cup cam­paign when they take on 2018 run­ners-up Aus­tralia in their open­ing match on Sat­ur­day.

De­spite a dogged dis­play, this coun­try's young ten­nis stars fin­ished sixth in the North, Cen­tral Amer­i­can and the Caribbean Pre Qual­i­fy­ing Ten­nis Tour­na­ment in the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, go­ing down in three sets to Guatemala 0-3 in a fifth/sixth-place play-off on Fri­day.

The T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) has an­nounced the ap­point­ment of a fur­ther 26 per­sons in tech­ni­cal po­si­tions for all the coun­try's na­tion­al teams rang­ing from Un­der-15s to se­niors in a re­lease on Thurs­day fol­low­ing a meet­ing of the Board of Di­rec­tors at the FA’s head­quar­ters on Wednes­day in Bal­main, Cou­va.

Pres­i­dent of the T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB), Az­im Bas­sarath said that Sco­tia­bank will be key in the re­vival of West In­dies crick­et be­cause of the com­pa­ny's in­vest­ment in the youths crick­et in the re­gion.

With the top two teams in the 2019/2020 T&T Pro League, De­fence Force and Po­lice FC fac­ing off on Sun­day, joint third-placed clubs, Mor­vant Cale­do­nia Unit­ed and Ter­minix La Hor­quet­ta Rangers will each have a chance to climb to with­in a point when match­es re­sume on Fri­day night.

T&T Red Force con­tin­ued its good start to the 2020 Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Four-day cham­pi­onship when the team bowled out the Lee­wards Hur­ri­canes for 186 and re­spond­ed with 74/1 at the end of the first day at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do on Thurs­day.

Sto­ries of Suc­cess (SOS) Bas­ket­ball Acad­e­my se­cured its third con­sec­u­tive win, a 102-82 blow-out vic­to­ry over the T&T Prison Ser­vice in round four of the Na­tion­al Bas­ket­ball Fed­er­a­tion of T&T (NBFTT) Na­tion­al In­vi­ta­tion­al Cham­pi­onships (NIC) on Sat­ur­day at the Mal­oney In­door Sports Are­na, Mal­oney.

T&T Red Force, de­spite not win­ning its open­ing match of the West In­dies Four-day Cham­pi­onship, did play well against Ja­maica Scor­pi­ons and now will bat­tle the Lee­ward Is­lands Hur­ri­canes in its sec­ond-round match at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do on Thurs­day, hop­ing to go one bet­ter.

Po­lice X was tak­en to the lim­it by Jabloteh but the for­mer did just enough to come away with a 26-24 vic­to­ry when ac­tion in the Al­ter­na­tive Di­vi­sion con­tin­ued in the Courts All Sec­tors Net­ball League on Tues­day.

PRE­TO­RIA, South Africa – Kevlon An­der­son’s stun­ning un­beat­en hun­dred hand­ed West In­dies Un­der-19s pre­cious mo­men­tum ahead of their ICC Un­der-19 World Cup open­er against Aus­tralia on Sat­ur­day, as they crushed min­nows Scot­land by 126 runs in their fi­nal of­fi­cial warm-up on Wednes­day.

De­fence Force dropped its first points of the sea­son in the 2019/2020 T&T Pro League cam­paign af­ter they need­ed an equalis­er from Shaquille Bertrand to sal­vage a 1-1 draw with strug­gling San Juan Jabloteh on Tues­day night.

Ac­tion in­volv­ing the 11-club T&T Pro League foot­ball sea­son, which is well in­to its sixth round of com­pe­ti­tion, will soon be avail­able to lo­cal foot­ball fans and sports lovers alike on a na­tion­al tele­vi­sion net­work.