Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) has ap­proved a re­quest from the T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB) for the in­au­gur­al Na­mal­co Un­der-23 crick­et se­ries which will bowl off to­mor­row at two venues in Trinidad.

Off-spin­ner Kevin Sin­clair said West In­dies Emerg­ing Play­ers had a feel­ing they would have won the Su­per50 Cup af­ter a stroke of for­tune saw them squeeze in­to the se­mi-fi­nals.

Led by a dou­ble from Alex­cia Ali, Pleas­antville Sec­ondary School earned the right to de­fend its Co­ca Co­la Na­tion­al Girls In­ter­col ti­tle af­ter crush­ing Cara­pichaima East, 8-1 in the semi­fi­nals on Sun­day at the Man­nie Ramjohn Sta­di­um in Mara­bel­la.

Nov­el Sports Ltd has joined Tri­dent Sports Ltd (Phoenix), LCB Con­trac­tors (Sharks) and UDE­COTT (Star­blaz­ers), as team own­ers for the 2019 edi­tion of the Courts T20 Grand Slam which bowls off on Tues­day. Nov­el Sports will put their names in front of the South fran­chise team Ti­tans, mak­ing them the Nov­el Sports South­ern Ti­tans.

East Mu­cu­rapo earned the right to com­pete for Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) Fru­ta Form One Un­der-13 Na­tion­al knock­out ti­tle on Tues­day against south­ern­ers St Bene­dict's Col­lege at St Mary's Col­lege Ground, St Clair from 3:30 pm.

Gen­der equal­i­ty will be ad­dressed by Crick­et West In­dies dur­ing its tenure ac­cord­ing to the vice-pres­i­dent Dr Kishore Shal­low, who at­tend­ed the Sco­tia­bank Kid­dies crick­et prize-giv­ing cer­e­mo­ny that was held at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba on Thurs­day.

The West In­dies Emerg­ing Play­ers (WIEP) won the 2019 Colo­nial Med­ical In­sur­ance Su­per50 crick­et ti­tle on Sun­day night with a re­sound­ing vic­to­ry over the Lee­wards Hur­ri­canes at the Queen's Park Oval in Port-of-Spain.

Nicholas Paul placed ninth over­all in the Men's Sprint at the In­ter­na­tion­al Cy­cling Union (UCI) Track World Cup in Hong Kong on Sun­day.

The Unit­ed Na­tions (UN) Sus­tain­able De­vel­op­ment Goal (SDG) 5 fo­cus­es on achiev­ing gen­der equal­i­ty and em­pow­er­ment for all women and girls. Ac­cord­ing to the goal, “sport can be a pow­er­ful plat­form for ad­vo­ca­cy and aware­ness-rais­ing for gen­der equal­i­ty. It can con­tribute to abol­ish­ing all forms of dis­crim­i­na­tion against women and girls; hu­man rights-based rules of a sport can help to re­place cul­tur­al­ly dis­crim­i­na­tive norms that ex­clude women and girls from sports.”

The Cougars Track and Field Club came out in their num­bers on Sat­ur­day when the club held their first Thanks­giv­ing Ser­vice at the St Agnes An­gli­can Church in St James.

Left-hand­ed T&T bats­man Leonar­do Julien was in great form strik­ing 83 for the West In­dies Emerg­ing Play­ers against the Lee­wards Hur­ri­canes in the fi­nal of the Colo­nial Med­ical In­sur­ance Su­per50 Cup at the Queen's Park Oval in Port-of-Spain on Sun­day.

For­mer T&T cap­tain and strik­er Ken­wyne Jones has giv­en his bless­ings and vote of con­fi­dence to new­ly-elect­ed T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) pres­i­dent William Wal­lace.