Left-hand­ed bats­man Kea­gan Sim­mons on Thurs­day fol­lowed the strong Sim­mons tra­di­tion in crick­et by hit­ting 89 on de­but for the T&T Red Force against Ja­maica Scor­pi­ons on the open­ing day of the 2020 Crick­et West In­dies Pro­fes­sion­al Crick­et League at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba.

As the new year is up­on us, so is the Caribbean crick­et sea­son with the vis­it­ing Irish here to test our im­prove­ment in the white ball game. As I pre­dict­ed, the West in­dies eas­i­ly swept them aside in the first ODI and un­less com­pla­cen­cy steps in, I ex­pect skip­per Kieron Pol­lard and his team to make a clean sweep of their op­po­si­tion.

Mul­ti­tal­ent­ed Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege (San Fer­nan­do) foot­baller Jaiye Shep­pard was vot­ed the 2019 Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League's (SS­FL) Play­er of the Year yes­ter­day at the Prize­giv­ing Cer­e­mo­ny at the Cou­va/Point Lisas Cham­ber of Com­merce.

The hero of the open­ing day of the 2020 Rac­ing Sea­son, Harold Chadee will at­tempt to con­tin­ue his win­ning ways on Sat­ur­day, when the Ari­ma Race Club (ARC) host a sev­en-race card pro­gramme at San­ta Rosa Park in Ari­ma, from 1:30 pm.

Team cap­tain, Jer­wyn "Bal­ly" Balt­haz­ar net­ted the lone goal as De­fence Force eked out a 1-0 win against a stub­born AC Port-of-Spain to move to the top of the 11-club T&T Pro League stand­ings at the Diego Mar­tin Sport­ing Com­plex, Bagatelle, Diego Mar­tin on Tues­day night.

T&T Red Force will open their Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Pro­fes­sion­al Crick­et League cam­paign on Thursday against the Ja­maica Scor­pi­ons at the Bri­an Lara Acad­e­my Sta­di­um in Tarou­ba from 10 am.

Na­tion­al cy­cling coach and tech­ni­cal di­rec­tor of the T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion Erin Hartwell has sought to clear the air on the in­abil­i­ty of the lo­cal sprint team to qual­i­fy for this year’s Olympic Games in Tokyo Japan, by say­ing ‘this is not true.’

BRIDGETOWN—Fresh from his match-win­ning Man-of-the-Match per­for­mance, West In­dies pac­er Alzarri Joseph says he is not putting any lim­its on his fledg­ling ca­reer as he seeks to make full use of his po­ten­tial head­ing in­to Thursday’s sec­ond match against Ire­land here at the Kens­ing­ton Oval.

For­mer T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion tech­ni­cal di­rec­tor An­ton Corneal has lament­ed on the low turn out of women par­tic­i­pants at the T&T Women’s League Foot­ball (TTWoLF) host­ed in­au­gur­al 'C' Li­cense Coach­ing Course which be­gan on Mon­day at Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Bal­main, Cou­va.

Red hot Queen's Park Crick­et Club men will be tar­get­ing a third straight ti­tle and suc­cess­ful de­fence of yet an­oth­er crown when they com­pete in the 17th an­nu­al In­vi­ta­tion­al In­door Hock­ey tour­na­ment to be host­ed by Ven­tures Hock­ey Club at UWI SPEC, St Au­gus­tine, from Thurs­day to Sun­day.

DHA­KA —Left-han­der Chris Gayle sparkled briefly in his first ap­pear­ance of the sea­son but it was Lendl Sim­mons’ sec­ond half-cen­tu­ry in three in­nings and third of the cam­paign which fired Chat­togram Chal­lengers to their sec­ond win on the trot, a con­vinc­ing sev­en-wick­et vic­to­ry over Ra­jshahi Roy­als.

West In­dies bats­man Dar­ren Bra­vo has been ap­point­ed cap­tain of the T&T Red Force team for the first match of the 2020 Crick­et West In­dies Four-Day Tour­na­ment start­ing to­mor­row at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba.