Vet­er­an West In­dies open­er Chris Gayle will be ready and wait­ing for the threat that is ex­pect­ed to come his way from Eng­land’s Bar­ba­dos-born pac­er Jofra Archer when the teams meet in their fourth ICC World Cup match on Fri­day at Southamp­ton, Eng­land.

Sunil Nar­ine's bril­liance with both bat and ball couldn't stop the Guyana Jaguars from win­ning the in­au­gur­al UDE­COTT/TTCB T10 In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Tour­na­ment at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my (BLCA) in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do on Sun­day evening.

The Olympic Part­ners (TOP) pro­gramme is the high­est lev­el of Olympic spon­sor­ship, grant­i­ng cat­e­go­ry ex­clu­sive mar­ket­ing rights to the Sum­mer, Win­ter and Youth Olympic Games to a group of glob­al part­ners. The pro­gramme was cre­at­ed by the In­ter­na­tion­al Olympic Com­mit­tee (IOC) in 1985.

Lind­say Gillette, chair­man of the com­mis­sion formed to guide T&T foot­ball in­to the new area of the UE­FA/FI­FA-pro­posed com­pe­ti­tion, is now be­ing tout­ed as the man who will get the nod to man­age the af­fairs of the sport lo­cal­ly when the TTFA elec­tion of of­fi­cers takes place in No­vem­ber this year.

SOUTHAMP­TON, Eng­land (AP) — The size and pace of the fast bowlers from the Caribbean has crick­et watch­ers ex­cit­ed about a po­ten­tial West In­dies re­nais­sance at the World Cup.

The ICC World Cup clash be­tween the West In­dies and South Africa came to wa­tery end at the Ageas Bowl in Southamp­ton Mon­day, af­ter on­ly 7.3 overs of play were pos­si­ble be­fore um­pired were forced to aban­don the match.

For­mer Pak­istani fast bowler Sar­fraz Nawaz has giv­en the West In­dies fast bowlers the thumb's up for their per­for­mance to date in the 2019 ICC World Cup in Eng­land.

When a jour­nal­ist goes to the Queen's Park Oval in Trinidad and To­ba­go to cov­er crick­et match­es they pass by the Hilton Trinidad ho­tel around the Queen's Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain and en­ter via the St Clair or north­ern end to reach Oval's the press fa­cil­i­ties.

Ja­maal Alexan­der put on a record-break­ing per­for­mance to win the gold medal in the Boys' Un­der-20 ham­mer throw event on an over­cast sec­ond day of the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC)/Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ics Ad­min­is­tra­tions of T&T (NAAATT) Ju­nior Cham­pi­onships at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo on Sun­day.

T&T's se­nior men’s team will play their fi­nal warm-up be­fore the start of the 2019 CON­CA­CAF Gold Cup cam­paign with a closed-door friend­ly against Cana­da at the Ti­tan Sta­di­um in Cal State Fuller­ton, USA at 3 pm (6 pm TT time) on Mon­day.

T&T’s Njisane Phillip cap­tured a bronze medal in the Elite Men’s Keirin ti­tle when the 2019 UCI Fes­ti­val of Speed came off in Breinigsville, Penn­syl­va­nia, the USA on Fri­day and Sat­ur­day night.

T&T’s Machel Ce­de­nio had a good fin­ish to place sec­ond in the men's 400 me­tres at the Rac­ers Grand Prix on Sat­ur­day night at the Na­tion­al Sta­di­um in Kingston, Ja­maica.