LAN­CASHIRE – Lan­cashire Coun­ty Crick­et Club has recog­nised leg­endary West In­dies cap­tain Sir Clive Lloyd with a stand named in his ho­n­our at their his­toric Old Traf­ford ground in Eng­land.

KINGSTON – West In­dies white-ball skip­per Shai Hope is not sat­is­fied with the bat­ting, bowl­ing and field­ing per­for­mances of his side in the open­ing two T20Is against Aus­tralia.

Look­ing at West In­dies crick­et from Tests to One Day­ers to T20, I can re­call some in­ter­est­ing quotes on the vi­a­bil­i­ty and suc­cess in plan­ning a busi­ness strat­e­gy or op­er­a­tion. Dig deep to see if any, some, all or none ap­ply to West In­dies crick­et fol­low­ing the third white­wash in a row (3-0 to Eng­land in One Day­ers and T20s, fol­lowed by last week’s 27 all out part of an­oth­er 3-0 an­ni­hi­la­tion this time by Aus­tralia in Tests).

Af­ter rack­ing up 35 ap­pear­ances in the Eng­lish Pre­mier League and three in the UE­FA Con­fer­ence League, Chelsea FC de­fend­er Levi Col­will's 2024-2025 sea­son was ex­tend­ed by a fur­ther five match­es at the month-long FI­FA Club World Cup in the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca.

T&T Hock­ey Board Pres­i­dent Willard Har­ris has apol­o­gised to the se­nior men’s and women’s teams, who were on Wednes­day forced to with­draw from the sev­enth edi­tion of the Se­nior Pan Amer­i­can Cup at the Can­cha Ce­leste in Mon­te­v­ideo, Uruguay, due to a lack of fund­ing.

New Chap­ter Acad­e­my (NCA) War­riors’ Jer­vais “JJ” Ed­wards-Carac­ci­o­lo ex­plod­ed for 24 points, in­clud­ing five three-point­ers, to en­sure that his team proud­ly brought home the Un­der-17 ti­tle from the Caribbean In­ter­na­tion­al Shootout (CIS) af­ter a thrilling fi­nal matchup against Pros­per ETX of Texas, USA.

Eight com­peti­tors brought home 28 awards from the 2025 US Open Mar­tial Arts Cham­pi­onship, held in Or­lan­do, Flori­da.

Though the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion awaits a new pro­pos­al from for­mer sports com­men­ta­tor Sel­wyn Melville to solve the on­go­ing is­sue for the ‘So­ca War­riors’ trade­mark, Pres­i­dent Kieron Ed­wards is re­mind­ing the pub­lic not to be di­vert­ed from the fo­cus, which is the qual­i­fi­ca­tion of the coun­try for the 2026 World Cup.

T&T’s ju­nior cy­clists went medal-less on the fi­nal day of the Ju­nior Pan Amer­i­can Track Cy­cling Cham­pi­onships yes­ter­day in Li­ma, Pe­ru; how­ev­er, the team fin­ished fifth over­all.

Na­tion­al long jump record hold­er Tyra Git­tens-Spotsville is one step clos­er to achiev­ing her goal of qual­i­fy­ing for this year’s World Out­door Track and Field Cham­pi­onships set for Tokyo, Japan, from Sep­tem­ber 13-21. Git­tens-Spotsville is cur­rent­ly at 29th on the World Rank­ings, sev­en places above the 36th po­si­tion cut-off re­quired to se­cure a spot at the Cham­pi­onships.

HAL­LAN­DALE BEACH, Flori­da – Bar­ba­di­an ace train­er Saffie Joseph Jr bagged three win­ners at Gulf­stream Park in Flori­da over the week­end to ex­tend his lead at the top of the train­ers’ cham­pi­onship.

With three days to go be­fore the Se­nior Pan Amer­i­can Cup in Mon­te­v­ideo flicks off at the Can­cha Ce­leste in Mon­te­v­ideo, Uruguay, on Thurs­day, both the T&T se­nior men’s and women’s hock­ey teams are yet to have con­fir­ma­tion of their de­par­ture to the tour­na­ment.