ST JOHN’S – The trio of Dilum Sudeera, Du­laj Samu­ditha and Ashi­an Daniel spun a web around West In­dies Acad­e­my’s bat­ters to pro­pel Sri Lan­ka Emerg­ing Play­ers to a 75-run win in­side three days in the open­ing four-day match in An­tigua on Mon­day.

Zenith Ath­let­ic Club's Ke­nai Reid and old­er sis­ter Dai­ja were crowned cham­pi­ons at the Na­tion­al Com­bined Events Cham­pio­ships at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain from June 7-8.

T&T So­ca War­riors booked a spot in the third and fi­nal round of the 2026 FI­FA World Cup Con­ca­caf qual­i­fi­ca­tion for the first time since 2017, de­spite a 2-1 loss away to Cos­ta Ri­ca in their fi­nal match of the sec­ond round Con­ca­caf World Cup Group B qual­i­fi­er at the Es­ta­dio Na­cional in San Jose, Cos­ta Ri­ca, on Tues­day night.

In­su­lar­i­ty has of­ten been hid­den be­hind words, which if con­tex­tu­alised, will de­ceive on­ly the fool­hardy.

Two-time de­fend­ing cham­pi­on De­fence Force I and its T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League Tier II team­mates will be hop­ing to set up a fi­nals meet­ing when they go in­to First Cit­i­zens Cup semi­fi­nal match­es at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Bal­main, Cou­va Wednes­day from 6 pm.

Team cap­tain Christo­pher Du­ri­ty scored a pair of goals to lead De­fence Force Past Play­ers to a 4-0 de­feat of Sun­day Krew in an all-T&T club Over-40 Di­vi­sion fi­nal when the St Lu­cia In­ter­na­tion­al Mas­ters Foot­ball Tour­na­ment host­ed by Vet­er­ans In Sport In­cor­po­rat­ed end­ed at the Gros Islet Mi­ni Sta­di­um on Mon­day.

Na­tion­al swim­mer Nikoli Black­man won the men’s 50m freestyle B-fi­nal on the third night of the 2025 Bell Cana­di­an Swim­ming Tri­als at the Saanich Com­mon­wealth Place in British Co­lum­bia, Cana­da, on Mon­day.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – West In­dies white-ball cap­tain Shai Hope and ODI bat­ting sen­sa­tion Kea­cy Car­ty are set to make their re­turn to Test crick­et in the high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed se­ries against Aus­tralia at home lat­er this month.

SOUTHAMP­TON – West In­dies pro­duced an­oth­er in­ept per­for­mance and were du­ly thrashed by Eng­land by 37 runs in the third and fi­nal T20I in Eng­land on Tues­day.

GROS ISLET – South Africa ‘A’ low­er or­der bats­men Ru­an de Swardt and Schalk En­gel­brecht both hit fight­ing half cen­turies to main­tain the up­per hand against West In­dies ‘A’ at the end of the sec­ond day of their un­of­fi­cial ‘Test’ in St Lu­cia on Mon­day (June 9).

The One Love con­cert, head­lined by the leg­endary Ja­maican reg­gae artiste Miguel “Siz­zla Kalon­ji” Collins took place at Sound Forge, Port-of- Spain, on Sat­ur­day.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – In a sur­prise and shock­ing move that has left the crick­et­ing world in dis­be­lief, West In­dies star T20 bats­man Nicholas Pooran on Mon­day an­nounced his re­tire­ment from in­ter­na­tion­al crick­et at the ten­der age of 29.