DUBAI, UAE – The Desert Vipers’ quar­tet of West In­di­an tal­ent could prove to be the fran­chise’s se­cret weapon in next month’s Exxon­Mo­bil Guyana Glob­al Su­per League (GSL), ac­cord­ing to Bar­ba­di­an all-rounder Kyle May­ers.

Ryan Ram­lakhan con­tributed with both bat and ball as Al­le­giance se­cured a 17 runs win over de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Drifters in the ma­jor semi­fi­nal of the Over-45 Ty­ro Sports Club Ten Overs Per Side Wind­ball Crick­et League spon­sored by Mon­te­co Cre­ations Lim­it­ed on Sat­ur­day.

T&T’s se­nior foot­ballers suc­cumbed to a 3-0 de­feat to Rus­sia in their sec­ond in­ter­na­tion­al friend­ly match at the Kalin­ingrad Are­na in Rus­sia on Tuesday. And had it not been for the hero­ics of goal­keep­er Den­zil Smith be­tween the posts, the mar­gin of de­feat would have been even wider.

CARDIFF – West In­dies vice-cap­tain Chinelle Hen­ry was stretchered off the field dur­ing Wednes­day’s T20 World Cup warm-up match against Aus­tralia at Sophia Gar­dens in Wales, leav­ing the Caribbean side’s tour­na­ment prepa­ra­tions in tur­moil.

HAM­BAN­TO­TA – Half-cen­turies from cap­tain Ri­val­do Clarke, Maven­dra Dindyal and Shaqkere Par­ris have giv­en the West In­dies Acad­e­my a slight ad­van­tage over Sri Lan­ka’s Emerg­ing Play­ers at the halfway mark of the first un­of­fi­cial ‘Test’ in Sri Lan­ka on Tues­day.

CARDIFF – West In­dies vice-cap­tain Chinelle Hen­ry was stretchered off the field dur­ing a warm-up match against Aus­tralia at Sophia Gar­dens in Wales on Wednes­day, cast­ing a dark cloud over the team’s prepa­ra­tions for the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup.

World Cup fever hits the Caribbean. Go Cu­ra­cao go! Go Haiti go! Against all odds. Be­yond pos­si­ble. Em­brace and en­joy the op­por­tu­ni­ty. The Caribbean As­so­ci­a­tion of Na­tion­al Olympic Com­mit­tees (CANOC) stands in sol­i­dar­i­ty with Cu­ra­cao and Haiti.

Trinidad and To­ba­go darts rep­re­sen­ta­tives Joshua Bal­four and James Walk­lin de­part­ed for Frank­furt, Ger­many, where they are set to make his­to­ry as the first pair to rep­re­sent the twin-is­land re­pub­lic at the 2026 BetVic­tor World Cup of Darts.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Young­sters Jew­el An­drew and Ac­k­eem Au­guste, along with all-rounder Shamar Springer have been draft­ed in­to the West In­dies squad for the up­com­ing T20I se­ries against Sri Lan­ka, which bowls off on Thurs­day.

KINGSTON – With on­ly one game of their One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) se­ries against Sri Lan­ka be­ing played, West In­dies white-ball cap­tain Shai Hope has stressed the im­por­tance of the up­com­ing five-match se­ries against New Zealand to­wards the re­gion­al team au­to­mat­i­cal­ly qual­i­fy­ing for the 2027 ICC World Cup.

T&T’s sprint star Michelle-Lee Ahye of Mem­phis Pi­o­neers and Rev­ell Web­ster of Con­corde Ath­let­ics Club sped to vic­to­ry in the re­spec­tive women’s and men’s Open 100-me­tre events at the Abi­lene Wild­cats De­on Lendore Clas­sic, held at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain, on Sat­ur­day.

The gen­er­al con­sen­sus in any sport is, ‘With­out the in­jec­tion of youth, the sport will even­tu­al­ly fade away’. Well, the Bil­liards (Pool) com­mu­ni­ty got a snap­shot in­to the fu­ture of their sport last Wednes­day night at Mr Bil­liards Sig­na­ture Pool Hall in Champs Fleurs, where sev­er­al en­ti­ties came to­geth­er to show­case the game amongst the youth.