CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand – A de­fi­ant 52-run part­ner­ship be­tween Michael Bracewell and Nathan Smith res­cued New Zealand from a mid-in­nings col­lapse, steer­ing the hosts to 231 for 9 on a rain-rav­aged and dra­mat­ic first day of the first Test against the West In­dies in New Zealand on Tues­day (De­cem­ber 2).

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand – West In­dies Test cap­tain, Ros­ton Chase is call­ing for his troops to car­ry their per­for­mances from the re­cent­ly con­clud­ed T20I se­ries against New Zealand in­to their up­com­ing three-match Test se­ries.

T&T con­clud­ed its FI­BA 3x3 Amer­iCup cam­paign in León, Mex­i­co, fin­ish­ing in 10th place over­all.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – In a fit­ting trib­ute to a colos­sal fig­ure in the world of crick­et, leg­endary West In­dies fast bowler Joel Gar­ner was to­day con­ferred with the Or­der of Free­dom of Bar­ba­dos, the na­tion’s high­est award, as part of the 2025 In­de­pen­dence and Re­pub­lic cel­e­bra­tions.

Cham­pi­on train­er John O’Brien sent out two of his old­er Stew­ards Cup as­pi­rants, Hel­lo World and The God­dess Nike, over 600 me­tres last Sun­day (No­vem­ber 23)at San­ta Rosa Park in Ari­ma. They record­ed the morn­ing’s fastest time of 36.47 sec­onds for the trip.

Mr So­lo Too led a list of four boats and crews to have re­ceived dou­ble awards on Sat­ur­day when the Power­boat As­so­ci­a­tion held its Awards Func­tion for 2025 at Is­land Dare, Num­ber 1 Wood­brook Place, Port-of-Spain.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Head coach of the Bar­ba­dos Pride, Vas­bert Drakes has laud­ed his team’s work eth­ic af­ter they cap­tured the CG Unit­ed Su­per50 Cup ti­tle in T&T on Sat­ur­day.

​The fi­nals of the Na­tion­al Pri­ma­ry School Foot­ball League will be held Wednes­day morn­ing at the Ari­ma Velo­drome, be­gin­ning at 9.30 am. The cham­pi­ons of To­ba­go will trav­el to Trinidad to take on the cham­pi­ons from Trinidad.

ABU DHABI – Tim David pro­duced a stun­ning dis­play of pow­er hit­ting, while West In­di­ans Rov­man Pow­ell and Sunil Nar­ine made mi­nor con­tri­bu­tions in the UAE Bulls’ em­phat­ic 80-run win over the As­pin Stal­lions, which helped them claim their first-ever Abu Dhabi T10 League ti­tle in the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates on Sun­day (No­vem­ber 30).

Sex sells, and in­ter­na­tion­al sport gov­ern­ing bod­ies are con­tribut­ing to the sex­u­al­i­sa­tion of world sport. It is bla­tant hypocrisy and ex­ploita­tion.

Two amend­ments to the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) con­sti­tu­tion were made to en­hance the ef­fi­cien­cy of the dai­ly man­age­ment of the sport in T&T, ac­cord­ing to third vice-pres­i­dent Os­mond Down­er Sun­day.

Nicholas Ro­many and Aniqah Bai­ley se­cured the top spots in the men’s and women’s 10K events, re­spec­tive­ly, in the Guardian Group Shine road race at the Queen’s Park Oval in St Clair, Port-of-Spain, on Sat­ur­day. Mean­while, Keron Ali and Chen­nai Moore clinched vic­to­ries in the high­ly com­pet­i­tive 5K run/walk, which saw hun­dreds of run­ners surg­ing on­to the course in the an­nu­al event.