KINGSTON – Hero­ics from pac­er Ben Dwarshuis and bats­men Mitchell Owen and Cameron Green pro­pelled Aus­tralia to a tense three-wick­et win over the West In­dies in the open­ing T20I in Ja­maica on Sun­day.

Chris Richards Jr won the To­ba­go Golf Open Cham­pi­onships Di­vi­sion ti­tle for the third straight year when he scored 221 at this year’s edi­tion of the tour­na­ment at the Plan­ta­tion Golf Course, Mag­dale­na Beach and Golf Re­sort in Low­lands, To­ba­go from Ju­ly 18-20.

Kyra Williams claimed T&T’s sec­ond medal of the Ju­nior Pan Amer­i­can Track Cy­cling Cham­pi­onships in Li­ma, Pe­ru, on Sun­day night. The ris­ing T&T tal­ent sprint­ed to the bronze medal in the match sprint to add to the gold medal won by the trio of Ju­dah Nev­er­son, Je­lani Nedd and Javon Ram­roop in the team sprint.

KINGSTON – West In­dies white-ball cap­tain Shai Hope has ad­mit­ted that his side’s bat­ting col­lapse in the fi­nal overs of their in­nings is to blame for their three-wick­et loss to Aus­tralia in the open­ing T20I at Sabi­na Park, Ja­maica, on Sun­day.

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.

Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Vice Pres­i­dent Az­im Bas­sarath slammed crit­ics of Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Pres­i­dent Dr Kishore Shal­low in the af­ter­math of West In­dies be­ing bowled out for 27 runs against Aus­tralia in the third and fi­nal Test at Sabi­na Park last week Mon­day.

For­mer Prime Min­is­ter of Trinidad and To­ba­go, Dr Kei­th Row­ley has re­fut­ed claims by Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) pres­i­dent, Dr Kishore Shal­low that Cari­com gov­ern­ments were not do­ing enough to as­sist in the de­vel­op­ment of crick­et in the re­gion.

For­mer T&T Olympic box­er Kirt Sin­nette has been tipped as the chair­man of the T&T Box­ing Board of Con­trol, and as a di­rec­tor of the Sport Com­pa­ny of T&T Board.

GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana – De­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Rang­pur Rid­ers were de­nied a fourth con­sec­u­tive vic­to­ry in the Exxon­Mo­bil Guyana Glob­al Su­per League (GSL) af­ter heavy rain forced the aban­don­ment of their fi­nal group-stage match against the Cen­tral Stags here at Prov­i­dence Sta­di­um on Thurs­day.

Min­is­ter of Sports & Youth Af­fairs Phillip Watts said he ful­ly sup­ports the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion’s (TTFA) plans to re­brand the na­tion­al men’s foot­ball team fol­low­ing the con­tro­ver­sy over roy­al­ties for the use of the “So­ca War­riors” nick­name.

T&T's top-ranked golfer Chris Richards Jr will be aim­ing for a third straight T&T Golf As­so­ci­a­tion (TTGA) To­ba­go Golf Open ti­tle when the tour­na­ment tees off at the Plan­ta­tions Golf Course, Mag­dale­na Beach and Re­sort in Low­lands, To­ba­go Fri­day.

GEORGE­TOWN – The Guyana Ama­zon War­riors se­cured their spot in the Exxon­Mo­bil Guyana Glob­al Su­per League (GSL) fi­nal with a com­mand­ing four-wick­et vic­to­ry over the Ho­bart Hur­ri­canes XI, tri­umph­ing with 21 balls to spare here at The Guyana Na­tion­al Sta­di­um Wednes­day night.