Bene­dict Bar­rett scored a hat-trick to lead Harts to a com­mand­ing 6-1 win over Bertie's when the Queen’s Park Crick­et Club’s (QPCC) Carib/Ford Trinidad-spon­sored 8-A-Side Foot­ball Tour­na­ment con­tin­ued at the Queen’s Park Oval, Tra­garete Road, Port-of-Spain on Fri­day night (Oc­to­ber 4).

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – As­ton Vil­la winger Leon Bai­ley’s high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed re­turn to the Reg­gae Boyz line­up has been de­layed due to an in­jury set­back.

T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League club, De­fence Force have part­ed ways with coach Lloyd “Sonoltee” An­drews and his as­sis­tant coach­es, for­mer na­tion­al mid­field­er Hut­son 'Bar­ber' Charles and Devin El­cock, with the lat­ter serv­ing as team ad­min­is­tra­tor, ahead of the 2024/2045 do­mes­tic sea­son.

De­fence Force Past Play­ers (Over-40), and Ju­ven­tus of St John's (Over-50) will put their ti­tles on the line when the To­ba­go Mas­ters Foot­ball Tour­na­ment (TMFT) – the Caribbean’s most loved 'Mas­ters Foot­ball Fes­ti­val' com­mem­o­rates its tenth an­niver­sary Thurs­day (Oc­to­ber 10) un­til Sun­day (Oc­to­ber 13) at Shaw Park Sports Com­plex, Shaw Park and Cour­land Recre­ation­al Ground in Black Rock.

ST. JOHN’S, An­tigua Un­der­strength West In­dies T20I and One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) squads were on Fri­day an­nounced by Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) for their tour of Sri Lan­ka lat­er this month.

DUBAI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – West In­dies Women’s cap­tain Hay­ley Matthews be­lieves the Caribbean side failed to prop­er­ly adapt to the con­di­tions in Dubai dur­ing their 10-wick­et loss to South Africa in their open­ing match of the Women’s T20 World Cup on Fri­day.

Neven Il­ic, the cur­rent leader of the Olympic Move­ment of the Amer­i­c­as, was re-elect­ed pres­i­dent of the Pan Amer­i­can (Panam) Sports Or­gan­i­sa­tion in Asun­cion, Paraguay on Wednes­day (Oc­to­ber 3).

PROV­I­DENCE – The Bar­ba­dos Roy­als were min­utes away from elim­i­na­tion against the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers, but some­how mirac­u­lous­ly ad­vanced to the sec­ond qual­i­fi­er of the Caribbean Pre­mier League with a thrilling nine-wick­et win in Guyana on Mon­day night.

Just over one year since their last ap­pear­ance for T&T se­nior men’s foot­ball team, Kevin Moli­no and Jo­evin Jones, both for­mer cap­tains of the So­ca War­riors, are set to re­turn for this coun­try’s fi­nal two match­es in Group B of the CON­CA­CAF Na­tions League against Cu­ba.

PROV­I­DENCE – The Guyana Pow­er and Light Com­pa­ny Inc (GPL) and the Min­istry of Cul­ture, Youth and Sport have dis­tanced them­selves from the em­bar­rass­ing pow­er out­age which sig­nif­i­cant­ly af­fect­ed the Caribbean Pre­mier League play­off con­test be­tween the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers and Bar­ba­dos Roy­als in Guyana on Mon­day night.

LON­DON – Jos But­tler will re­turn to cap­tain an Eng­land side con­tain­ing two Bar­ba­di­ans in Jofra Archer and Ja­cob Bethell, dur­ing their white ball tour of the Caribbean lat­er this month.

For­mer cham­pi­ons West In­dies will start their In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil (ICC) T20 Women’s World Cup cam­paign against South Africa in the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates, Dubai on Fri­day from 6 am (T&T Time).