Every­thing be­gins with the mind. I am big on ex­pe­ri­ences rather than things. Every lit­tle thing we do is go­ing to make an im­pact. All young peo­ple want to be en­gaged, to learn and grow, and to be a part of some­thing.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua—Trinidad and To­ba­go left-hand­ed bat­ter Amir Jan­goo has earned his maid­en Test call-up as Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) on Mon­day un­veiled the squad set to tour Pak­istan for a two-match Test se­ries, sched­uled from Jan­u­ary 17–29, 2025, at the Mul­tan Crick­et Sta­di­um.

Barataria Ball Play­ers and Diego Mar­tin Con­querors shared the spoils as the Sports Com­pa­ny of T&T (SporTT) Com­mu­ni­ty Crick­et Pro­gramme (CCP) signed off for 2024 with the West Crick­et Fes­ti­val on Sat­ur­day (De­cem­ber 21) at Diego Mar­tin Sport­ing Com­plex.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) has an­nounced the West In­dies U-19 Women’s team for the ICC Un­der-19 Women’s T20 World Cup, set to take place in Malaysia from Jan­u­ary 18 to Feb­ru­ary 2, 2025.

CAN­BER­RA – The West In­dies’ duo of Akeal Ho­sein and Shai Hope played cru­cial roles to help the Syd­ney Six­ers and Ho­bart Hur­ri­canes re­spec­tive­ly record con­trast­ing vic­to­ries when the Big Bash League con­tin­ued over the week­end in Aus­tralia.

VADO­DARA – West In­dies Women’s cap­tain Hay­ley Matthews be­lieves the side which quick­ly as­sess­es the con­di­tions at the spank­ing new Ko­tam­bi In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Sta­di­um will emerge vic­to­ri­ous in the first One Day In­ter­na­tion­al in In­dia on Sun­day.

Over his 11-year ca­reer which end­ed in 1991, Jef­frey Du­jon nev­er played in a West In­dies crick­et team that lost a Test se­ries. Dur­ing that pe­ri­od, the West In­dies won 15, with sev­en drawn in their 23 Test se­ries. Du­jon al­so played in a lim­it­ed overs team that won 14 straight se­ries be­tween 1980 and 1988. It is by far the most suc­cess­ful pe­ri­od in the team’s his­to­ry and ac­cord­ing to Du­jon “hold­ing each oth­er ac­count­able was key to the suc­cess of the side.

Ayan­na Rus­sell, T&T Red An­gels coach and Der­nelle Mas­call, who coached the lo­cal White An­gels team at the just-con­clud­ed First Cit­i­zens Jew­els of the Caribbean Women’s Foot­ball Tour­na­ment, be­lieve the tour­na­ment has put them in a bet­ter po­si­tion for the CON­CA­CAF Women’s Qual­i­fiers in Jan­u­ary.

The re­cent vis­it of the T&T foot­ball team to Riyadh, Sau­di Ara­bia, was a land­mark oc­ca­sion that un­der­scored the grow­ing re­la­tion­ship be­tween the two na­tions through the uni­ver­sal lan­guage of foot­ball. This trip was char­ac­terised by warm re­cep­tions, first-time ex­pe­ri­ences for some, and valu­able learn­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties, hope­ful­ly set­ting the stage for a ro­bust part­ner­ship in the fu­ture.

Pock­et Preda­tors and Rox­bury Shot Callers, two of the Na­tion­al Pool League’s (NPL) un­de­feat­ed teams go­ing in­to week five in Di­vi­sion one, were beat­en on De­cem­ber 17 .

T&T swim­mer Dy­lan Carter will fea­ture at the 2025 Bergen Swim Fes­ti­val which will be held from April 4-6 in Nor­way.

Leg­endary West In­dies fast bowler, Sir Andy Roberts does not be­lieve the ap­point­ment of Daren Sam­my as head coach of the Test team will re­sult in any im­me­di­ate suc­cess for the re­gion­al side.