“You need to love pain. How­ev­er, men­tal­ly, phys­i­cal­ly, love it. You need to love it, if not, stay where you are,” a quote from the leg­endary Thier­ry Hen­ry on be­com­ing a foot­baller.

The T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB), as promised, has ini­ti­at­ed le­gal ac­tion against its for­mer ac­count ex­ec­u­tive, Ali­cia David-Jones, con­cern­ing the al­leged mis­ap­pro­pri­a­tion of up to $500,000 in funds.

Just two weeks in­to prepa­ra­tion ahead of the Women’s World Cup Qual­i­fiers, which will be­gin next month, re­cent­ly ap­point­ed na­tion­al coach An­gus Eve has re­signed.

Debu­tants, The Un­touch­ables, are mak­ing their pres­ence felt in the Na­tion­al Pool League’s Pre­mier Di­vi­sion.

MIR­PUR, Bangladesh – Cap­tain Shai Hope and Akeal Ho­sein com­bined to lead West In­dies to an un­like­ly, heart-stop­ping vic­to­ry over Bangladesh in the sec­ond One Day In­ter­na­tion­al that had to be de­cid­ed by a rare Su­per Over on Tues­day.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – With a hec­tic 2026 sched­ule fast ap­proach­ing, West In­dies Women have be­gun an in­ten­sive eight-week train­ing camp in An­tigua to pre­pare them­selves for a rig­or­ous year of crick­et.

MIR­PUR, In­dia – Faced with a do or die sit­u­a­tion of win­ning the sec­ond One Day In­ter­na­tion­al against Bangladesh to keep the se­ries alive, West In­dies spin­ner Khary Pierre has called on his team­mates to quick­ly adapt to the spin­ner friend­ly wick­ets on the Asian sub-con­ti­nent.

GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana – The Caribbean As­so­ci­a­tion of Na­tion­al Olympic Com­mit­tees (CANOC) held a crit­i­cal work­shop in Guyana over the week­end, aimed at strength­en­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion in sports through­out the Caribbean.

Sikar­i­oz Bil­liards Club and Cue Mas­ters are the on­ly un­de­feat­ed teams af­ter five weeks of com­pe­ti­tion in the Na­tion­al Pool League first di­vi­sion.

MIR­PUR, In­dia – Akeal Ho­sein and Ra­mon Sim­monds have named as re­place­ments for the West In­dies in the on­go­ing One Day In­ter­na­tion­al se­ries against Bangladesh.

Ma­jor ad­just­ments have been made to this sea­son’s ver­sion of the T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League (TTPFL), and they will en­sure that clubs qual­i­fy­ing for re­gion­al tour­na­ments will be in a po­si­tion of readi­ness and rep­re­sent the coun­try with pride.

ON­TARIO, Cana­da – Saint Lu­cia cy­cling leg­end Jean Louis passed away over the week­end af­ter be­ing in­volved in a ve­hic­u­lar ac­ci­dent in Burling­ton.