BAS­SETERRE – Kyle May­ers turned in a sen­sa­tion­al per­for­mance with bat and ball, but it was not enough to pre­vent the St Kitts and Nevis Pa­tri­ots from falling to the St Lu­cia Kings in the Caribbean Pre­mier League in St Kitts on Sun­day.

MEL­BOURNE – West In­dies open­er Shai Hope was re­ward­ed for his re­cent out­stand­ing per­for­mances when he was se­lect­ed by the Ho­bart Hur­ri­canes dur­ing the Big Bash League draft in Aus­tralia on Sun­day.

Trinidad and To­ba­go Un­der-17 crick­eters, led by all-rounder Bren­dan Boodoo, lift­ed their first youth ti­tle for 2024 win­ning the Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) U-17 Ris­ing Stars 50-Over Cham­pi­onship, af­ter their match against Bar­ba­dos end­ed in no re­sult at In­shan Ali Park, Preysal, Cou­va, on Mon­day.

The is­sue of child­hood obe­si­ty in the Caribbean is a press­ing health con­cern. In 2015, the Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA) re­port­ed that at least one in five chil­dren in the re­gion car­ry un­healthy weights. This trend cor­re­lates with the risk of de­vel­op­ing non-com­mu­ni­ca­ble dis­eases (NCDs), such as di­a­betes and car­dio­vas­cu­lar dis­eases, lat­er in life (CARPHA, 2015).

Walt Nor­eiga, coach of T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League cham­pi­ons AC Port-of-Spain, says his team needs to work on game man­age­ment if they are to get any­thing out of their sec­ond cam­paign in the 2024 Con­ca­caf Caribbean Cup at Es­ta­dio Mo­ca 85 in Mo­ca, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, on Tues­day night.

Jereem Richards sprint­ed to bronze in the men’s 400 me­tres at the Gold­en Gala Pietro Men­nea Di­a­mond League Meet in Rome, Italy, Fri­day.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – A do­mes­tic T20 com­pe­ti­tion in 2025 is in the works to de­ter­mine who will rep­re­sent the re­gion at the 2028 Olympics in Los An­ge­les.

T&T men’s net­ballers are up for the chal­lenge of the Amer­i­c­as Men’s Net­ball Cham­pi­onships set to pass off in St Kitts and Nevis from Sep­tem­ber 10-18.

In­ter­im So­ca War­riors Derek King kept faith with the play­ers who have rep­re­sent­ed T&T in the two sec­ond-round Con­ca­caf World Cup qual­i­fiers against St Kitts & Nevis and Ba­hamas in June when nam­ing his 23-man squad for the open­ing two Con­ca­caf Na­tions League League A match­es.

T&T's Mis­cel­la­neous Po­lice FC had a sham­bol­ic sec­ond-half de­fen­sive dis­play and fell to a 4-1 loss to Ja­maica's Cav­a­lier FC to re­main win­less af­ter two match­es in Group A of the 2024 Con­ca­caf Caribbean Cup at Sabi­na Park in Kingston, Ja­maica on Au­gust 29.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Pres­i­dent of Crick­et West In­dies (CWI), Dr Kishore Shal­low has re­vealed that the loom­ing ap­point­ments of a chief op­er­at­ing of­fi­cer and a chief com­mer­cial of­fi­cer are among sev­er­al new po­si­tions be­ing cre­at­ed at the re­gion­al in­sti­tu­tion.

Un­der the aus­pices of the Con­sulate Gen­er­al of the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go in Toron­to, a pre-launch cer­e­mo­ny took place on Au­gust 27, 2024 for the book en­ti­tled Lar­ry Gomes, “Mr De­pend­able”, My Life in Crick­et.