LON­DON – Bar­ba­di­an Jofra Archer will play his first Test in four and a half years af­ter be­ing named in Eng­land’s start­ing XI for the third Test against In­dia be­gin­ning at Lord’s in Eng­land on Thurs­day.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – As part of ef­forts to grow the sport of crick­et across North, Cen­tral, and South Amer­ic, Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) will spear­head the es­tab­lish­ment of La Fed­eración de Crí­quet de las Améri­c­as (FE­CA).

T&T un­der-21 men’s hock­ey coach Glen ‘Fi­do’ Fran­cis says he is pleased so far with the prepa­ra­tion of his charges for the Ju­nior Pan Amer­i­can Cham­pi­onship in Asun­cion, Paraguay, from Au­gust 9 to 23.

If I’d asked you a week ago, “Who is Pieter Willem Adri­aan Mul­der?” most of you would have prob­a­bly blinked, shrugged, and mut­tered some­thing about a po­ten­tial new brand of Dutch cheese. The few avid crick­et fans might have vague­ly re­called a crick­eter. But oh, how times have changed!

HAL­LAN­DALE BEACH – Fresh off a dom­i­nant per­for­mance in the Smile Sprint at Gulf­stream Park in Flori­da over the week­end, the tal­ent­ed sprint­er ‘Im­ple­men­ta­tion’ is set­ting his sights on an even big­ger prize, the $2 mil­lion Ken­tucky Downs Turf Sprint lat­er this sum­mer.

MONA­CO – T&T’s sprint star Jereem ‘the Drem’ Richards will face a stern test in the men’s 200 me­tres at the Mona­co Di­a­mond League on Fri­day, squar­ing off against Amer­i­can sprint sen­sa­tion Noah Lyles in his first half-lap race of the 2025 sea­son.

All ath­letes need to be fit; this is as true for the equine ath­lete as it is for the hu­man ath­lete. In T&T, it seems that our sport­ing ad­min­is­tra­tors be­lieve that fit­ness is all rel­a­tive and while that might clear­ly suf­fice for in­ter­nal com­pe­ti­tion, time and time again, the fal­la­cy of that be­lief is proven on the in­ter­na­tion­al land­scape.

France-based Chloe Fras­er and Ma­lik Gopaul, both of Cru­saders were crowned cham­pi­ons of their re­spec­tive Un­der-19 Girls and Boys Sin­gles Di­vi­sion when the T&T Ta­ble Ten­nis As­so­ci­a­tion Arawak-spon­sored Ju­nior Sil­ver Bowl Ta­ble Ten­nis Tour­na­ment end­ed on Sun­day.

GEORGE­TOWN – Ja­maica won their first-ever CARI­COM Clas­sic Team Chess tour­na­ment in spec­tac­u­lar fash­ion af­ter Bar­ba­dos shocked de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Trinidad and To­ba­go in the penul­ti­mate round on Sun­day.

Ju­ly 4, there was an Op/Ed in a dai­ly news­pa­per head­line “Dirty Old Men”. The is­sue ad­dressed by the colum­nist (Vaneisa Baksh) was valid and re­al. The writer high­light­ed the preva­lence of in­cest, rape, mo­lesta­tion of every kind per­pe­trat­ed on boys and girls.

T&T’s Jahreef Miguel and Jerome Mor­ri­son fin­ished in eighth spot at the NORCE­CA Un­der-21 Beach Vol­ley­ball Cham­pi­onships, the of­fi­cial qual­i­fi­ca­tion tour­na­ments on the road to the 2025 FIVB Age-Group World Cham­pi­onships, which end­ed in the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic on Sun­day (Ju­ly 6).

The T&T boys’ team just missed out on the top spot af­ter go­ing un­der to Guyana 16-17 in the Ju­nior Caribbean Area Squash As­so­ci­a­tion (CASA) Cham­pi­onships Boys Team fi­nal at the South Sound Squash Club in the Cay­man Is­lands on Sun­day (Ju­ly 8).