Cen­tral FC and Tiger Tanks Club San­do moved in­to a two-way share for the lead at the top of the 12-club 2023 T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League stand­ings af­ter con­trast­ing wins in their re­spec­tive Match Day Three en­coun­ters Wednes­day.

Coach An­gus Eve is hop­ing to build on the team’s re­cent de­feat of re­gion­al gi­ant, Ja­maica, who is ranked 64th on the FI­FA rank­ing com­pared to T&T’s 104th, when they take on the Ba­hamas on Fri­day in Nas­sau and then Nicaragua on Mon­day at the Dwight Yorke Sta­di­um in Ba­co­let, To­ba­go, as the CON­CA­CAF Na­tions League nears its end.

In this coun­try that is T&T, the man­age­ment of sport­ing as­so­ci­a­tions leaves a lot to be de­sired.

TORON­TO, Cana­da – Cana­da-based mid­field­er An­dre Ram­per­sad says his maid­en call-up to in­ter­na­tion­al du­ty for T&T was a “great feel­ing”, and marked the ful­fill­ment of a child­hood dream to rep­re­sent his coun­try.

De­fend­er Aubrey David is sug­gest­ing the T&T team, throw all its fo­cus on the Ba­hamas team first, ahead of what can be a qual­i­fi­ca­tion to the CON­CA­CAF Gold Cup next year and pro­mo­tion to Group A in the CON­CA­CAF Na­tions League.

DUBAI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – West In­dies duo of Alzarri Joseph and Akeal Ho­sein have achieved ca­reer-best rat­ings in the ICC Men’s One-day In­ter­na­tion­al play­er rank­ings an­nounced on Wednes­day.

The in­au­gur­al Next Lev­el Con­sult­ing Lim­it­ed Com­mu­ni­ty (NL­CL) Cup Un­der-15 foot­ball tour­na­ment will get go­ing this week­end fol­low­ing its launch at the VIP Room of the Lar­ry Gomes Sta­di­um in Mal­abar, Ari­ma on Sun­day.

Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege San Fer­nan­do (Pres San­do) is the new Pow­er­Gen Sec­ondary Schools Crick­et League (SS­CL) Pre­mier Di­vi­sion 50-Over cham­pi­on. Pres San­do com­plet­ed the tour­na­ment un­beat­en as it pun­ished St Bene­dict’s Col­lege by nine wick­ets to fin­ish with an 8-0 record in the league on Tues­day.

POTCHEF­STROOM – West In­dies’ gal­lant bid for their first One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al se­ries win over South Africa in three decades fell flat in South Africa on Tues­day when they slumped to a four-wick­et de­feat at Sen­wes Park.

Kamil Pooran has been in­clud­ed in the Trinidad and To­ba­go Red Force team ahead of the team's match against Bar­ba­dos in the West In­dies Cham­pi­onship at the Queen's Park Oval in St Clair, Port-of-Spain which starts Wednes­day.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – T&T Red Force, still with­out a win in the West In­dies Cham­pi­onship, has been lift­ed by the in­clu­sion of Test wick­et­keep­er Joshua Da Sil­va and West In­dies speed­ster An­der­son Phillip, who has re­turned from in­jury, for round four, which bowls off Wednes­day.

POTCHEF­STROOM, South Africa – New cap­tain Shai Hope says he wants to see more fight­ing spir­it from West In­dies in or­der to cre­ate a win­ning men­tal­i­ty in One-Day In­ter­na­tion­als, and be­lieves the en­tire side can learn from the ex­cel­lence of Alzarri Joseph.