DUBAI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – The up­com­ing In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil (ICC) Women’s T20 World Cup will fea­ture the largest pay­out in the com­pe­ti­tion’s his­to­ry with a 10 per cent in­crease from the 2024 edi­tion.

The Ro­tary Club of Port-of-Spain of­fi­cial­ly launched the 34th an­nu­al Dis­trict Games for Pri­ma­ry Schools on Tues­day, reaf­firm­ing its com­mit­ment to youth de­vel­op­ment through sport.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Trinidad and To­ba­go Red Force reg­is­tered the first vic­to­ry of this year’s West In­dies Cham­pi­onship by com­plet­ing a com­pre­hen­sive in­nings and 271-run win over the Lee­ward Is­lands Hur­ri­canes on Tues­day.

Horse rac­ing is about gam­bling; gam­bling is about tak­ing risks; tak­ing risks is about op­tions; and op­tions are about quan­ti­ty (and some­times qual­i­ty).

St Lu­cia surged to the top of the stand­ings af­ter a com­mand­ing 40-13 de­feat of the Cay­man Is­lands in the Jean Pierre Caribbean Youth Net­ball Tour­na­ment, at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies Sport and Phys­i­cal Ed­u­ca­tion Cen­tre (UWI SPEC) in St Au­gus­tine on Mon­day (April 13).

BEN­GALU­RU – Di­rec­tor of Crick­et at Luc­know Su­per Gi­ants (LSG), Tom Moody, be­lieves it is just a mat­ter of time be­fore star bats­man Nicholas Pooran finds his form in the In­di­an Pre­mier League (IPL).

France-based Chloe Fras­er and Imani Ed­wards-Tay­lor were the lone T&T play­ers to ad­vance from their re­spec­tive round-robin groups for the men's and women's sin­gles com­pe­ti­tion, which re­sumes at the Se­nior Caribbean Ta­ble Ten­nis Fed­er­a­tion Cham­pi­onships in San­to Domin­go, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, Tues­day from 9.30 am.

The T&T men’s Un­der-19 Rug­by 15s team com­plet­ed an un­beat­en tour of St Lu­cia as they won all three match­es in the in­au­gur­al Tri-Union Rug­gera­ma Se­ries at the Grand Riv­iere Play­ing Field in Cas­tries on Fri­day (April 10).

World Aquat­ics pres­i­dent Cap­tain Hu­sain Al Musal­lam is one glob­al sport leader who has dis­played no fear in tak­ing ac­tion that he be­lieves is in the best in­ter­est of his or­gan­i­sa­tion.

Three dif­fer­ent play­ers were on tar­get as Queen’s Park Crick­et Club (QPCC) whipped de­fend­ing T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League Tier II Di­vi­sion One cham­pi­ons De­fence Force 3-1 to move in­to a share of the top spot with T&T Po­lice at the De­fence Force Re­serve Ground in Mac­queripe, Ch­aguara­mas, on Sat­ur­day (April 11).

Na­tion­al net­baller Saman­tha Wal­lace-Joseph scored a sea­son-high 63 goals as three-time tour­na­ment win­ners Lough­bor­ough Light­ning with­stood a stub­born chal­lenge from Not­ting­ham For­est to come away with a 75-73 win in Round Sev­en of the Eng­land Net­ball Su­per League (NSL) at Mo­tor Point Are­na in Not­ting­ham on Sat­ur­day.

BIG South East Port-of-Spain (SE­PoS) en­joyed an un­beat­en week­end in the T&T Vol­ley­ball Fed­er­a­tion (TTVF) Su­per League ‘A’ Di­vi­sion as their men and women teams com­bined for three wins from three match­es when com­pe­ti­tion served off at the Na­tion­al Cy­cling Cen­tre in Bal­main, Cou­va last week­end (April 11-12).