WELLING­TON, New Zealand – Ja­cob Duffy and Michael Rae grabbed two late wick­ets to put New Zealand in firm con­trol of the sec­ond Test af­ter a coura­geous ef­fort by the West In­dies’ bowlers brought them back in­to con­tention on Thurs­day’s sec­ond day.

Na­pari­ma Col­lege, the win­ners of the 2025 Pre­mier Di­vi­sion and the South Zone In­ter­Col ti­tles, made a clean sweep of the ti­tles at stake in this year’s Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) af­ter they de­feat­ed Sig­nal Hill Sec­ondary 1-0 at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Bal­main, Cou­va on Wednes­day evening for the Co­ca-Co­la Na­tion­al In­ter­Col crown.

ROSEAU – Do­mini­ca is set to re­ceive a state-of-the-art syn­thet­ic track and field com­plex cour­tesy of World Ath­let­ics.

WELLING­TON – The West In­dies’ bat­ters wast­ed a per­fect op­por­tu­ni­ty to stamp their au­thor­i­ty in the sec­ond Test, as New Zealand’s re­place­ment fast bowlers Blair Tick­n­er and Michael Rae starred on the open­ing day of the sec­ond Test in New Zealand on Wednes­day (Tues­day night TT time).

Five Rivers Sec­ondary have every­thing to play for Wednes­day as they face Pleas­antville Sec­ondary in the Girls’ Na­tion­al In­ter­col fi­nal at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um, Bal­main, Cou­va, start­ing at 3 pm.

WELLING­TON, New Zealand – West In­dies Test cap­tain, Ros­ton Chase, is of the view that his side is head­ing in­to the sec­ond Test against New Zealand “on top” af­ter their hero­ics in last week’s drawn open­ing Test at Christchurch.

The com­pet­i­tive dis­tance run­ning cal­en­dar for T&T’s 2026 ath­let­ics sea­son will of­fi­cial­ly be­gin with the Na­tion­al Cross Coun­try Cham­pi­onships 2025, an­nounced by the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ics Ad­min­is­tra­tions of T&T (NAAATT) in a re­lease yes­ter­day.

WELLING­TON, New Zealand – The West In­dies have suf­fered a ma­jor set­back with open­er Tage­nar­ine Chan­der­paul ruled out of the sec­ond Test against New Zealand be­cause of in­jury

GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana – A Guyana Un­der-13 squad has been named by the Guyana Crick­et Board (GCB) to face Bar­ba­dos in a five-match 40-over se­ries at home be­gin­ning on Sat­ur­day.

The Next Lev­el Per­for­mance (NLP) has part­nered with the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) to host the 2025 Na­tion­al Soc­cer Com­bine, an event that will bring to­geth­er the coun­try’s top 40 male and top 25 fe­male youth foot­ballers for three days of elite test­ing, com­pe­ti­tion, and in­ter­na­tion­al scout­ing ex­po­sure at the TTDF train­ing field, Mac­queripe, Ch­aguara­mas, from De­cem­ber 12 to 14.

In a blis­ter­ing and sober­ing as­sess­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go foot­ball, leg­endary for­mer Tech­ni­cal Di­rec­tor and icon­ic goal­keep­er Lin­coln “Tiger” Phillips has de­clared the na­tion’s re­cent World Cup qual­i­fy­ing fail­ure “no big sur­prise,” paint­ing a pic­ture of a sys­tem in pro­found cri­sis.

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand – All-rounder Justin Greaves has hailed Test crick­et as a “mas­sive step up” from the re­gion­al first-class cir­cuit, fol­low­ing a mon­u­men­tal match-sav­ing dou­ble cen­tu­ry that stunned New Zealand re­cent­ly.