Ath­letes will have to re-strate­gise to peak in March when the World In­door Track and Field Cham­pi­onships is ex­pect­ed to un­fold at the same lo­ca­tion in Nan­jing, Chi­na.

GEORGE­TOWN – For­mer Test cap­tain and stroke-mak­er, Ramnaresh Sar­wan, has praised Crick­et West In­dies pres­i­dent, Ricky Sker­ritt, for mak­ing the “hard de­ci­sions” since com­ing to of­fice a year ago, and wants to see him con­tin­ue the roll-out of his agen­da.

For­mer T&T head coach, Dr Han­ni­bal Na­j­jar, has held out lit­tle hope for the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion's (TTFA) ap­peal to the Court of Ar­bi­tra­tion for Sport (CAS), against FI­FA’s sud­den take-over of the or­gan­i­sa­tion.

MI­A­MI, Flori­da – The coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic on Fri­day con­tin­ued to wreak hav­oc on the Caribbean foot­ball cal­en­dar, with or­gan­is­ers forced to post­pone next month’s fi­nal stage of the Caribbean Club Cham­pi­onship along with the 2021 Gold Cup qual­i­fiers set for June.

The de­ci­sion of the T&T Su­per League (TTSL) to throw fi­nan­cial sup­port be­hind the for­mer T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA), four ex­ec­u­tive mem­bers, in their ef­forts to fight the world gov­ern­ing body for foot­ball, FI­FA, through the Court of Ar­bi­tra­tion for Sports (CAS) in Switzer­land, for re­mov­ing them from of­fice on March 17, is be­ing chal­lenged.

Head coach of the T&T Red Force Mervyn Dil­lon said yes­ter­day that he did not re­ceive a let­ter from the T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB) stat­ing that they were go­ing to ad­ver­tise the head coach po­si­tion at the end of his con­tract which ex­pires on April 30.

Train­er Glenn Mendez must be giv­en the nod for the top train­ing feat of last sea­son when the Justyn Kan­ta Per­sad-owned Juice Man won th2 2019 Grade One Mid­sum­mer Clas­sic over 1,900 me­tres at San­ta Rosa Park, Ari­ma on Au­gust 1 to pock­et the $96,150 first prize cheque.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Leg­endary left-han­der Bri­an Lara has re­count­ed how the sto­ried meet­ing with two close friends in the wee hours of the fi­nal day of the third Test against Aus­tralia on March 30, 1999 in Bridgetown, helped pro­pel West In­dies to an his­toric win, as he urged the re­gion to find col­lec­tive re­solve to fight the dead­ly coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic.

Crick­et op­er­a­tions man­ag­er at the T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB) Dud­nath Ramkessoon says that the de­ci­sion that the board has tak­en, con­cern­ing the po­si­tion of head coach of the na­tion­al team, is that there will be no sole se­lect and hence the po­si­tion was ad­ver­tised.

T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB) has ap­pealed the rul­ing of Jus­tice Frank Seep­er­sad who or­dered them to ap­point a five-mem­ber com­mit­tee to in­ves­ti­gate is­sues and con­cerns raised in a Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) fi­nan­cial au­dit.

Ramesh Ramd­han, gen­er­al sec­re­tary of the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA), has said he will not be drawn in­to an un­nec­es­sary fight with Kei­th Look Loy, the for­mer chair­man of the TTFA tech­ni­cal com­mit­tee, over al­leged in­for­ma­tion be­ing leaked to the new FI­FA-ap­point­ed nor­mal­i­sa­tion com­mit­tee, which has tak­en con­trol of T&T foot­ball.

Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) and the Eng­land and Wales Crick­et Board (ECB) have agreed to post­pone the planned West In­dies U19 tour of Eng­land, sched­uled for Au­gust and Sep­tem­ber due to sched­ul­ing clash­es.