T&T se­nior men's and women's hock­ey teams are ex­pect­ed to be­gin their de­par­ture on Sun­day for their re­spec­tive 2022 Pan Amer­i­can Hock­ey Cup in San­ti­a­go, Chile. The tour­na­ments which run from Jan­u­ary 19 – 30 will serve as qual­i­fiers to their re­spec­tive FIH World Cup.

Ju­di­cious plan­ning and trans­paren­cy have been a ma­jor hin­drance to suc­cess to sport in T&T. It is there­fore im­per­a­tive that the Am­a­teur Swim­ming As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (ASATT) es­tab­lish­es se­lec­tion pol­i­cy and cri­te­ria which is based on a de­ter­mined se­lec­tion phi­los­o­phy, with the fi­nal prod­uct be­ing a fair trans­par­ent process of na­tion­al team se­lec­tion.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Three un­capped play­ers and ex­pe­ri­enced leg-spin­ner and right-hand­ed bat­ter Afy Fletch­er have been in­clud­ed in the 18-mem­ber squad for the One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) se­ries against South Africa Women lat­er this month.

T&T’s Daynte Stew­art con­tin­ued his good ear­ly sea­son form as he led In­di­ana Tech ‘War­riors’ to back-to-back vic­to­ries over Trine in three days in the Cross Roads Cross Over Tour­na­ment in In­di­ana.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – As West In­dies Women head in­to their ODI se­ries against South Africa Women, head coach Court­ney Walsh says they Caribbean women have start­ed the year with great en­er­gy and he was pleased with what he saw at the just-end­ed Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) med­ical and fit­ness camp.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – A mis­fir­ing top or­der has left West In­dies with is­sues to re­solve ahead of Sun­day’s de­ci­sive third One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al against Ire­land, and cap­tain Kieron Pol­lard is not op­posed to try­ing new com­bi­na­tions as his side take aim at an im­por­tant se­ries win.

GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana – Cap­tain Ac­k­eem Au­guste struck a half-cen­tu­ry but West In­dies Un­der-19s re­mained haunt­ed by their bat­ting woes and slumped to a six-wick­et de­feat to Aus­tralia Un­der-19s in their open­ing match of the ICC Un­der-19 World Cup on Fri­day.

Ath­letes ap­ply­ing for Elite Ath­letes As­sis­tance Fund­ing (EAAP) from gov­ern­ment will have un­til April 1 to sub­mit their ap­pli­ca­tions.

The T&T Un­der-20 squad has been trimmed to 34 play­ers at least for the ear­ly phase of prepa­ra­tion ahead of the Un­der-20 CON­CA­CAF Qual­i­fiers in June/Ju­ly.

The de­sire and com­mit­ment to have in­ter­na­tion­al crick­et tour­na­ments, such as the Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) and the cur­rent ICC Un­der-19 Crick­et World Cup are be­ing called for to have lo­cal sports back in ac­tion.

De­on Leon­dore is set to be ho­n­oured posthu­mous­ly by the Ari­ma Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion as the first mem­ber of the soon to be built 'He­roes Park' which is ex­pect­ed to be nes­tled be­tween the Ari­ma Ten­nis Court and the Net­ball Court, once ap­proval is giv­en.

GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana – West In­dies Ris­ing Stars will hope to turn the page on a spell of in­dif­fer­ent form and start their ICC Un­der-19 Crick­et World Cup cam­paign on a win­ning note when they face mul­ti­ple-time cham­pi­ons Aus­tralia Un­der-19s on Fri­day.