In sport, there are no short­cuts. You have to put the work in if you want to make it. It’s that straight­for­ward. Or is it?

DHA­KA, Bangladesh – Ja­son Mo­hammed hopes to use his un­ex­pect­ed call-up for the One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al se­ries here start­ing next week, to force his way back in­to the West In­dies side per­ma­nent­ly.

Gabre Mc Tair is the new Di­rec­tor of Phys­i­cal Ed­u­ca­tion and Sport Di­vi­sion, an­nounced by the Min­istry of Sport and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment (MSCD), on Fri­day.

MEL­BOURNE – An­dre Fletch­er end­ed a night­mare run of form with a spec­tac­u­lar un­beat­en half-cen­tu­ry as Mel­bourne Stars end­ed their los­ing streak with a crush­ing 111-run vic­to­ry over Ade­laide Strik­ers in the Big Bash in Aus­tralia, Fri­day.

The se­lec­tion com­mit­tee of the T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB) has de­cid­ed to chal­lenge for the 2021 CG In­sur­ance Su­per50 Cup in the re­gion­al crick­et tour­na­ment next month with a very ex­pe­ri­enced team which will be led by the hard-hit­ting all­rounder Kieron Pol­lard as cap­tain.

T&T vol­ley­baller Daynte Stew­art and his In­di­ana Tech team will be back in ac­tion Sat­ur­day, re­turn­ing to the Land of Lin­coln for a match-up with Jud­son Col­lege in El­gin, Illi­nois. First serve is set for 3 pm from the Lin­der Fit­ness Cen­tre.

New­ly formed Na­tion­al Foot­ball Coach­es of T&T (NFCTT) con­tin­ues to forge re­la­tion­ships with­in the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) and Sat­ur­day the NFCTT will meet with TTFA tech­ni­cal di­rec­tor Dion La Fou­cade to dis­cuss the po­ten­tial for syn­er­gy be­tween the lo­cal two bod­ies.

One week af­ter the T&T's se­nior na­tion­al foot­ball team played its first prac­tice against a lo­cal­ly as­sem­bled team as part of its prepa­ra­tions to­wards the FI­FA World Cup Qual­i­fiers in March, head coach Ter­ry Fen­wick pro­vid­ed the me­dia with an up­date on the squad's prepa­ra­tions fol­low­ing a train­ing ses­sion at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo yes­ter­day.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Crick­et West In­dies on Wednes­day ap­point­ed for­mer West In­dies cap­tain, Floyd Reifer, as the Un­der-19 head coach, tasked with the re­spon­si­bil­i­ty of prepar­ing the youth side for the ICC Un­der-19 World Cup, sched­uled next year for the Caribbean.

DHA­KA, Bangladesh – West In­dies’ tour here was thrown in­to tur­moil Thurs­day af­ter leg-spin­ning all-rounder Hay­den Walsh jr test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19, less than a week be­fore the start of the three-match one-day se­ries.

T&T Red Force cap­tain Kieron Pol­lard sig­nalled his in­ten­tion of light­ing up the Su­per50 Cup tour­na­ment with a stroke-filled in­nings in a prac­tice match at the Queen’s Park Oval in St Clair, Port-of-Spain on Wednes­day.

West In­dies One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) cap­tain for the Bangladesh se­ries Ja­son Mo­hammed be­lieves his side can turn pres­sure in­to per­for­mances with talks of an un­der­strength and in­ex­pe­ri­enced West In­dies squad mak­ing its rounds. How­ev­er, the Trin­bag­on­ian was adamant in his first press con­fer­ence that his young squad has what it takes to up­set the hosts.