Pres­i­dent of the Cen­tral Sports Crick­et Club Richard Ramkissoon is qui­et­ly op­ti­mistic that the im­mi­nent lift­ing of cur­rent coro­n­avirus (COVID-19) pan­dem­ic re­stric­tions, will al­low for the start of lo­cal crick­et.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Sir Andy Roberts has de­scribed all-rounder Ja­son Hold­er as a “damn good crick­eter” but says he is “lost” as a cap­tain, and should look to the coach­ing staff for help dur­ing match­es.

Rowe­na Williams' de­ci­sion to con­test the post of pres­i­dent of the T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion (TTCF) this time around came as a re­sult of des­per­a­tion on the part of the sport's mem­ber­ship.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua — Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) to­day paid trib­ute to Vi­va­lyn Lat­ty-Scott, the out­stand­ing West In­dies all­rounder and pi­o­neer for women’s crick­et in the Caribbean, who sad­ly passed away on Sat­ur­day.

Min­is­ter of Sports Sham­fa Cud­joe will await a pro­pos­al from a meet­ing of the T&T Pro League and T&T Su­per League clubs, which will be held vir­tu­al­ly on Thurs­day. The gath­er­ing of foot­ball minds is aimed at de­ter­min­ing the way for­ward for the sport.

Na­tion­al se­nior and Un­der-23 in­door and beach vol­ley­baller Daynte Stew­art led the In­di­ana Tech Uni­ver­si­ty men's vol­ley­ball team in style Sat­ur­day af­ter­noon at the Schae­fer Cen­ter, In­di­ana, USA as they up­set No 2-ranked Camp­bellsville Uni­ver­si­ty, 3-1 (26-24, 27-25, 24-26, 25-23).

West In­dies stand-in Test cap­tain Kraigg Brath­waite be­lieves though sev­er­al key play­ers are miss­ing, his side still has the ca­pac­i­ty, to win the two-match se­ries. Brath­waite’s cap­tain­cy it­self is as a re­sult of reg­u­lar cap­tain Ja­son Hold­er opt­ing not to go on tour be­cause of the COVID-19 threat. First choice play­ers such as Dar­ren Bra­vo, Shamarh Brooks, Ros­ton Chase, Shai Hope, Shim­ron Het­my­er and Shane Dowrich all turned down the op­por­tu­ni­ty to trav­el to Asia for the se­ries.

West In­dies head coach Phil Sim­mons has urged his un­der­strength Windies team in Bangladesh to look at the tour as an op­por­tu­ni­ty to stake a claim for their po­si­tion in the side. In his first press con­fer­ence via Zoom on Tues­day since ar­riv­ing in Dha­ka on Sun­day, Sim­mons said this se­ries is the be­gin­ning of prepa­ra­tions for West In­dies’ 2023 One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) World Cup.

The phrase - "The 3rd time's the charm" - is what Vaughn Wil­son was say­ing yes­ter­day af­ter he won his very first Shell Tran­quil­li­ty Open Men's Sin­gles ten­nis ti­tle at the Tran­quil­li­ty Courts, Port-of-Spain on Tues­day.

West In­dies women’s head coach Court­ney Walsh has ad­mit­ted that there is not much time for his side to pre­pare for the up­com­ing 2021 Women's Crick­et World Cup Qual­i­fi­er com­pe­ti­tion set for Sri Lan­ka be­tween June 26th and Ju­ly 10th.

T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion (TTCF) Pres­i­dent Joseph Roberts will be chal­lenged by for­mer pres­i­dent Rowe­na Williams for the po­si­tion of pres­i­dent when the An­nu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing (AGM) and Elec­tion of Of­fi­cers of the or­gan­i­sa­tion takes place vir­tu­al­ly on Jan­u­ary 30.

The re-ap­point­ment of Gideon Dick­son as the coun­try's se­nior men's vol­ley­ball coach brings with it new hopes of a re­turn to the dom­i­nance it once had in the re­gion, as well as hopes of break­ing in­to the top four ranks in the NORCE­CA re­gion.