Guyana-born T&T se­nior men’s foot­ball team de­fend­er Aubrey David was ranked as the fifth most ac­tive out­field play­er world­wide for play­ers at the club and se­nior na­tion­al team lev­el in­ter­na­tion­al­ly for the 2021 cal­en­dar year.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – West In­dies Women’s tour of South Africa has been re­vised and will now con­sist of five match­es, in­clud­ing a warm-up con­test and four One-Day In­ter­na­tion­als (ODIs), as they fi­nal­ize prepa­ra­tions for the ICC Women’s Crick­et World Cup, Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) an­nounced on Wednes­day.

LESS than 24 hours af­ter be­ing con­firmed as a key re­turnee to the se­nior na­tion­al women’s hock­ey team fold, for­mer team cap­tain Alan­na Lewis has been forced to with­draw from the team ahead of the Pan Amer­i­can Hock­ey Cup in San­ti­a­go, Chile from Jan­u­ary 19 – 30, a qual­i­fi­er to the FIH World Cup.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – Head coach Phil Sim­mons has lament­ed Shim­ron Het­my­er’s ab­sence for the up­com­ing se­ries against Ire­land and Eng­land, say­ing the gift­ed left-han­der had “let down him­self and his team­mates” due to his on­go­ing fit­ness laps­es.

The year 2022 is shap­ing up to be a good one for the sport of box­ing, pres­i­dent of the T&T Box­ing As­so­ci­a­tion Ce­cil Forde has said.

La Hor­quet­ta Rangers own­er Richard Fer­gu­son is set to cap­i­talise on plans by Min­is­ter of Sports and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment Sham­fa Cud­joe to have con­tact sports back in ac­tion this year.

The 2022 rac­ing sea­son kicks off on Jan­u­ary 8, rather than the tra­di­tion­al Jan­u­ary 1, New Year’s Day card. Giv­en the state of race­hors­es in the coun­try at present, this rep­re­sent­ed a very wise de­ci­sion on the part of rac­ing’s ad­min­is­tra­tors. We can on­ly hope that as the 2022 rac­ing sea­son un­folds, equal­ly prag­mat­ic so­lu­tions will be em­ployed to ad­dress the many chal­lenges which are cer­tain to con­front the in­dus­try. As the 2021 rac­ing year end­ed, there was a mi­nor ker­fuf­fle around jock­ey rid­ing arrange­ments for a few hors­es owned by a promi­nent rac­ing own­er. With­out delv­ing in­to the mer­its of the ar­gu­ments, the rac­ing ad­min­is­tra­tors would be well served by al­ways ap­pear­ing to be trans­par­ent and con­sis­tent in their de­ci­sion mak­ing. In the cas­es un­der dis­pute, that trans­paren­cy and con­sis­ten­cy ap­pear lack­ing. Rac­ing can ill af­ford to lose any more of our com­mit­ted own­ers and one can on­ly hope that the ad­min­is­tra­tors can ar­rive at an am­i­ca­ble so­lu­tion to this mat­ter with the in­di­vid­u­als con­cerned.

On Wednes­day 29 De­cem­ber 2021, the T&T Olympic Com­mit­tee (TTOC) paid trib­ute to the ex­ploits of Trinidad and To­ba­go ath­letes on the in­ter­na­tion­al stage and in the end cy­clist Nicholas Paul and track and field ath­lete Michelle-Lee Ahye emerged as its Se­nior Sports­man and Sports­woman of the Year re­spec­tive­ly for 2021.

For­mer T&T Hock­ey Board “Sports­woman of the Year” and se­nior na­tion­al team cap­tain Alan­na Lewis is among eight changes made to the se­nior women’s team ahead of the Pan Amer­i­can Hock­ey Cup in San­ti­a­go, Chile from Jan­u­ary 19 - 30.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – Head coach Phil Sim­mons says West In­dies will use the Ire­land and Eng­land Twen­ty20 as­sign­ments lat­er this month to re­vamp their bat­ting ap­proach, as the Caribbean side look to re­build in the wake of a dis­as­trous T20 World Cup last Oc­to­ber.

KINGSTOWN, St Vin­cent – West In­dies Un­der-19s pro­duced a ster­ling ef­fort to beat South Africa Un­der-19s by 19 runs on Mon­day, suc­cess­ful­ly de­fend­ing a pal­try 126 to tie their four-match Youth One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al se­ries 2-2 at Arnos Vale Sta­di­um.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – A COVID-19 out­break in the Ire­land camp has re­sult­ed in sev­er­al headaches over com­bi­na­tions for the West In­dies tour, but man­age­ment says the tour­ing par­ty re­mained up­beat in the build-up to the four-match white-ball se­ries start­ing on Sat­ur­day.