LON­DON – Test cap­tain Kraigg Brath­waite got a start but failed to car­ry on but Glouces­ter­shire still did enough to take con­trol of their Coun­ty Cham­pi­onship clash with Mid­dle­sex.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – West In­dies Women’s chief se­lec­tor, Ann Browne-John, has un­der­scored the im­por­tance of a mul­ti-faceted ap­proach for de­ter­min­ing cen­tral re­tain­er con­tracts for the Caribbean side.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Di­rec­tor of crick­et, Jim­my Adams, has giv­en the as­sur­ance play­ers will not be ruled out of a cen­tral re­tain­er con­tract sim­ply be­cause of one bad year of per­for­mance, con­tend­ing the cur­rent sys­tem and cri­te­ria pro­vid­ed for fair­ness.

Cana­da-born T&T goal­keep­er, Gre­go­ry Ran­jits­ingh was not among his team’s ros­ter but US Ma­jor League Soc­cer’s Philadel­phia Union still punched their tick­et to the 2021 Sco­tia­bank Con­ca­caf Cham­pi­ons League semi­fi­nals with a 1-1 draw ver­sus At­lanta Unit­ed in their quar­ter­fi­nal sec­ond leg on Tues­day night at Sub­aru Park in Chester, Penn­syl­va­nia.

A num­ber of na­tion­al foot­ball coach­es and play­ers have fi­nal­ly got­ten a rea­son to smile. Some 40 coach­es and an un­known amount of play­ers will re­ceive pay­ments of salaries and stipends dat­ing back to April 2020.

LON­DON – Fast bowler Alzarri Joseph was thrifty but lacked pen­e­tra­tion as War­wick­shire kept Worces­ter­shire in the field for the en­tire­ty of day one of their Coun­ty Cham­pi­onship clash on Thursday.

Col­in Munro of the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers de­feat­ed Ish Sod­hi of the St Kitts & Nevis Pa­tri­ots in the in­au­gur­al fi­nal of the Hero CPL Es­ports Se­ries which saw the dif­fi­cul­ty lev­el of the game turned up, to re­al­ly chal­lenge these play­ers.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Un­capped Kaysia Schultz is among three new West In­dies Women play­ers hand­ed cen­tral re­tain­er con­tracts, as Crick­et West In­dies on Thurs­day yes­ter­day in­creased the over­all num­ber to 18 for the com­ing year, with all 15 play­ers re­tained from the pre­vi­ous year.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos—Chief se­lec­tor Roger Harp­er has ad­mit­ted to be­ing con­cerned about the fu­ture of Shim­ron Het­my­er, af­ter the tal­ent­ed stroke-mak­er this week lost his Crick­et West In­dies cen­tral re­tain­er con­tract.

Che Ben­ny scored prob­a­bly the goal of the tour­na­ment but he could not stop a gut­sy T&T team from go­ing down to host Guatemala 3-4 on Wednes­day night in the Fut­sal CON­CA­CAF World Cham­pi­onships at the Do­mo Polide­porti­vo de la CDAG in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

T&T’s men's beach soc­cer team is cur­rent­ly in Paraguay for a two-week train­ing camp ahead of the 2021 CON­CA­CAF Beach Soc­cer Cham­pi­onship at the Sports Com­plex Fede­fut­bol-Plycem in Cos­ta Ri­ca be­tween May 17-23.

T&T se­nior women’s hock­ey coach, An­tho­ny Mar­cano has ad­mit­ted that his team has been faced with a lot of lo­gis­ti­cal prob­lems in their prepa­ra­tion for next month’s In­door In­door Pan Amer­i­can Cups (IPAC) in the USA.