NORTH SOUND, An­tigua – West In­dies Women were left to con­front their worst fears of a white­wash when they lost their fourth straight One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al to South Africa Women, with a 35-run de­feat on Thurs­day.

T&T swim­ming ace Dy­lan Carter and his Lon­don Roar team-mates moved up one spot to joint fourth on the ten-ta­ble af­ter the con­clu­sion of the two-day Match Day 6 of the 2021 In­ter­na­tion­al Swim­ming League (ISL) at the Fe­lice Scan­done Swim­ming Pool, Naples, Italy on Sun­day.

Words di­rect­ed at the se­nior na­tion­al net­ballers as they en­gaged in a high-in­ten­si­ty drill on Wednes­day evening, ful­ly aware of the tough as­sign­ments that lay ahead of them in Ja­maica at the up­com­ing Tri-Se­ries.

GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana – The Guyana Crick­et Board has slammed the se­lec­tion of the Twen­ty20 World Cup squad as a “fi­as­co” and has called on Crick­et West In­dies to fire the Roger Harp­er-led pan­el un­less they can jus­ti­fy the ra­tio­nale be­hind the tour­ing par­ty for the Oc­to­ber show­piece.

Learie Seecha­ran has re­turned to the win­ner's en­clo­sure at Hast­ing Race­course. The Twen­ty-five-year old Trinidad and To­ba­go's jock­ey en­tered the win­ner's cir­cle for the fourth time when he guid­ed the win­ner's en­clo­sure on Mon­day night in the fi­nal event on the day's sev­en-race card at Hast­ings Race­course in Cana­da.

De­spite los­ing their se­mi-fi­nal match to the St Lu­cia Kings by 21 runs on Tues­day, the four-time tour­na­ment cham­pi­on team the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) got four picks on the 2021 Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) team of the tour­na­ment. The quar­tet are cap­tain Kieron Pol­lard, off-spin­ners Sunil Nar­ine and Akeal Ho­sein and pac­er Ravi Ram­paul, who fin­ished with the most wick­ets - 19.

It is very dis­heart­en­ing to see the non-se­lec­tion of the fol­low­ing play­ers in WI T20 World Cup 2021 Squad: Ro­mario Shep­herd, Sher­fane Ruther­ford, Gu­dakesh Motie (Raw deal again!) and Car­los Brath­waite (won the last World Cup).

The Ari­ma Race Club (ARC) is be­ing proac­tive and are get­ting set for a smooth re-start of rac­ing on Oc­to­ber 9.

T&T se­nior men's de­fend­er Ke­ston Julien was an un­used sub­sti­tute as his FC Sher­iff Tiraspol made a stun­ning start to their 2021/2022 Eu­ro­pean Cham­pi­ons League Group D cam­paign with a 2-0 over Shakhtar Donet­sk at the Sher­iff Sta­di­um, Tiraspol, Moldo­va on Wednes­day.

Na­tion­al se­nior men's de­fend­er Ke­ston Julien has a 50/50 chance of fea­tur­ing for reign­ing Moldovan cham­pi­ons FC Sher­iff Tiraspol when the team kicks off its Eu­ro­pean Cham­pi­ons League (CL) Group Stage de­but on Wednes­day.

It will be foot­ball in Jan­u­ary, Feb­ru­ary, or pos­si­bly March of 2022 for stu­dent-ath­letes of the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) wish­ing to play in the 2021 sea­son.

BAS­SETERRE, St Kitts – Do­minic Drakes firm­ly etched his name in Caribbean Pre­mier League his­to­ry on Wednes­day when he held his nerve un­der pres­sure to slam a last-ditch cameo and pro­pel St Kitts and Nevis Pa­tri­ots to their first-ever ti­tle in a sen­sa­tion­al last-ball win.