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Guest contributor Roneil Walcott offers the first of a two-part look into his own dream West Indies Team, as Wired868 continues its look ahead to the T20 Cricket World Cup: Remember the name! What a moment! What a team!  The West Indies have done it again. They have defended their …

Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team interim head coach Angus Eve and his technical staff are among over a dozen Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) employees still awaiting outstanding salaries from the local football body. Eve was hired as Soca Warriors head coach by the Fifa-appointed normalisation committee …

Babar Azam’s Pakistan on Tuesday won the four-match series 1-0 but it was the weather that once again had the last laugh at the National Stadium in Providence, Guyana.  Pakistan managed as many as three complete overs against Kieron Pollard’s West Indies. It was better than the eight balls the …

The following article was penned for the TTOC Tokyo 2020 Olympic Magazine, prior to the ongoing competition:  With no spectators likely to be in the stands, for the athletes the Tokyo 2020 experience promises to be unique. For regional televiewers, says LASANA LIBURD, it will be, if not unique, certainly …

“[…] Let me here recall the late Sir Alf Ramsey’s explanation of how he managed England to their only major football title, the 1966 World Cup. The former wing-back said he did not have the players to fit any existing system so he developed one to fit his players. “[…] …

The nine overs completed in Wednesday’s First T20I between Pakistan and the West Indies at Kensington Oval in Barbados did not seem like a lot then. On Sunday at the National Stadium in Providence, Guyana, they did as the two teams were unable to get in as many as nine …

Pakistan’s 7-run win over West Indies in the second T20I at the National Stadium in Providence, Guyana, on Saturday turned on six elements: Pakistani skipper Babar Azam’s beautiful batting, rain’s inopportune 17-minute interruption, Man-of-the-Match Mohammad Hafeez’s miserly bowling, Evin Lewis’ untimely injury, WI skipper Kieron Pollard’s uncharacteristic lack of timing, …

Unified Football Coaches of Trinidad and Tobago (UFCTT) general secretary Rayshawn Mars has urged the Fifa-appointed normalisation committee to re-appoint technical and finance standing committees to better serve the local game, in the wake of the controversial recent selections to the Women’s National Senior Team technical staff. On Wednesday, the …

“[…] I strongly feel the under-rated off-spin of the ‘Universe Boss’ will be a back-up weapon and will work in WI’ favour. “I am bold enough to predict that [Obed] McCoy will emerge as one of the leading wicket-takers in the tournament. He is one of the most improved bowlers …

“[…] It is believed that [Brian Bain] got his goalkeeping skills from his elder brother, Brendan, who also had a stint in the same capacity at QRC. “The brothers held the spotlight when they faced each other in the AFL competitions on opposing teams—Brian for Ramsbottom and Brendan with Fulham…” …

No sooner had the strains of the Pakistan national anthem finished washing over the Kensington Oval in Barbados than the skies opened and began to empty themselves on to the venue. And by the time the rains had subsided long enough to allow Kieron Pollard’s West Indies batsmen to hustle …

“[…] I am certain that there are some with less qualifications [than myself] that have led our Men’s National Senior Team in the past. However, it seems that all of the above does not qualify me to be an assistant to a foreigner with no first team experience.  “To what …