Terminix La Horquetta Rangers managing director Richard Ferguson has put TT$100,000 on the table for Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Terry Fenwick. All Fenwick has to do to cash in, is lead his Soca Warriors to victory against the Pro League outfit. The Rangers offer follows …
Read More »Allen stars in late WI show, as hosts score 22 from 6 balls to clinch T20 series
At the end of the 18th over, West Indies were 112 for 7 without a specialist batsman left and 20 runs short of Sri Lanka’s total in the third and final CG Insurance T20 International at the Coolidge Ground in Antigua. Jason Holder had 13 runs off 22 balls while …
Read More »Colour me Orange? Warriors maul hastily arranged Tobago outfit in glorified fete match
After contrasting claims about the harmony—or lack thereof—within the Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team, head coach Terry Fenwick tried to put his worries behind him, at least temporarily, with an emphatic 8-0 win over a handpicked posse of Tobagonian players, branded the Orange XI, in a friendly encounter …
Read More »Sri Lanka spinners strike back to tie T20 series, West Indies fall by 43 runs
Sri Lanka spinner Akila Dananjaya recovered from Wednesday’s shellacking to take one wicket for 13 runs from his four overs today, as the tourists enjoyed the first success of their Caribbean tour with a 43 run win over West Indies in the second CG Insurance T20 International affair at the …
Read More »Griffith: Soca Warriors more unified than ever—despite empty promises from normalisation committee
“[…] I have been closely involved in the national teams for several years, inclusive of this one, and this present team is as closely knit as one can get. “[…] Now is not a time for division, finger-pointing, and disunity, and it is hoped that those in authority should in …
Read More »Pollard scores six sixes in record over, as West Indies whip Sri Lanka in opening T20
West Indies limited overs captain Kieron Pollard became only the third person in international cricket to score six sixes in a single over, as he blasted Sri Lanka spinner Akila Dananjaya for a record spell at the Coolidge Cricket Ground in Antigua. Pollard finished with a match-winning 38 runs from …
Read More »Former Barcelona Beach Soccer player, Amarelle, hired to lead T&T ‘Beach Boys’
Former Spain and Barcelona beach soccer player Ramiro Amarelle will guide the Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Beach Soccer team in their Russia 2021 Fifa Beach Soccer World Cup campaign, according to a TTFA release today. Trinidad and Tobago are among 12 nations who will participate in the 2021 Concacaf …
Read More »Best: Gayle forces his way back into T20 team; is tail wagging the West Indies dog?
Christopher Henry ‘Universe Boss’ Gayle, born 21 October 1979, contrived to pass a fitness test that Shimron Hetmyer, born 26 December 1997, failed—as did Barbadian all-rounder Roston Chase, 27, and Jamaican pacers Oshane Thomas, 23, and Sheldon Cottrell, 31. All four of those who failed have been active in the …
Read More »Flashback: Ghetto fabulous; re-introducing 2006 T&T star Aurtis Otis Seaton-Whitley
The following article was first published in the Trinidad Express on 27 October 2005 and written by Lasana Liburd: Otis Seaton was hired by Don Leo Beenhakker as the muscle. The Trinidad and Tobago national football team coach needed a player with the energy and courage to protect his back …
Read More »Sancho selected for Fifa club management diploma; controversial Pro League chairman on the rise
Former Trinidad and Tobago World Cup 2006 defender Brent Sancho looks set to continue his rise in the field of sport administration, as he was among 24 selectees from over 400 applicants for the inaugural Fifa Diploma in Club Management. The first edition of the programme will run from March …
Read More »Hetmyer, Da Silva, Chase named in 26-man shortlist for WI ‘Best v Best’ Test warm-up
Guyana batsman Shimron Hetmyer, Trinidad and Tobago wicketkeeper/batsman Joshua Da Silva and Barbados pacer Chemar Holder were among 26 players named by the Cricket West Indies (CWI) selection panel for a four-day practice match, named ‘Best v Best’, in preparation for the upcoming Test series against Sri Lanka. The match …
Read More »Pollard’s Reds attack with full force; toothless Jaguars prove easy game
Losing cricket teams have been out-thought, out-gunned, out-batted, out-bowled and generally out-played. But yesterday in the Super50 Cup final at the Coolidge Cricket Ground in Antigua, for the first time Kieron Pollard’s Red Force simply out-talented the Guyana Jaguars by 152 runs. The game was essentially over once Lendl Simmons …
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