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The National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago (NGC) has provided platinum sponsorship to the Trinidad and Tobago Secondary Schools’ Cricket League (TTSCL), which will facilitate a combined SSCL Under-17 team’s participation in an international under-17 tournament in Colorado, USA. The tournament bowled off today and continues until Friday 8 …

The Defence Force Football Club announced the departure of head coach Densill Theobald, after an abrupt parting of ways today—just three weeks before their opening 2025 Concacaf Caribbean Cup fixture against Haitian outfit Juventus de Cayes at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain. The 43-year-old Theobald, in his …

“[…] My deepest concern is for the athletes. These young men and women trained for months, in some cases years, with the dream of representing Trinidad and Tobago on the international stage. Many made personal sacrifices. “[…] For these athletes, [this tournament] was the end result of hard work, hope, …

“[…] Shem Alexander, who remains in pre-trial detention in Florida, was arrested in Jamaica and extradited in November 2024—despite being cleared locally after a 15-month police investigation and without the indictment ever being shared with Trinidadian authorities. “Former Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley’s own public mention of being listed in …

There didn’t seem to be much point in writing about the ignominious end to the Test series between West Indies and Australia. Like rain flies swarming about after heavy showers, indignant cricket spectators have rained harshly abusive comments about the performances over the three matches. There have been some useful …

“They did an excellent job!” Longdenville Government Primary School coach and standard five teacher Danny Maharaj told Wired868. “We didn’t lose a match for the entire season… I think some of these players are going on to the national level eventually!” Yesterday afternoon, Longdenville closed off their 2025 cricket season …

“[…] Being humiliated is nothing new to West Indians born mid-1980s and later. But this 27 all out feels different—this feels irreparable. “In the past, every time we hit a new low, we always had a couple of players in the team that we knew, in the back of our …

“[…] Nobody could force Selwyn Melville; it is his intellectual property. The game is bigger than everybody, so let’s just move on, leave him alone and get another nickname—just like we moved on from ‘Strike Squad’. “[…] We have a World Cup to qualify for and this should not be an …

“[…] You could pick who you want at this point in time. You could pick whatever coach, he could come from where. “[…] The whole question of grooming and developing sports people is not just you pick some fellas because they make some runs in the first-class competition. The first-class …

“[…] Is this just another day in the office? Do you guys not have standards—pride in yourselves, and pride in West Indies cricket? “As a West Indian, I will NEVER forget that score…” The following Letter to the Editor, in the wake of West Indies being bowled out for 27 …

“[…] Progress is rarely straightforward… We have already seen encouraging signs, particularly with the ball… Now is the time to stand even closer as a people. “As an immediate step, I have advised the chair of the Cricket Strategy and Officiating Committee to convene an emergency meeting to review the …

Cricket connoisseurs had little doubt. If, in the last 15 years,  anybody was going to break Brian Lara’s 400 not out highest individual innings record, the hero would be one of five players. Who are the Fab Five? The first two are Australia’s Steve Smith and New Zealand’s Kane Williamson, …