West Indies lost their second and final warm-up match against Afghanistan today by 55 runs at the ICC Academy Ground in Dubai and will start their ICC T20 World Cup defence on Saturday on the back of a three-game losing streak. The defending champions, WI are chasing an unprecedented third …
Read More »T2021 W/C: Akeal replaces injured Allen in WI squad; Motie drafted into reserves
Left-arm spinner Akeal Hosein has been promoted to the West Indies’ 15-man T20 World Cup squad as a replacement for spinner/all-rounder Fabian Allen, after the latter player failed to recover from an unhealed right ankle injury. The ICC technical committee approved the change today. Hosein, a 28-year-old Trinbagonian, only debuted for …
Read More »Cordner returns to Women Warriors, as Jones names 23-member squad to face Panama
Norway-based stand-out Kennya ‘Ya Ya’ Cordner returns to international action for the Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Senior Team on Thursday 21 October 2021, when the Women Soca Warriors face Panama in a friendly outing from 3.30pm at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. The teams will clash again at …
Read More »Jones promises stability to ‘traumatised’ Women Warriors, said NC offered him job on Sunday
New Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Senior Team interim head coach Kenwyne Jones vowed to help stabilise a traumatised team and build on the work of former coach James Thomas, as he faced the media for the first time this afternoon in a virtual press conference. Jones, who has a …
Read More »Jones appointed T&T Women’s head coach; N/C: Konstin had ‘personal commitments and conflicts’
The Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Senior Team have their fourth international head coach in just two weeks, after the Fifa-appointed normalisation committee announced former Soca Warriors captain Kenwyne Jones as head coach this evening. Jones, whose coaching experience thus far comprises two assistant jobs under Stern John at Men’s …
Read More »American Futsal coach, Konstin, faces axe after ONE session; Kenwyne tipped for Women’s job
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) is set to appoint former Soca Warriors captain and England Premier League forward Kenwyne Jones as Women’s National Senior Team head coach. Wired868 was informed that the 37-year-old Jones, who represented Trinidad and Tobago at the Germany 2006 World Cup and the 2001 …
Read More »T2021 W/C: WI batsmen smothered in 7-wkt warm-up loss to Pakistan, despite late Pollard cameo
In Dubai today, in the first of two warm-up games before their opening T20 World Cup cricket contest, Kieron Pollard’s West Indies failed to get going. In a comprehensive defeat to Pakistan, they managed only 130 for 7, going down by six wickets with 27 balls to spare. The ‘Maroon …
Read More »T2021 W/C: WI have explosive batsmen and wily death bowler, but large boundaries can be factor
“[…] No fewer than eight of the 15 players chosen, namely Evin Lewis, Lendl Simmons, Chris Gayle, Shimron Hetmyer, Nicholas Pooran, captain Kieron Pollard, Andre Russell and Fabian Allen, have repeatedly proven themselves to be fully capable of winning T20 matches on their own, with their very powerful, often destructive …
Read More »Under pressure: Best looks at Viv’s measured approach to Gayle’s ‘Ambi’ swipe
A guilty conscience, those who grew up in Trinidad in the second half of the 20th century would often have heard, needs no accuser. Christopher Henry ‘Scrempy’ Gayle grew up in Kingston, Jamaica in the second half of the second half of the last century. But he probably heard it …
Read More »UFCTT slam NC’s ‘illogical’ appointment of Konstin as Women’s coach, demand technical committee
“[…] You will not go to a doctor to do a root canal or a dentist to do a heart surgery, why then hire a Futsal coach with no experience in 11 v 11 to coach your Senior Women’s Team? “[…] The growing concern for the UFCTT is the shortcomings …
Read More »W/Corner: Mexico march on but Boyz flicker to life, thanks to ‘Tappa’s’ Fisher expedition
Even with the globe turned upside down by ‘an invisible enemy’, mankind can still bank on the near certainty of death, taxes, Nicki Minaj saying something stupid on social media… and Mexico qualifying for the Fifa World Cup. It has been 40 years since ‘El Tricolor’ failed to successfully navigate …
Read More »NC appoints American Futsal coach to lead T&T Women’s team, Konstin ‘honoured’ by first 11-a-side job
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) has replaced Welshman James Thomas with American Constantine Konstin as head coach of the Women’s National Senior Team, on an interim basis. Thomas, who quit the job last week for the post of Bristol City Women and Girls youth development manager, had never …
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