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Trinidad and Tobago Premier Football League (TTPFL) club owner Michael De Four passed away at the Intensive Care Unit of the San Fernando General Hospital, where he was warded for the past few days. Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president Kieron Edwards confirmed De Four’s death via a press …

There can be no doubt that eventual winners India deserved to have the lion’s share of the places on the T20WC24 Team of the Year. With a twelfth man included, India’s six picks represent exactly half of the places. But if we take away the capital letters and reference the …

Versatile 18-year-old flanker Rio Cardines will aim to end Trinidad and Tobago’s decade-long absence from the England Premier League in the not-so-distant future, after the teenager agreed professional teams with Crystal Palace today. The Premier Division club confirmed that Cardines, who joined the Palace Under-16 team in 2022, is now …

They choked! Again! At the last hurdle, just the wrong time! At just the right time, struggling star batsman Virat Kohli found his form to help 2007 Champions India sneak past South Africa by seven runs at Kensington Oval in Barbados on Saturday. The former skipper’s carefully constructed 76 (59 …

Both of the semi-final matches in this T20 World Cup were demolitions. The match between Afghanistan and South Africa was actually painful to watch. Even if you supported the SA team, from a sporting perspective, it is unpleasant to look at that kind of devastation—like schoolchildren being trounced by adults. …

A measured third-wicket partnership of 73 between skipper Rohit Sharma and Suryakumar Yadav put India in the driver’s seat in the T20 World Cup semifinal in Providence, Guyana today. On a track where the bounce remained low throughout, the pair got India to a just-above-par score of 171—a sub-par England …

Riding high after qualifying for their first ever World Cup semi-final, Afghanistan were yesterday brought very low—56 all out—by South Africa. At the Brian Lara Academy in Tarouba, Aiden Markram’s men reached their target for the loss of just one wicket to book a place in a World Cup final …

Bobby did not know that Pakistan, New Zealand and Sri Lanka would fall at the first hurdle. But he knew that WI would not go beyond the Super Eight—“if they get that far”. He’s been saying it for weeks. And he knew Nicholas Pooran would not deliver when it mattered; …

West Indies are out of the 2024 ICC T20 World Cup. On a night interrupted by showers in Antigua, it was the self-titled Rainbow Nation that shone in the end as South Africa emerged with a three-wicket win—with five balls to spare. Allrounder Roston Chase starred with bat and ball …

We lost the first 2024 ICC T20 World Cup Super Eight match against England in a clinical encounter that brought a harsh dose of reality. A match report here is not rele­vant. Suffice it to say that while the batters are more willing to take singles, there are still far …

Opener Shai Hope posted his best-ever T20I score of 82 not out at his hometown in Bridgetown last night, as the West Indies crushed the United States of America by nine wickets with 55 balls remaining—for their first Super Eight win of the 2024 ICC T20 World Cup. The Maroon …

The West Indies cricket team will have the services of 31-year-old batting allrounder Kyle Mayers for the remainder of the ICC 2024 T20 World Cup, after he was approved to join the squad by the ICC Event Technical Committee. Mayers replaces 29-year-old opening batsman Brandon King, who was ruled out …