The Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior team were humbled in London today, as they bowed out of the Unity Cup with a 4-0 loss to Ghana in the third-place playoff of the tournament. Coach Dwight Yorke made 11 changes to his starting team which lost 3-2 to Jamaica on …
Read More »“I’m Montserratian!” Ex-Soca Warriors head coach Angus Eve takes over at Montserrat
Former Soca Warriors head coach Angus Eve will steer Montserrat through their final two 2026 World Cup qualifying matches, after being appointed as stand-in head coach of the Emerald Boys. The Montserrat Men’s National Senior Team, incidentally, are in Trinidad and Tobago present which serves as the home venue for …
Read More »1975 CWC: New Zealand, Pakistan and the chasing Cricket World Cup pack
(Part 29.) Contenders and pretenders. With 22 days to go to the 50th anniversary of the West Indies victory over Australia in the 1975 Cricket World Cup final, and having examined the credentials of the Caribbean side in great detail before considering the prospects of Australia and hosts England, let’s …
Read More »1975 CWC: Kings in the North? John Snow leads England challenge on home soil
(Part 28.) England expects… If experience alone was the deciding factor, England would have won the 1975 Cricket World Cup running away. In no other part of the cricketing world was the limited-over game played in such profusion at that time. We already established that the first limited-over competition started …
Read More »‘Zoom Zoom’, Gosine get 2024 MVP awards; SSFL releases All Star squads
Ace St Benedict’s College forward Derrel ‘Zoom Zoom’ Garcia was crowned the 2024 Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) Player of the Year today, as the governing schools body held its annual prize giving ceremony at the Couva Point Lisas Chamber of Commerce. Remarkably, Garcia finished as the SSFL Premier Division’s …
Read More »Carty does it against IRL, Pooran loses it in IPL—what will it mean for West Indies?
You can be forgiven for thinking that the player who helped the regional team best Ireland by 197 runs in Sunday’s third ODI was Nicholas Pooran. Truth be told, when you hear that a current West Indian batsman hit eight sixes and 15 fours in a 142-ball innings of 170 …
Read More »1975 CWC: Chappell’s ‘Ugly’ Australians—why fierce ‘Aussies’ offered tough test
(Part 27.) Chappell’s “Ugly” Australians. Ahead of the 1975 Cricket World Cup, West Indies were installed as the bookmakers’ favourites to lift the trophy in the 21 June final at Lord’s. But with 24 days to go to the 50th anniversary of that golden moment in Caribbean cricket history, it …
Read More »Molino and ‘Bongo’ net; but Jamaica hold off T&T 3-2 in Unity Cup
The Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team will play for third place in the Unity Cup invitational tournament on Saturday 31 May, after the Soca Warriors fell 3-2 to Jamaica today in a pulsating affair at the GTech Community Stadium in London. Coach Dwight Yorke’s team overturned a two-goal …
Read More »1975 CWC: How Tony Cozier became the Sobers of WI cricket journalism
(Part 26.) Fountain of knowledge. While Joseph ‘Reds’ Perreira was almost dizzy with delight at being selected on the Caribbean radio commentary team for the 1975 Cricket World Cup, notwithstanding his limited experience, the man who would become his great friend and travelling companion over the next 40 years had …
Read More »1975 CWC: ‘Reds’ Perreira recalls his part in World Cup adventure
(Part 25.) Last of the Mohicans. Of those familiar voices who related the action of West Indies’ performances at home and abroad via the radio, only Joseph ‘Reds’ Perreira remains to tell the story himself of what it was like to be at the 1975 Cricket World Cup. So with …
Read More »RBNYFL 25: QPCC take U-20 title; Pro Series, B/Blasters, Trendsetter scoop up crowns
QPCC, Trendsetter Hawks, Ball Blasters Youth Academy and Pro Series snagged a trophy apiece as the 2025 Republic Bank National Youth Football League (RBNYFL) concluded on a dramatic afternoon at the Ato Boldon Stadium on Saturday 24 May. The Ball Blasters fell to a stoppage time winner from Pro Series …
Read More »1975 CWC: ‘Rigged’ groups and apartheid-induced calendar gap—how the World Cup got started
(Part 24.) Hoping for the best. One of the things you can never accuse self-proclaimed “cricket people” of is humility. In their haughty ignorance they go on endlessly about it being the gentleman’s game—blissfully unaware, or pretending to be unaware, that the Victorian phrase has nothing to do with conduct …
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