BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — Cricket West Indies says the successful roll-out of COVID-19 protocols for its upcoming domestic tournaments will send a strong message the Caribbean is capable of hosting international engagements during the ongoing global pandemic. The Super50 Cup is scheduled for February 7-27 in Antigua while a shortened version of the first class championship […]
Donna Raynor, President of the Bermuda National Athletics Association, says the island is ready to host the CARIFTA Games regardless of whatever rescheduled date organisers ultimately settle upon. Bermuda was scheduled to host the Games last year but the annual event was postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Organisers then rescheduled the Games for the […]
Cricket West Indies (CWI) is anticipating a financial windfall this year, with four major home tours expected to provide a much needed injection of money for the cash-strapped Antigua-based body. Sri Lanka, South Africa, Australia and Pakistan are all expected in the Caribbean later in the year. The region had been scheduled to host several […]
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — Assistant coach Roddy Estwick has urged players to make a quick adjustment to conditions in Bangladesh if they are to be successful on what he anticipates will be a “very, very difficult tour”, which gets underway in less the two weeks. Speaking just prior to his departure with the last group of […]
LONDON – Seven-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton was awarded a knighthood in the UK New Year’s honours list published last week The 35-year-old last year became the most successful F1 driver of all time after equalling Ferrari great Michael Schumacher’s record seven titles and beating the German’s 91 race wins. The sport’s only […]
Superstar Chris Gayle and West Indies white-ball captain, Kieron Pollard, have been named in the International Cricket Council’s Twenty20 Team-of-the-Decade. In awards announced last week by the sport’s world governing body, West Indies women’s captain, Stafanie Taylor of Jamaica, along with the dynamic Barbadian all-rounder Deandra Dottin were also included in the ICC Women’s T20I […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Joshua Da Silva’s impressive half-century on debut did little to diminish West Indies’ pain as they crumbled to an innings and 12-run defeat to the Black Caps inside the first hour of the penultimate day of the second Test here on Sunday. Resuming on 244 for six, West Indies lost captain […]
Canada Soccer has spoken out after Canadian national team stars Alphonso Davies and Jordyn Huitema were the subject of racism remarks on social media. “Canada Soccer stands firm against racism and discrimination of any kind both in the game and within all of our communities around the world,” the Canadian governing body said in a […]
MIAMI— The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) announced last Thursday the structure of a new senior women’s national team football calendar which will begin in 2021 and include major centralised summer tournaments in 2022 and 2024. In a release, the sub-continental body said its council approved this structure of new […]
The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) said it has decided that the regional qualifiers for its Women’s Under-17 competitions have been cancelled. This follows the decision of FIFA, the sport’s World governing body, last week to cancel the Women’s Under-20 and Women’s Under-17 World Cups. Eight Caribbean Football Union (CFU) […]
