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00:08continuing with sport after a bumper month of top performances justin graves is getting the
00:13attention he deserves the 32 year old all-rounder has been shortlisted by the icc for men's player
00:20of the month of july the barbadian was nominated along with england's harry brook and a tanzid
00:25hassan of bangladesh graves was instrumental with both bat and ball in the western east test win over
00:31sri lanka followed by their series draw against pakistan the all-rounder compiled 215 runs at 71.66
00:38while taking eight wickets at an average of 10.25 he had modest returns in his two odis but scored
00:45229 runs at an impressive strike rate of 214 across five t20 internationals now on the lighter side
00:54it's all about developing the future generation and such was the case as riyadh emirid coaching
00:59academy was launched on monday morning in east trinidad the former cricketer turned coach is
01:04hoping the initiative continues for a very long time time for school children and these youngsters
01:12made the most of it on a hot monday morning by playing cricket this as the launch of the riyadh
01:17emirid coaching academy took place at the honeymoon park in tunapuna with a former tnt cricketer also
01:23present for him this initiative meant a lot i always wanted to give back to the community
01:29where i grew up and you know no better place than honeymoon park so today is just a day for
01:34giving
01:35back you know making the kids know that you know we the um riyadh emirid academy is is it means
01:42something to them and you know we want to give back in many ways as we can and this is
01:47just a start
01:47of what we about to do having played international cricket and also coaching the title winning tnt side
01:53at this year's regional four-day tournament this new project was another step in the right direction
01:59and it showed since emirid derived great joy when seeing the children keeping active
02:04i mean it's it's my passion you know cricket has always been my passion um you know now i'm into
02:09coaching i have a very very big passion for coaching and i want to make sure that the kids enjoy
02:15and get
02:15the best possible coaching available so i have you know a few of my friends who are coaches as well
02:21imran khan iran alfred mikhail mikhail williams who's just a few who have been here today to assist in
02:27in helping me get this off the ground and he made it clear that it wasn't a one-off thing
02:32after all he
02:33has a desire to see some of the younger ones going on to play at a higher level or even
02:37making it to the
02:38international stage i want to i want to continue to do it you know every weekend i have to find
02:43the
02:43availability of the coaches most importantly because i want to make sure that when the kids
02:48come here to get the proper coaching and as well as my availability so it's going to be a little
02:53tricky but i want to get it off the ground and make sure that i'm here for the start of
02:56it and it's going
02:58to be a continuous thing in the near future in due course the unassuming 45 year old coach is hoping
03:04for an increase in participants knowing quite well everything takes its course vinod nawani chief export
03:10remember my good old days of playing cricket in the court well we are just five days away from
03:15the 2026 edition of the trinidad and sobago great race and we continue to feature as many vessels as
03:21we can tonight the focus is on timeless which races in the 60 mile per hour class owner gilson
03:28smith is quite optimistic about the boat attaining a top three finish this is timeless a vessel which
03:35races in the 60 mile class owner and throttleman gilson smith has been putting in a lot of work
03:41and he's confident of a good showing at this year's trinidad and tobago great race yeah the 60 is very
03:47packed and competitive this year and but with my driver and myself as a good shuttleman and a good
03:55driver i think we have a good chance of being um first second or third according to smith meticulous
04:02planning and preparations are required to get the boat ready for the seas and what's the state of
04:07the vessel at this stage well we're still working on the boat actually we're trying to put in our ballast
04:11tank because we think that it might be rough on the north coast this year so we're trying to get
04:16some
04:17weight forward and the engine is working proper so with the weight forward um and the tabs we should
04:24be doing good in the rough water also part of the team is new member anthony joseph who will do
04:28the
04:29driving having taken part in regatta's this is actually his first great race well i'm very excited
04:35i mean there's our new vessel as you can see we have a little more length so we're hoping to
04:40do a
04:41pretty good job on the north coast any nerves not really i'm very confident in the shuttleman as well
04:49so the question is what made joseph join smith to be a part of timeless well gilson and i have
04:55been good
04:55friends for a couple years and uh while i back he asked if i wanted to join the team but
05:01i wasn't
05:01available at that time but now i have some time from work so i decided to attend the great race
05:09it
05:09it's a known fact that vessels sometimes don't make it to tobago due to mechanical issues or even the
05:15conditions out in the middle as such smith has a message to all participants at this year's race
05:21i wish every team that participate in good luck because great race is not an easy race it's not
05:28for the swiftest probably in the gulf but when you hit the north it's a different race once the water
05:33is bad so i wish everybody good luck and don't count us out or we we come in the 2026
05:40edition of the
05:40tnt great race starts from 7 15 a.m at the foreshore and ends in store bay then we'll now
05:46on you
05:47hope that yamaha 250 is in good nick well you can count jareem richards as one of the athletes who
05:53finally got paid outstanding monies from the now defunct grand slam track event the man behind it
05:59all four-time olympic champion michael johnson confirmed he has delivered on his promise to honor
06:04his debt we had a catastrophic uh capital issue that really made it very difficult for us where we ended
06:14up
06:14underfunded for what we had built and what our actual budgets and goals were and that was a very
06:20difficult thing for us to have to deal with but in those situations you gotta get really really clear
06:26on what the goal is what i can do what's going to make a difference and me saying something isn't
06:34going to make a difference me getting this problem fixed getting these athletes paid
06:40is the only thing that matters so yeah and i'm i'm happy to say you know now right here that
06:46you
06:47know now i've been able to get these athletes paid we paid 11 million dollars um that we owed to
06:54athletes
06:55that's the most prized money and compensation that's ever been paid to track athletes to compete
07:02and now with the athletes finally paid johnson was asked the next obvious question about grand slam track
07:09events and a crucial question is is is the dream still alive i mean you said at the very top
07:15that
07:15you know you wanted to get get back into neutral can it be rehabilitated you know that's where i can
07:22focus now i could not even entertain you know a future for grand slam until i could get athletes paid
07:30and get a neutral space for for grand slam where you know we don't have any liabilities anymore and we've
07:37satisfied all of those um and and got the athletes paid so now that i've been able to accomplish that
07:44now i can think about you know what a future for grand slam track might look like touching on the
07:49fifa
07:49fiasco now the trust has been broken through deception that in a nutshell is the accusation being made
07:56against fifa president gianni infantino as uefa conquer calf and the asian football confederation
08:01have issued an open letter calling on the fifa boss to step down when an individual places himself above
08:10the collective that entrusted him with authority that duty has been abandoned and it says this about
08:18the world cup state proposal what football witnessed was a failure of judgment a proposal advanced on a
08:25compressed timeline without meaningful consultation and push towards a deadline before member associations
08:33could properly review its terms is not the product of an oversight it is the product of a design intended
08:41to limit scrutiny it did not acknowledge that the proposal itself was inherently wrong there remains
08:48no recognition that attempting to sell an interest in the fifa world cup was a profound failure of judgment
08:56not just a procedural misstep but a fundamental breach of trust with the very institutions fifa exists to serve
09:07well talk about this ultimate shot in the arm liverpool are about to get a real boost with a consortium
09:13led by amazon founder jeff bezos set to get a stake in the club the consortium is working on a
09:19deal to
09:20purchase a one-third stake that can make liverpool even bigger players in english and european club football
09:28if the deal goes through uh which i think it will and of course it was first reported by mark
09:33climate at sky news and he's reporting that he expects it to go through in the next couple of days
09:38it would value liverpool at six billion dollars which is around four and a half billion pounds
09:45now off the top of my head i think the last big um premier league club that changed hands was
09:52chelsea
09:53four years ago that was in a deal worth two and a half billion pounds but the new owners had
09:59to give
09:59guarantees that they would invest one and a half billion pounds into the club now this is a stunning
10:04return on investment for the club's owners fenway sports group goals or assists which one tickles
10:14your fancy we'll tell you which one did it for us with your monday play of the day
10:21more often than not the goal scorer gets most of the credit especially on great goals like this one
10:37the long distance beauty from dejan vukojevic will win many admirers
10:45but sometimes an assist can be just as spectacular
11:01how often do you see a somersault to throw in with precise accuracy to set up a goal
11:08and he even got his shirt to fit perfectly over his head in the same motion
11:12so for a somersault and precise throw in to set up his team's third goal
11:16nader muhammadi tumbles and tosses his way to tonight's tv6 play of the day
11:27i think we can do a double take of that one tomorrow team what do you think that's a look
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