 Cricket time now on the Sportsmax on the Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League moves to Ghana starting Wednesday But can boast of a successful Trinidad at Tobago Lake Trinbego night riders lost just once In their four matches while the women's Massey Caribbean Premier League ended with Barbados Royals on top Mariah has since returned to the land of wood and water and is excited to share her experience in the country of her birth The show I will say that this year's CPL I was really really interested in the woman's version of the tournament and it's because I got to witness so many of the International players gel with you know the local regional players if I'm to say so and I think and I truly believe that The integration of these international players lifted the quality of the woman's tournament. We saw a century from Sophie divine We saw players like Shabnam Ishmael Shreyanka Patel come into these set up and of course add so much quality and value And I think it will benefit the regional players because they got the opportunity Some of them probably never got the opportunity before to rub shoulders with players of this quality And I think it can only benefit their game So kudos to CPL for that where the woman cricket is concerned, but in Trinidad and Tobago We love a party. We love having a good time So y'all could imagine the turnout that they there was at the CPL matches a Lot of fun lands a lot of drinking dancing singing sometimes I wonder if the people even paying attention to the cricket Well with the trinidad sometimes you you really genuinely have to ask There was a point where the mound at Sabina Park had become a big hit Yes, and there are a lot of people who went to watch cricket at Sabina Park and were stationed at the mound That had very little interest in the cricket. They were doing all the things. Yeah, and Ricardo To move along from Lanza's point I met so many of our viewers. Yes, you know in Trinidad and Tobago One of the things is they said that they missed me because you know, I am I kind of like soft enough this show for them When you and Lanza are all that's so sweet A lot of people ask for you and Lanza. I just had to put that in and you know It was really a good experience CPL in Trinidad The action moves the Ghana now and I know it will be just as good because I've been told I've never been to Ghana Let me put that out there. Well, the guy needs love cricket just as much as the Trinidad Even more. Right. So you can add that for me. I saw a picture this morning of the Airport in Guyana Individuals arriving last night and it was jam-packed. I wonder if that had anything to do with the cricket I'm sure I'm sure it had where the Caribbean Premier League is an organization that prides itself on Women's inclusion in today's feature Mariah has a chat with a woman who has blazed a trail in broadcasting She's a former host of the Sportsmax own Alex Jordan Well, I'm so excited about this interview I'm sitting with a woman who needs no introduction Alex Jordan Of course, she was on the show before me and I'm so happy to share this platform with you Alex. Welcome. Well, thank you so much Thank you. Yeah, so today, of course, you know my interview is surrounded getting to know you and just your journey throughout this career You've been dominating. You've been brilliant. Thank you. I don't know about dominating But where did I start it's it's hard to know where I started because really I come out of music, you know I was a radio DJ a voiceover artist really music has been my first passion and first job and first life But I've always been an athlete, right? I'm a three-time Barbados national. I play squash for Barbados I played junior golf hope to play senior golf one day and I swam so I've always been into competitive sport But I wasn't working in sports and I've never studied one day about TV or broadcasting My study was third-world politics with languages, right? I I didn't really study for this But then I got a call from Sportsmax one day Because they lost Alexis Nunez who I replaced and off I went to do live television and I learned on the job So it's just been a lot of luck and timing and you know I did that show at Sportsmax and then we went to CPL and then from CPL to the world So, you know, I don't know what to tell you about my journey other than I've been very lucky You say luck and timing, but I think it also involves a lot of hard work I met you at the last CPL match and it says if you switched off from the woman I was actually telling you that Barbados was at the top of the table, but you were like no you had already moved on to the next game So it's a lot of hard work as well It is and you know there's an expression that you create your own luck Right in life the energy you put out there the effort the level of effort Yeah, I work hard because I everybody has their different styles and I Right An over preparer I would like to know more than I need Yeah, so that that has definitely been The thing on and cricket. I mean cricket is has given me A lifeline a way to make a living a way to become known in the field of broadcasting and cricket Credit cricket is a game that you will learn your whole life and still not know everything So, yeah, just being in this sort of Humble mindset the whole while that I never reach anywhere. I'm always still reaching. I'm always still learning and Gosh there's so much to learn haters can't get to me. You know, I Nobody's a bigger Alex Jordan hater than Alex Jordan. Yeah, like literally if I get hate messages like you suck I would like I know dread. I know, but I am improving. I am improving and I'm going to work on that Thank you very much. You can't get to me because I have to be full of ego for that to hurt me talk to us about a bit of the struggles, you know To get from that point and Alex Jordan just getting started in the business to now the one that says I'm my biggest hit on I can deal with what you have to say about me because I know myself better than you do Gosh, how much time have you got first of all? Daddy rest in peace, but you didn't really prepare me. My father was such an equal opportunity father didn't treat my sister And I any differently from my brother So I grew up in a household where gender relations were very equal It's only when I got any world where I was like I'm speaking and no one in this room is listening to me. Can they not hear my big booming voice? I literally was so taken aback that I had to I all of a sudden realize. Oh my god, the world treats women differently Luckily, I had not drunk the Kool-Aid My programming was already that I am my own person and I have value My gender is almost irrelevant I think the hardest thing about it being a woman in sports and particularly sports tv because remember I come out of radio Yeah Is balancing this idea of how beautiful you have to look And when I realized when I started just Relaxing on how I look is how I look and however people perceive me is going to however they perceive me Really working on my character. Yes, how I make people feel the value of my intelligence and my Opinions and my angles of observation is what I value I'm not sure what they value But I have to stick to what I value and the moment I started shifting from worrying worrying worrying To actually no no y'all want to hear what I have to say like let's roll That was a big shift for me and it's difficult for you for your generation the people below you because social media You know pick or it didn't happen Right, this is the culture that you live in how something looks Matters a lot, but I would urge a lot of women To maybe focus a little less on how something looks And think about how it feels how it you know, I talk about we are human beings But in this generation, you all don't do a lot of being you all do a lot posing setting up looking like we're being No, you have to be in your body be present in the moment. This is it. Yeah So alex as we get ready to wrap and of course I thank you for taking the time What's the legacy that you intend to do? I guess I I would like to leave a legacy That You can take your own path that there's not one prescription to being a woman or to being a west indian or to being Whatever you want to be I hope I leave a legacy of You know You can do anything you want to do and don't don't let anyone put any barriers on you When they called me to come into live tv I was 40 I went into tv at 40 as a woman I want that to be an inspiration to someone who's turning 30 and feeling like the world is over World is just beginning. You know, don't let people devalue you do not subscribe to those old tropes about age or you know gender or class race Be your own self, you know rise above it and and you'll be amazed at how people react to you Yeah, well for sure. You know how to make people feel good. I want to thank you so much for joining us I'm sure you enjoyed that. Alex Jordan is not a normal individual. She has a dynamic brain and A hugely talented woman and it was a pleasure to work with her for the time that she was at sportsmax Yeah, it was amazing to work with her lance and I tell you a quick story When I just came to sportsmax in 2017 the first few weeks I was here I remember them being quite tough trying to fit into a new environment Alex Jordan was on vacation at the time when I came And the first day that Alex Jordan walked through the door I remember feeling so much better because she came with a type of life and energy that I just not felt before and and And once once you are engulfed in that And I just remember that when she spoke about How you make someone feel and the importance of that I'll never forget that because in that moment Alex Jordan made me feel at home and I felt that way ever since Yeah, she really has a way with people and of course, you know I had to thank her for taking the time because she was so so busy during the cpl But we have to go now. We have to go to a break and when we come back interactive Yeah