ST JOHN’S – West In­dies de­served­ly earned their first Test se­ries win over Sri Lan­ka in 23 years when the sec­ond Test pre­dictably end­ed in a tame draw here at the Sir Vi­vian Richards Sta­di­um in An­tigua on Tues­day.

​Let’s be hon­est: no­body likes be­ing rushed. We all pre­fer to take our time, even if we oc­ca­sion­al­ly get things wrong. When you rush de­ci­sions, more of­ten than not, you mess them up (and no, not Mes­si them up, ha! ha!). Half the time, rush­ing around just leaves us be­hav­ing like head­less chick­ens.

CAS­TRIES, St Lu­cia – The Saint Lu­cia Kings have locked in their over­seas fire­pow­er for the 2026 Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League sea­son, un­veil­ing a five-man in­ter­na­tion­al ros­ter that blends crafty spin, ex­plo­sive bat­ting, and all-round grit.

DUBAI, UAE – Pak­istan all-rounder Shadab Khan has been ap­point­ed cap­tain of the Desert Vipers for this month’s Exxon­Mo­bil Guyana Glob­al Su­per League, re­plac­ing the in­jured Chris Green.

CAS­TRIES, St Lu­cia - For­mer Trinidad and To­ba­go in­ter­na­tion­al Stern John has of­fi­cial­ly re­signed as head coach of the Saint Lu­cia se­nior men’s na­tion­al team, bring­ing an end to his three-and-a-half-year tenure at the helm.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua — Wrist spin­ner Vi­tel Lawes has earned his maid­en se­nior in­ter­na­tion­al call-up, head­lin­ing the 15-mem­ber Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) squad an­nounced on Tues­day­day for the open­ing three match­es of the up­com­ing five-match One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) se­ries against New Zealand in Guyana and Bar­ba­dos.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – Two of the world’s best fe­male sprint­ers, Shelly-Ann Fras­er-Pryce and Elaine Thomp­son-Her­ah, have praised for­mer coach Stephen Fran­cis for his role in shap­ing their ca­reers.

Ke­shawn Rod­ney pro­duced a com­mand­ing, un­de­feat­ed per­for­mance to cap­ture the Bil­liards Sports Or­gan­i­sa­tion of T&T’s (BSOTT) Na­tion­al 8-Ball Cham­pi­onship, which con­clud­ed on Sun­day af­ter three days of ex­cit­ing com­pe­ti­tion at the Pyra­mid Sports Bar in Gas­par­il­lo.

​I be­gin to­day’s col­umn on a sad note by ex­press­ing my sin­cer­est con­do­lences to the fam­i­ly, friends, col­leagues, ath­letes, and all of Ja­maica at the pass­ing of the leg­endary, pi­o­neer­ing, and vi­sion­ary track and field coach, Stephen Fran­cis.

Trinida­di­an left-arm spin­ner Akeal Ho­sein is set to rep­re­sent Aus­tralian out­fit Perth Scorchers in the Guyana Su­per League (GSL) lat­er this month.

CAS­TRIES, Saint Lu­cia – Saint Lu­cia’s Olympic cham­pi­on Julien Al­fred will not com­pete in the up­com­ing Com­mon­wealth Games or Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean Games (CAC).

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua– Justin Greaves de­fied Sri Lan­ka’s bowl­ing at­tack for over eight hours to leave the sec­ond Test like­ly to end in a draw head­ing in­to Tues­day’s fi­nal day.