ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – West In­dies head coach Daren Sam­my has main­tained that bat­ting coach Floyd Reifer’s ex­per­tise and ded­i­ca­tion is one of the main rea­sons be­hind the team’s bat­ting im­prove­ments.

Speak­ing at the pre-match press con­fer­ence ahead of the cru­cial knock­out clash, Matthews ex­ud­ed con­fi­dence de­spite fac­ing the world’s num­ber one-ranked side, who en­ter the semi­fi­nal in for­mi­da­ble form af­ter brush­ing aside In­dia in their fi­nal group match.

Pol­i­tics and cor­po­rate mus­cle are an in­eluctable re­al­i­ty of com­mer­cialised mod­ern sports.

ST. JOHN’S, An­tigua — Ke­mar Roach etched his name along­side West In­di­an pace roy­al­ty, claim­ing his 300th Test wick­et as a ram­pant re­gion­al pace at­tack blew Sri Lan­ka away for just 101 to seal a mon­u­men­tal in­nings-and-217-run vic­to­ry in­side four days at Sir Vi­vian Richards Sta­di­um in North Sound, An­tigua and Bar­bu­da on Sun­day.

Roach, the en­dur­ing work­horse of the West In­dies pace at­tack for over a decade, reached the cov­et­ed mile­stone to join an elite pan­theon of bowl­ing roy­al­ty: Sir Curt­ly Am­brose, Court­ney Walsh, Mal­colm Mar­shall, and Lance Gibbs.

On be­half of the man­age­ment com­mit­tee and mem­bers of Queen’s Park Crick­et Club (QPCC) and its wider fam­i­ly, we wish to ex­press our deep­est con­do­lences on the pass­ing of for­mer West In­dies crick­eter Char­lie Davis at the age of 82.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Amir Jan­goo and cap­tain Ros­ton Chase pro­duced a bat­ting dis­play for the ages to put West In­dies in a strong po­si­tion to push for vic­to­ry against Sri Lan­ka at the end of play on the third day of the open­ing Test on Sat­ur­day.

BRIS­TOL, Eng­land – West In­dies Women have qual­i­fied for their sec­ond suc­ces­sive semi­fi­nal at the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup.

Trinidad and To­ba­go-born small for­ward Malique Lewis was se­lect­ed by the Wash­ing­ton Wiz­ards with pick num­ber 30 (60th over­all) of the sec­ond round of the 2026 NBA Draft at Bar­clays Cen­tre in Brook­lyn, New York, on Wednes­day night. Hav­ing been se­lect­ed by Wash­ing­ton, Lewis was then trad­ed im­me­di­ate­ly to the Mil­wau­kee Bucks.

Busi­ness ex­ec­u­tive and crick­et ad­min­is­tra­tor Arun Vit­ta­la has tak­en mas­ters crick­et to the next lev­el in the Unit­ed States and to a point now where it is well-or­gan­ised and well-re­spect­ed.

I must con­fess, the 2026 FI­FA World Cup has so far gone pre­cise­ly ac­cord­ing to plan, with on­ly a few mi­nor hic­cups to re­port. Yes, there has been a jus­ti­fi­able cho­rus of com­plaints re­gard­ing ex­tor­tion­ate tick­et prices, re­stric­tive visa process­es, and those ut­ter­ly non­sen­si­cal hy­dra­tion breaks that seem ex­plic­it­ly de­signed to quench the thirst of cor­po­rate spon­sors rather than the ac­tu­al play­ers. How­ev­er, I am count­ing my lucky stars as I was able to se­cure rea­son­ably priced tick­ets to at­tend this buck­et-list event.

ST. JOHN’S, An­tigua – Dhanan­jaya de Sil­va pro­duced a cap­tain’s knock of 120 runs from 168 de­liv­er­ies as Sri Lan­ka re­cov­ered from a dis­as­trous start to post 308 all out on an event­ful open­ing day of the first Test against West In­dies at the Sir Vi­vian Richards Sta­di­um, on Thurs­day.