MAN­CHES­TER, Eng­land – Man­ches­ter City for­ward Khadi­ja "Bun­ny" Shaw scored a rare beaver-trick to help her side thump As­ton Vil­la 6-1 and main­tain their lead at the top of the Women’s Su­per League (WSL) in Eng­land Sun­day (De­cem­ber 14).

Abu Dhabi - The Dubai Cap­i­tals with­stood a fe­ro­cious late as­sault from An­dre Rus­sell to clinch a tense nine-run vic­to­ry over the Abu Dhabi Knight Rid­ers at Za­yed Crick­et Sta­di­um in the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates (UAE) on Sat­ur­day, seal­ing their sec­ond win of the DP World ILT20 sea­son.

GEORGE­TOWN – A burst of youth­ful en­er­gy has de­scend­ed up­on Guyana’s shores as the Bar­ba­dos Un­der-13 crick­et team ar­rived on Fri­day, set­ting the stage for a thrilling five-match se­ries against their Guyanese coun­ter­parts.

WELLING­TON, New Zealand – A vis­i­bly frus­trat­ed West In­dies head coach Daren Sam­my dis­sect­ed an­oth­er dam­ag­ing col­lapse, la­belling his team’s nine-wick­et de­feat to New Zealand in the sec­ond Test as a case of “two steps back­wards.”

LON­DON – Eng­land de­liv­ered a com­mand­ing per­for­mance to de­feat a short-hand­ed Ja­maica 80-37 at the Cop­per Box Are­na in Eng­land on Sat­ur­day, mark­ing a strong start to their two-match se­ries.

There comes a point in life when you re­alise you’re not just los­ing time — you’re los­ing peo­ple.

LEICES­TER, Eng­land – Free agent for­ward Michail An­to­nio is in ad­vanced talks with Leices­ter City over a short-term deal, as the vet­er­an Reg­gae Boy for­ward aims to com­plete a re­mark­able re­turn to pro­fes­sion­al foot­ball near­ly a year af­ter a se­ri­ous car ac­ci­dent.

Shoot­ing Stars record­ed their sec­ond shutout of the Na­tion­al Pool League (NPL) 8 Ball Pre­mier Di­vi­sion com­pe­ti­tion on Wednes­day when they de­feat­ed UD As­sas­sins five games to ze­ro at the Up­per Deck Sports Bar in St James, Port-of-Spain.

WELLING­TON, New Zealand– Fast bowler Ja­cob Duffy ripped through the West In­dies’ frag­ile bat­ting line­up with a sec­ond con­sec­u­tive five-wick­et haul to bowl New Zealand to a com­pre­hen­sive nine-wick­et vic­to­ry in­side three days in the sec­ond Test on Fri­day.

WELLING­TON, New Zealand – West In­dies Test cap­tain, Ros­ton Chase has ex­pressed his dis­plea­sure with his side’s woe­ful bat­ting per­for­mance af­ter they slumped to a nine-wick­et de­feat against New Zealand in­side three days in the sec­ond Test on Fri­day.

WELLING­TON, New Zealand – De­spite New Zealand hav­ing the up­per hand af­ter day two of the sec­ond Test, West In­dies pac­er An­der­son Phillip still be­lieves his side can flip the script and push for a win.

WELLING­TON, New Zealand – Ja­cob Duffy and Michael Rae grabbed two late wick­ets to put New Zealand in firm con­trol of the sec­ond Test af­ter a coura­geous ef­fort by the West In­dies’ bowlers brought them back in­to con­tention on Thurs­day’s sec­ond day.