ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – An­oth­er dis­mal bat­ting per­for­mance by a West In­dies Se­lect XI has left Sri Lan­ka on the verge of com­plet­ing vic­to­ry in their four-day warmup match at Coolidge Crick­et Ground at the end of the penul­ti­mate day on Sat­ur­day.

There is no short­age of in­ter­na­tion­al cognoscen­ti of­fer­ing World Cup analy­sis for tour­na­ment fol­low­ers to wade through so you do not need mine. I will state the ob­vi­ous, though - 2026 is the most com­mer­cial­ized, mon­e­tized and politi­cized World Cup ever. If you are lucky, you have ac­cess to a paid stream­ing ser­vice, a visa to en­ter one of the host coun­tries, or a high priced tick­et to watch a match live. If not, FI­FA has adopt­ed a Pon­tius Pi­late stance and washed its hands of you and your prob­lems. FI­FA claims “foot­ball unites the world and brings peo­ple to­geth­er to cel­e­brate the beau­ti­ful game”. But in 2026, World Cup foot­ball - which should be freely avail­able to or­di­nary work­ing peo­ple via pub­lic tele­vi­sion, easy en­try in­to host coun­tries and rea­son­ably priced tick­ets - is now a com­mod­i­ty with re­strict­ed ac­cess.

LEEDS, Eng­land – West In­dies Women dug deep to snatch vic­to­ry from the jaws of de­feat against Scot­land Women and im­prove their chances of se­cur­ing a semi­fi­nal berth in the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup with a thrilling sev­en-run vic­to­ry on Thurs­day.

​The let­ter “A” has be­come syn­ony­mous with suc­cess and pro­gres­sion over the last few weeks–even more so than be­fore.

HEAD­IN­G­LEY, Leeds — West In­dies head coach Shane Deitz has is­sued a stark warn­ing to his play­ers ahead of their cru­cial ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 clash against Scot­land on Thurs­day: com­pla­cen­cy will not be tol­er­at­ed.

Dubai, UAE – Desert Vipers head coach Azhar Mah­mood has is­sued a de­fi­ant ral­ly­ing cry, in­sist­ing his side can con­quer the Exxon­Mo­bil Guyana Glob­al Su­per League even af­ter be­ing dealt a ma­jor blow with the loss of cap­tain Chris Green.

GROS ISLET, St. Lu­cia – In a move set to blend the worlds of elite foot­ball and Caribbean lux­u­ry, the Saint Lu­cia Tourism Au­thor­i­ty (SL­TA) has of­fi­cial­ly an­nounced a new, mul­ti-year glob­al part­ner­ship with Ar­se­nal Foot­ball Club, mak­ing the is­land the club’s of­fi­cial des­ti­na­tion part­ner.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Pres­i­dent of Crick­et West In­dies (CWI), Dr Kishore Shal­low and Ja­maica’s Min­is­ter of Cul­ture, Gen­der, En­ter­tain­ment and Sport, Olivia Grange, met re­cent­ly to dis­cuss a range of ini­tia­tives aimed at strength­en­ing crick­et in Ja­maica and con­tribut­ing to the growth of crick­et in the re­gion.

The dou­bles pair of teenag­er Jor­dane Dook­ie and vet­er­an An­neliese Rose de­feat­ed Ja­maica’s Ki­na Gra­ham and Kather­ine Gibbs in straight set to se­cure a 2-1 win in their open­ing match in Group B when the Amer­i­c­as Group Three Bil­lie Jean King Cup served off at the Fed­era­cion Sal­vadore­na de Te­nis in San Sal­vador, El Sal­vador, Monday (June 15).

KINGSTON – Shamar Joseph’s five-wick­et haul, cou­pled with some ex­tra­or­di­nary pow­er hit­ting by Ja­son Hold­er, en­sured West In­dies se­cured a se­ries-win­ning five-wick­et vic­to­ry over Sri Lan­ka in the third and fi­nal T20I in Ja­maica on Sun­day.

A lack of fi­nan­cial sup­port has been giv­en as the key rea­son for the with­draw­al of Ath­let­ic Club Port-of-Spain (AC PoS) from the 2026 T&T Women’s League Foot­ball (WoLF).

The di­choto­my of con­trol. ​A cou­ple of days ago, a "thought of the day" came across my time­line. It was a quote from the Sto­ic philoso­pher Epicte­tus. It jumped out at me be­cause of some­thing FI­FA pres­i­dent Gi­an­ni In­fan­ti­no said in an­swer to a ques­tion.