ST JOHN’S, An­tigua — Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) pres­i­dent Dr Kishore Shal­low is ful­ly sup­port­ing West In­dies Head Coach Daren Sam­my amid the calls for his re­moval by for­mer play­ers af­ter the Test se­ries against Aus­tralia end­ed in em­bar­rass­ing fash­ion for the home side on Mon­day, with them be­ing bun­dled out for 27 runs in the sec­ond in­nings at Sabi­na Park, los­ing by a mam­moth 176 runs and record­ing the sec­ond-low­est score in the his­to­ry of Test crick­et.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – West In­dies Test cap­tain Ros­ton Chase has char­ac­terised the West In­dies’ hu­mil­i­at­ing bat­ting per­for­mance, which saw them bun­dled out for just 27 in the sec­ond in­nings in the third and fi­nal Test match against Aus­tralia on Mon­day as “heart­break­ing”.

BAS­SETERRE, St. Kitts – USA-1 in­stalled them­selves as heavy favourites to cap­ture the 2025 Ris­ing Stars Men’s 50-over Cham­pi­onship by thrash­ing de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Bar­ba­dos in a clash of un­beat­en teams on Tues­day.

Trinidad and To­ba­go is ex­pect­ed to field 75 ath­letes at the sec­ond edi­tion of the Ju­nior (Un­der 23) Pan Amer­i­can Jr Games in Asun­cion, Paraguay, from Au­gust 9 to 23. T&T’s Chief-de-Mis­sion of the Games, Jariel Mc Collins, says the lo­cal com­peti­tors par­tic­i­pate in 13 sport­ing dis­ci­plines – Archery, Ath­let­ics, Aquat­ics, Bad­minton, Cy­cling, Golf, Ta­ble ten­nis, Ten­nis, Triathlon, Sail­ing, Bas­ket­ball, Rug­by and Hock­ey.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – Mitchell Starc marked his cen­ten­ni­al Test match with a mes­meris­ing six-wick­et haul as Aus­tralia closed out their three-match se­ries against West In­dies in his­toric fash­ion on Mon­day.

DUBAI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – Hay­ley Matthews copped yet an­oth­er award in her al­ready glit­ter­ing ca­reer when she took home the ICC’s Women’s Play­er of the Month award for the month of June.

Bar­ry Kahn in a www.frontof­fice­s­ports.com in­ter­view in its Sun­day (Ju­ly 13) edi­tion said: “I think the ques­tion is, how do you take some­thing that has his­tor­i­cal­ly re­al­ly been an am­a­teur or par­tic­i­pa­to­ry sport and turn it in­to an en­ter­tain­ment prop­er­ty?”

KINGSTON – Fast bowlers Shamar Joseph and Jay­den Seales, along with pac­er Justin Greaves bowled West In­dies in­to a po­si­tion of au­thor­i­ty against Aus­tralia at the end of the open­ing day of the third day/night Test at Sabi­na Park in Ja­maica on Sat­ur­day.

Or­gans and Peace and Love Re­loaded, both kicked off the de­fence of their re­spec­tive Open and Over-45 Di­vi­sion ti­tles in the Ty­ro Sports Club Open Di­vi­sion and Over-45 Di­vi­sion Sev­en-A-Side Foot­ball with wins at the Ato Boldon Ground, Low­er San­ta Cruz.

Host T&T were crowned the first cham­pi­ons of the Caribbean Zon­al Vol­ley­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (CA­ZO­VA) Un­der-23 Men’s Cham­pi­onship host­ed by the T&T Vol­ley­ball Fed­er­a­tion (TTVF) at the Mal­oney In­door Sports Are­na Sun­day.

It ap­pears that the T&T foot­ball team will en­ter the fi­nal round of the World Cup Qual­i­fiers as the ‘So­ca War­riors’ af­ter all.

“It’s a point­less com­pe­ti­tion. Who­ev­er wins it will be the worst win­ner of all time be­cause they’ll have played all sum­mer and then gone straight back in­to the league.” So said Ju­r­gen Klopp about the in­au­gur­al Club World Cup in June.