PERTH, Aus­tralia – Cap­tain Kraigg Brath­waite said he was un­der no il­lu­sions about the mag­ni­tude of the chal­lenge fac­ing West In­dies on Sun­day’s fi­nal day of the open­ing Test but re­it­er­at­ed the need for a mea­sured ap­proach from his bats­men in or­der to avoid de­feat.

PERTH, Aus­tralia – Un­flap­pable cap­tain Kraigg Brath­waite sur­passed 5,000 Test runs with an 11th hun­dred in de­mand­ing cir­cum­stances, but West In­dies were still fac­ing a mon­u­men­tal chal­lenge to save the open­ing Test, head­ing in­to Sun­day’s fi­nal day at Perth Sta­di­um.

DO­HA, Qatar (AP) — Kylian Mbap­pé scored two goals and set up an­oth­er for Olivi­er Giroud, giv­ing France a 3-1 vic­to­ry over Poland and a spot in the World Cup quar­ter­fi­nals on Sun­day.

When we see the suc­cess of ath­letes like Shelly-Ann Fras­er-Pryce, or Us­ain Bolt, we can eas­i­ly imag­ine the years of com­mit­ted train­ing it took for them to achieve their lev­els of suc­cess.

Ger­many is fac­ing an­oth­er round of soul-search­ing af­ter be­ing elim­i­nat­ed from the sport’s most im­por­tant tour­na­ment at the first stage for the sec­ond time in a row.

AL WAKRAH, Qatar (AP) — This time, Luis Suarez cried on the side­lines af­ter Uruguay was elim­i­nat­ed from the World Cup de­spite a 2-0 win over Ghana on Fri­day.

A one-man team of Javon Charles, who is known pop­u­lar­ly as the 'Citys­lick­er97' will rep­re­sent T&T at the In­ter­na­tion­al Es­ports Fed­er­a­tion's 14th World Es­ports Cham­pi­onships in Bali, In­done­sia. The event start­ed yes­ter­day and will run un­til De­cem­ber 9.

DO­HA, Qatar (AP) — An­toine Griez­mann is rel­ish­ing his new role help­ing oth­ers at the World Cup rather than wor­ry­ing about scor­ing for France.

ABI DHABI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – Shim­ron Het­my­er pro­duced a match-win­ning knock as Samp Army chased down a tricky to­tal to beat Rov­man Pow­ell’s North­ern War­riors by five wick­ets, and se­cure their spot in the play­offs of the Abu Dhabi T10.

DO­HA, Qatar (AP) — Chris­t­ian Pulisic is on track to play for the Unit­ed States in its World Cup round of 16 match against the Nether­lands on Sat­ur­day,

LU­SAIL, Qatar (AP) — In­jured star Ney­mar will be at Lu­sail Sta­di­um Fri­day to watch Brazil's match against Cameroon at the World Cup.

AL RAYYAN, Qatar (AP) — South Ko­rea’s play­ers formed a cir­cle in the cen­tre of the field and trained their eyes on sev­er­al cell phones show­ing a near­by match that would de­cide their fu­ture at the World Cup.