KINGSTON, Ja­maica – Ja­maica’s Min­is­ter of Sports Olivia Grange has re­vealed that the track at the Na­tion­al Sta­di­um has fi­nal­ly been cer­ti­fied by World Ath­let­ics, near­ly a year af­ter it was resur­faced.

Crick­et will make its long-await­ed re­turn to the Olympics af­ter 128 years, fea­tur­ing six-team men’s and women’s T20 com­pe­ti­tions in Los An­ge­les.

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.

LON­DON, Eng­land – West In­dies Women pro­duced a sub-par per­for­mance with both and ball to slump to an em­bar­rass­ing eight-wick­et de­feat to Aus­tralia Women in the first semi­fi­nal of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup on Tues­day.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.