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.

All-rounder An­dre Rus­sell will make his fi­nal in­ter­na­tion­al ap­pear­ance for the West In­dies on home soil when the team faces Aus­tralia in a T20 se­ries at Sabi­na Park on Ju­ly 20 and 22.

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.

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.

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.

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?”

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.

Bre­an­na Bel­mar of Mar­lins es­tab­lished a new record in the 13-14 girls 50m breast­stroke when the Na­tion­al Age Group Short Course Swim­ming Cham­pi­onships con­tin­ued at the Na­tion­al Aquat­ic Cen­tre in Bal­main, Cou­va on Sat­ur­day.

“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.

France-based Chloe Fras­er and Jerisse El­der picked up from where they left off in the T&T Ta­ble Ten­nis As­so­ci­a­tion Arawak-spon­sored Ju­nior Sil­ver Bowl Ta­ble Ten­nis Tour­na­ment a week ago, when they won the Se­nior Women's Dou­bles crown at the East­ern Re­gion­al In­door Sports Are­na in Tacarigua on Sat­ur­day.

The theme of the 60th an­niver­sary of the In­ter­na­tion­al Sport So­ci­ol­o­gy As­so­ci­a­tion (IS­SA) World Con­gress was ’60 Years of the So­ci­ol­o­gy of Sport: Past, Present, and Fu­ture Tra­jec­to­ries.’ The con­fer­ence took place at Seoul Na­tion­al Uni­ver­si­ty (SNU), South Ko­rea, from Ju­ly 8-11, 2025.

E-Z Lines, for the first time this sea­son, have a bit of day­light on sec­ond place af­ter a per­fect game ver­sus Bul­lz, win­ning 10-0 in A Di­vi­sion ac­tion when the Na­tion­al Mixed For­mat League of Darts con­tin­ued with match-day nine on Tues­day (Ju­ly 8).