BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – West In­dies pro­duced a hero­ic bowl­ing per­for­mance but were de­fied by a cap­tain’s knock by Mitchell Sant­ner to fall to a heart­break­ing one-wick­et de­feat to New Zealand in the fourth One Day In­ter­na­tion­al on Sun­day.

Garfield St Aubrun Sobers (Sir) is ranked amongst the great­est of West In­di­ans, com­pa­ra­ble to Tou­s­saint L’Ou­ver­ture—who turned back Napoleon’s army, Frank Wor­rell, he un­der­stood the strength of a unit­ed WI team, CLR James, con­sid­ered one of the most sig­nif­i­cant in­tel­lec­tu­als of the 20th Cen­tu­ry, and in lit­er­a­ture and the arts, Sobers takes his place along­side our great No­bel Lau­re­ates, West In­di­an writ­ers, Vidya Naipaul and Derek Wal­cott.

Every World Cup we have ever wit­nessed leaves be­hind mo­ments that be­come part of foot­ball his­to­ry. All the goals, the con­tro­ver­sies, the he­roes, and the heart­breaks.

Cen­turies by Azan Awais and skip­per Babar Azam led a dom­i­nant bat­ting dis­play by Pak­istan against a West In­dies Se­lect XI at the halfway stage of their four-day warmup match at the Queen's Park Oval in Port-of-Spain on Sun­day.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos — West In­dies cap­tain Shai Hope is hop­ing that the death of the leg­endary Sir Garfield Sobers in­spires his troops to vic­to­ry in their One Day In­ter­na­tion­al se­ries against New Zealand.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Bar­ba­dos de­fend­ed their CWI Ris­ing Stars Men’s Un­der-19 50-over Cham­pi­onship ti­tle in em­phat­ic fash­ion by de­feat­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go in the fourth and penul­ti­mate round on Sat­ur­day.

If you fol­low glob­al foot­ball, you would have seen some of it com­ing, some not. I re­fer to the un­fold­ing of the cur­rent World Cup. Af­ter weeks of com­pe­ti­tion (this is writ­ten af­ter the semi­fi­nal match­es), we had un­fore­seen de­vel­op­ments like “the Ba­lo­gun af­fair”.

GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana—West In­dies bat­ting coach Floyd Reifer is con­fi­dent that the re­gion­al side will put up a much-im­proved bat­ting show­ing against New Zealand in the re­main­ing two One Day In­ter­na­tion­als at Kens­ing­ton Oval.

Akim Bushe of BIG South East Port-of-Spain (BIG SE­PoS) club has been ap­point­ed cap­tain of T&T's 12-mem­ber se­nior men's vol­ley­ball team, which de­parts Fri­day (Ju­ly 17) from 3 pm for Willem­stad, Cu­ra­cao, to con­test the in­au­gur­al Caribbean Zon­al Vol­ley­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (CA­ZO­VA) Men’s Fi­nal-Four Cham­pi­onship at the Sala Er­rol Rooi Sen­tro De­porti­vo Ko­r­soul in Brie­ven­gat.

To­bag­on­ian Make­da Bain was the lone play­er to cap­ture three ti­tles when the cur­tain came down on the Sagi­cor Ju­nior Ten­nis Tour­na­ment at the Na­tion­al Rac­quet Cen­tre in Tacarigua, Thurs­day (Ju­ly 16).

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos—The crick­et­ing fra­ter­ni­ty has been thrown in­to mourn­ing fol­low­ing the death of Bar­ba­dos’ Na­tion­al Hero, Sir Gar­ry Sobers on Fri­day.

Roy­alians Rug­by Foot­ball Club got a dou­ble try from At­i­ba Rod­ney that steered them to a nar­row 25-24 tri­umph over Har­vard in the Trinidad and To­ba­go Rug­by Foot­ball Union (TTR­FU) League on Sat­ur­day at Har­vard Pitch of the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain.