BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Jermaine Blackwood has topped West Indies batting averages for a second straight tour, the only specialist Caribbean side batsman to emerge unscathed from the dismal two-Test series against the Black Caps.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, CMC – Argentina 1986 World Cup hero, Diego Maradona, a favorite of scores of Caribbean fans, died on Wednesday at his home, after suffering a heart attack. He was 60.

Jamaican Kevon Lambert scored his first goal of the season in a sterling performance as Phoenix Rising FC defeated hosts Reno 1868 FC in a penalty shootout to reach the Western Conference final of the United Soccer League on Saturday night.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad  – Fast bowling legend Sir Curtly Ambrose has questioned the “hunger” and desire shown by West Indies on the recent tour of New Zealand.

Rovman Powell says he has put his disappointing Caribbean Premier League campaign behind him and is firmly focused on scoring heavily against New Zealand and cementing his place in the West Indies side.

Forest Green Rovers’ head coach Mark Cooper has hailed striker Jamille Matt’s performances this season as “brilliant” after the Jamaican’s hat-trick powered the West Country outfit to a resounding 4-1 win at Scunthorpe in an English League Two match at the weekend.

Bermudian Flora Duffy has called it a year by announcing her withdrawal from next month’s Professional Triathletes Organization 2020 Middle Distance World Championships at Florida’s Daytona International Speedway.

Former Young Reggae Boy Jevani Brown bagged a fine hat-trick as Colchester United beat struggling Stevenage 3-1 at JobServe Community Stadium in an English League Two match on Tuesday night.

Lewis Hamilton equalled the legendary Michael Schumacher’s all time Formula One record of 91 wins when he captured the Eifel Grand Prix at Nürburgring.

MONACO,  CMC – Jamaica sprinter Elaine Thompson-Herah is one of five athletes shortlisted for the Female World Athlete of the Year award.

Dashing West Indies left-hander Nicholas Pooran lashed his second half-century of the Indian Premier League to fire Kings XI Punjab to a convincing five-wicket victory over Shimron Hetmyer’s Delhi Capitals on Tuesday.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Veteran West Indian all-rounder Dwayne Bravo became the first bowler in the history of Twenty20 cricket to take 500 wickets, when he dismissed Rahkeem Cornwall in a Caribbean Premier League (CPL) contest last month at Queen’s Park Oval.