WELLING­TON, New Zealand – The BLACK­CAPS’ fortress has be­come a hos­pi­tal ward, and with the West In­dies ar­riv­ing in Welling­ton with re­newed be­lief, New Zealand’s se­lec­tion pan­el is scram­bling to as­sem­ble a fit XI for the sec­ond Test start­ing on Tues­day.

Joseph de Maistre: “Toute na­tion a le gou­verne­ment qu’elle mérite.” Eng­lish: “Every na­tion has the gov­ern­ment it de­serves.”

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand – All-rounder Justin Greaves has hailed Test crick­et as a “mas­sive step up” from the re­gion­al first-class cir­cuit, fol­low­ing a mon­u­men­tal match-sav­ing dou­ble cen­tu­ry that stunned New Zealand re­cent­ly.

LI­MA, Pe­ru – The crick­et fi­nals at the 2025 Bo­li­var­i­an Games in Li­ma, Pe­ru, de­liv­ered some high-oc­tane ac­tion as Bar­ba­dos and Ja­maica emerged vic­to­ri­ous to claim the cov­et­ed gold medals in the men’s and women’s com­pe­ti­tions, re­spec­tive­ly, at the Li­ma Po­lo club.

The dry sea­son in the Caribbean of­fers a great chance to en­joy out­door ac­tiv­i­ties like run­ning, cy­cling, walk­ing, and hik­ing, which are be­com­ing in­creas­ing­ly pop­u­lar recre­ation­al choic­es. En­gag­ing in these phys­i­cal ac­tiv­i­ties pro­vides var­i­ous health, men­tal, and so­cial ben­e­fits, mak­ing them ef­fec­tive, drug-free ways to sup­port a healthy lifestyle. Among these ac­tiv­i­ties, run­ning stands out as par­tic­u­lar­ly ac­ces­si­ble and ef­fec­tive as a vig­or­ous form of ex­er­cise with sci­en­tif­i­cal­ly proven ben­e­fits, es­pe­cial­ly in pre­vent­ing and man­ag­ing Non-Com­mu­ni­ca­ble Dis­eases (NCDs).

Alex Eke­sa’s bid for a record-ex­tend­ing fifth con­sec­u­tive Run Bar­ba­dos marathon ti­tle came to a dis­tress­ing con­clu­sion on Sun­day morn­ing, with the Kenyan forced to aban­don the race due to in­jury.

Justin Greaves called it a “spe­cial, spe­cial day” for him and the team as he and Ke­mar Roach helped West In­dies pull off an epic draw against New Zealand in the first Test at the Ha­gley Oval.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Pres­i­dent of Crick­et West In­dies (CWI), Dr Kishore Shal­low has main­tained that there is no in­ten­tion to fire West In­dies head coach Daren Sam­my, de­spite his los­ing record since tak­ing charge of all for­mats ear­li­er this year.

T&T crick­eters suf­fered their first loss at the Bo­li­var­i­an Games, when they went un­der to ri­vals Bar­ba­dos at the Li­ma Po­lo Club in Bas­ni Be­li­ma, Pe­ru Fri­day.

New­ly crowned Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) Pre­mier­ship Di­vi­sion cham­pi­on, Na­pari­ma Col­lege, moved one step clos­er to a his­toric tre­ble af­ter edg­ing St Au­gus­tine Sec­ondary 1-0 in semi­fi­nal one of the Co­ca Co­la Boys' In­ter­col on Fri­day at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Cou­va.

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand – West In­dies Test cap­tain, Ros­ton Chase has laud­ed his troops for their out­stand­ing per­for­mance which helped them earn a draw in the open­ing Test against New Zealand on Sat­ur­day.

CHRISTCHURCH – A fight­ing, un­beat­en cen­tu­ry from Shai Hope, cou­pled with Justin Greaves’ stel­lar half-cen­tu­ry, have put West In­dies in po­si­tion to push for an un­like­ly but pos­si­ble vic­to­ry against New Zealand head­ing in­to Fri­day’s fifth and fi­nal day of the open­ing Test in New Zealand.