FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida – Veteran all-rounder Paul Stirling is one of two Ireland players who have tested positive for COVID-19, and are likely to miss the opening matches of the four-match white-ball series against West Indies starting next month in Jamaica.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Experienced West Indies Women off-spinner Anisa Mohammed ended 2021 as the highest wicket-taker for the regional side in One Day Internationals (ODIs) but says she will be striving to do even better in 2022.

HAMILTON, Bermuda — Police say they have arrested a 24-year-old man in connection with the weekend murder of Bermuda national team footballer, Osagi Bascome.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The inaugural National Sports Academy has kicked off with two of the 12 disciplines it will eventually offer, as Guyana tries to develop world-class athletes.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Cricket West Indies has sacked men’s selection chief Roger Harper one month after the Caribbean side’s failed Twenty20 World Cup title defense, when squad selection proved a controversial issue.

KARACHI, Pakistan, CMC – Nicholas Pooran’s career-best fifty pushed West Indies to a 200-plus total for only the third time in three years but Mohammed Rizwan and captain Babar Azam registered equally destructive half-centuries of their own, as Pakistan pulled off a record run chase to make a clean sweep of the three-match Twenty20 International series here Thursday.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida – West Indies batsman Lendl Simmons smashed a century to catapult US All Stars into the final of the US Open Cricket T20 tournament, but then fell cheaply as Cavaliers 22 Yards lifted the title with an 11-run victory at the Central Broward Regional Park ground here on Monday.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Theodore ‘Tappa’ Whitmore has been replaced as head coach of the Reggae Boyz by another former player, Paul Hall, amid the team’s poor showing in the CONCACAF 2022 World Cup qualifiers.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Hot-shot striker Michail Antonio, who has been juggling duties between club and country this year and has scored twice in four appearances for the Reggae Boyz, says he hopes there are more goals to come in his international career.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Left-handed middle-order batsman Ackeem Auguste will lead the West Indies Rising Stars U19s 15-member squad for the upcoming International Cricket Council (ICC) U19 Men’s Cricket World Cup to be played in the West Indies next year.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – West Indies Women’s travel plans remained unclear Monday after the contingent arrived in the Gulf state of Oman from Zimbabwe, following the cancellation of the ICC World Cup Qualifiers in Zimbabwe last weekend.

HAMILTON, Bermuda – Bermudian Zeiko Lewis has beaten off competition from Trinidadian Leland Archer to be named Charleston Battery’s most valuable player for the 2021 United Soccer League Championship (USL) season, media here reported.