KINGSTON, Jamaica – World champions Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson were conferred with Jamaican national honors for their sporting achievements on National Heroes Day.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Lawyers representing West Indies batsman, John Campbell, say the cricketer will make a decision soon on whether to appeal a four-year ban imposed by the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) for an anti-doping violation.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua – Hayley Matthews’s all-round enterprise went to waste as West Indies Women slid to a five-wicket defeat to New Zealand Women to fall behind in the five-match series.

HOBART, Australia – Ottis Gibson, one of the architects of West Indies’ Twenty20 World Cup in 2012, believes the Caribbean side may require a rethink of strategy in order to find success again in the shortest format.

MELBOURNE, Australia – Despite West Indies’ win in their first warm-up match ahead of the ICC Twenty20 World Cup which begins in just under a week, assistant coach Roddy Estwick says the squad still has some work to do.

HAMILTON, Bermuda – Bermuda have been awarded three points after Montserrat cancelled their CONCACAF Nations League Group B match here in June, the Royal Gazette said.

MELBOURNE, Australia – Two-time Twenty20 World Cup-winning captain, Daren Sammy, believes West Indies can produce “something special” at the latest edition of the tournament starting later this month.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua – Captain Hayley Matthews struck her sixth Twenty20 International half-century but that was the only highlight for hapless West Indies Women, as they slumped to a five-wicket defeat off the last delivery of the final T20I against New Zealand Women here Thursday.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Barbados Royals captain Kyle Mayers has hailed his side’s resilience while opposite number Rovman Powell says his Jamaica Tallawahs are champing at the bit, ahead of Friday’s Caribbean Premier League final.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – A West Indies Academy team and Combined Campuses and Colleges will contest this year’s Regional Super50 Cup, as part of eight teams set to do battle in the Cricket West Indies limited overs championship bowling off later this month.

GOLD COAST, Australia – Captain Nicholas Pooran said Tuesday West Indies had pushed the controversial omission of Shimron Hetmyer aside, in order to focus on the two-match Twenty20 International series against World champions Australia and their preparation for the T20 World Cup later this month.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Barbados Royals stormed into the final of the Caribbean Premier League, making a statement of intent with an 87-run drubbing of in-form Guyana Amazon Warriors in the first qualifier of the playoffs here Tuesday.