PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Repair works will begin soon at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in preparation for the country hosting the Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) in August.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Next year’s West Indies Championship will again be contested over five rounds, starting February 1, and only Antigua, Grenada, and Trinidad will stage matches, Cricket West Indies announced on Saturday.

DUBAI – West Indies captain Hayley Matthews has closed in on top spot in the MRF Tyres ICC Women’s T20I Player Rankings for all-rounders and has also made a big jump in the bowling rankings.

TULSA, Oklahoma – Haiti Under-20 international Watz Leazard has signed with FC Tulsa for the new United Soccer League Championship season which gets underway in March.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Reggae Girlz striker Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw has been listed among the world’s top 100 female footballers in 2022 by British media outlet The Guardian.

MONACO – Barbadian Zane Maloney, who notched up three successive feature race wins to take Formula 3 by storm this year, has been named Rookie of the Year.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Sportswear giant Adidas is now the official supplier of kits for Jamaica’s national teams with the January 1 start of a four-year deal, the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) has announced.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Head coach of the Cricket West Indies (CWI) Academy program Andre Coley has been reassigned as interim coach of the men’s team for two upcoming tours but assistant coaches Roddy Estwick and Monty Desai will not have their contracts renewed, CWI announced on Wednesday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – West Indies Women again failed to inspire confidence when off-spinner Charlie Dean produced a career-best effort, and England clinched a 17-run win in the third Twenty20 International on Saturday to take an unbeatable 3-0 lead in the five-match series.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirate – West Indies wicketkeeper-batsman Shai Hope is among an impressive four-player shortlist for the ICC Men’s One-day International Player-of-the-Year 2022 award.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – West Indies fast bowler Jayden Seales will be unavailable for selection for any cricket until about April next year as he recovers from surgery to correct a left knee injury, Red Force coach David Furlonge confirmed on Tuesday.

LONDON, UK – Jamaican eight-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at BBC Sports Personality of the Year ceremony next week.