The real deal
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC: WEST INDIES cricket coach Bennett King has his eyes on emerging Jamaican batting talent Xavier Marshall and has earmarked him as one of the players who can have a bright future in West Indies cricket.

Brian slips in rankings
LONDON, CMC: SOUTH AFRICAN Jacques Kallis, on the strength of his splendid hundred against England this week, has replaced West Indies captain Brian Lara as the world number two in the PricewaterhouseCoopers ranking for Test batsmen.

Captain Lara joins teammates in London
LONDON, CMC: WEST INDIES captain Brian Lara, a conspicuous no-show at Wednesday's press briefing in Barbados because of what a West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) release described as "unfinished personal business" in his homeland Trinidad & Tobago,...