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ST JOHN’S, Antigua – West Indies have identified winning as their main priority ahead of the their three-match Twenty20 International series against Sri Lanka starting Wednesday, with captain Kieron Pollard pointing to recently recalled senior players as crucial to these plans.Selectors last week handed a shock recall to 39-year-old fast bowler Fidel Edwards who has not played a single international in nearly a decade, and also summoned 41-year-old opener Chris Gayle who has not featured for West Indies in almost two years.

James Harden had 23 points and 11 assists and Joe Harris scored 21 points as the Brooklyn Nets beat the host Los Angeles Lakers 109-98 on Thursday night.Kyrie Irving contributed 16 points and seven rebounds for the Nets, who captured their fifth consecutive victory. Reserve Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot scored 15 points while making 5 of 8 3-point attempts. Harris was 6 of 7 from 3-point range.Brooklyn’s Kevin Durant (hamstring) missed his third straight contest.

When the moment came, the ball that took the outside edge of Mehidy Hasan Miraz’s bat had only one destination. Rahkeem Cornwall pouched it at slip, having dived to his right, and remained on his haunches. It was Brett Lee/Andrew Flintoff in reverse. Mehidy the batsman stood quietly, the fielder who took the catch luxuriated on the ground.The West Indies players, led by a storming Jomel Warrican, headed towards deep third-man to celebrate. The one or two who remained near the pitch jumped on top of Cornwall in joy.It was the release of a lot of pent-up nerves from the last 30 minutes of play...

Jamaican Olympian Alia Atkinson opened her long- course season this past weekend in Plantation Florida, winning two gold and a silver medal at the Florida Gold Coast Senior qualifier.Swimming for South Florida Aquatics, the 32-year-old Atkinson, preparing for what will most likely be her final Olympic Games, this summer, won the 100-metre breaststroke in 1:12.18. She would also win the 50-metre backstroke in 31.66. She was second in the 50-metre freestyle, touching in 26.78.

Ezra Moseley was a man who used as few words about himself or his predicament in life as he used steps to the bowling crease. Ten running strides were all that were needed for the bantamweight Bajan to generate serious pace. Ezra tormented the best batsmen of his generation - he broke Graham Gooch’s hand at Port-of-Spain as England were on course for a Test victory.He nearly decapitated Jimmy Cook in a ‘rebel’ Test at Newlands, Cape Town, in 1982. The bantamweight punched so far above his weight, he was, according to Robin Smith, one of the game’s greatest players of fast bowling, “q...