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Kemar Roach is now immortal in West Indian cricket. The veteran seamer claimed his three hundredth Test wicket during an innings-and-two-hundred-and-seventeen-run demolition of Sri Lanka, one of the biggest wins in Caribbean history, putting West Indies up one-nil in the two-match series. A generational moment.
Shifting to the grass courts of SW nineteen, the Wimbledon prize money standoff is over. World number ones Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka, along with several other top names, had been restricting media duties to a symbolic fifteen minutes per day in protest. After what the players called constructive meetings with the All England Club, normal commitments resume from Monday. A truce, for now.
And then there is Ben Stokes, who shook the cricket world to its core. England's captain announced his retirement, and now we know why. Stokes says the emotional weight of England's Ashes collapse in Australia drained him completely, telling the world he simply has no more fight left. A heartbreaking end to one of the great modern Test careers.
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