MEN’S CRICKET: The West Indies are 1-0 down before tomorrow’s second leg of their five-match Twenty20 series against Australia at Sabina Park, Jamaica. 

Debutant Mitchell Owen hit six sixes on his way to 50 from 27 balls in Monday’s opening game as the Aussies chased down 189 for a three-wicket win with seven balls to spare. 

Paceman Ben Dwarshuis was the pick of the Australian bowling attack with 4-36.

MEN’S FOOTBALL: League of Ireland champions Shelbourne host Azerbaijan’s Qarabag in Dublin this evening for the first leg of their Champions League second qualifying round tie. 

In Oswestry the New Saints and Luxembourg’s Differdange 03 both get a second crack at European football when they meet in a Conference League second qualifying-round tie at Park Lane. 

TNS are ranked 171st in Europe, 110 places above Differdange.

SPEEDWAY: Max Fricke was in dominant form, top-scoring with 16+1 points as Leicester Lions edged out Sheffield Tigers 48-42 in the Premiership on Monday night. 

The Lions are now just two points behind third-placed Sheffield in the table but the Tigers have a match in hand. 

In the evening’s other fixture Maciej Janowski bagged 14 points as Oxford snatched a last heat victory to win 47-43 at Birmingham in the bottom-of-the table clash.

MEN’S BASKETBALL: Manchester and Bristol will both represent the Super League in next season’s European North Basketball League. 

Among the teams joining them in the six-month-long competition are defending champions CSO Voluntari from Romania, seven-time Austrian champions Hefte Heffen Bulls, Poland’s Dziki Warszawa and German Cup winners Mitteldeutscher. 

Last year’s runners-up Newcastle will not be taking part.