 Right, so it's now time for Interactive. Remember to download the Sportsmax app from the Google Play or the App Store and watch premium sports action including the WTA, Brisbane International and the third test between Australia and Pakistan from Sydney. Also, be sure to check out our clips on X, Instagram and YouTube. Alright, so just here to give you an update on La Liga, Barcelona was able to come from behind to defeat Las Palmas, 2-1 and Lance Whitaker was so happy about it. So let's check out that winning goal. Do we have the highlights? And then we can hear from Lance. Alright, so we just have that winning goal. Lance. So they came from behind. They went behind after just 12 minutes and the former Manchester City, German is about to do what he does best, stitch the net. Barcelona with a 2-1 victory coming from behind and this signals end of round 19. There are 7 points off of the lead Barcelona in third and at the moment we're looking at a 38 game season. 19 rounds gone. No, of course not. We know that Girona and Real Madrid are setting the pace but there's too much football left for us to suggest that this is a 2-horse race. I know Barcelona has been inconsistent which is the point Brent has made and the point that Juan made earlier on today so it's hard to bank on Barcelona being strong to the back end of the season but I think they are good enough to improve and I think there's a lot of football left in this La Liga season. I know you're happy because you made the comment Lance and I agree with you that it's too much football for it to just be a 2-horse race from here. There are quality teams despite the team struggling and we expect that coming to the end of a season or midway. Injuries are something we were talking about with La Liga from the top of the season because some of the players didn't even start the season, they fell in during the season so for me I'm happy to see Barcelona coming back to some sort of form and I'm hoping that they can continue along this path. Yeah also in the last hour news coming through from Trinidad and Tobago that Angus Yves has had his contract as a national coach renewed and extended to I think December 2025 so good on you mate. Yeah really happy Angus Yves of course a friend of the Sportsmax and he's been doing some really good things with Trinidad and Tobago football. So we're going to continue now and we're going to head to YouTube to take some comments on Wednesday's segment discussing the changes made by Cricket-Westernies to their backroom stuff. All right so Iceman says yet another example of the coherent and joined up thinking of the Windy's Cricket board not this board this try no not this board strides confidently from one calamity to another. So Denoki says Lance how can one blame the selectors for the World Cup qualifiers debacle the back home. June says there is a God fix it fix it. Grugu they found the wrong Haynes it should have been Desmond Haynes. Lance. Yeah a lot of comments coming through that represented just a few of them. The thing is when we mentioned about the World Cup qualifying failure I put that question to Reds because he was suggesting that based on series results and how the team performed during 2023 that Roland Butcher's non-renewal of his contract was a little hard to digest that was the point Reds was making. So I was from a journalistic standpoint saying that you know if you're going to judge the team's successes by what the selectors did then if the team fails then you know the selectors would have to take some responsibility as well. But I quite agree with that comment on YouTube. I and I've said it many times on the show West Indies failures for me have not been due to selection issues. No you said that you said it yesterday actually. I say it all the time. I'm not saying that selectors are perfect and sometimes they don't make decisions that are hard to accept. But generally speaking West Indies cricket failures over the past two or three decades in no way shape or form for me has been due to selection issues. Yeah. All right. It's the performance of the team and the players. Yeah. And it's for me whenever I am coming up to some sort of conclusion lands I could never separate one thing from the other. For me it's always a combination of factors because all of these things work together for of course you know that one performance of these performances. So I can't just take everything apart and say OK the selectors are only responsible because OK you can select a team. But when the players go out to play coaching has a part of it. And sometimes when I get these comments I try to get annoyed at them because we're on air and of course we're trying to give a sensible view. But some of the viewers when they send these messages they don't think about all the different parts. Yeah. And it's good that we spoke with Anthony Dianne right earlier on today from Ghana because he was talking to us about the infrastructure that is in place in in Ghana. But there's no question that one of the biggest problems in West Indies cricket is the infrastructure both with facilities and programs to develop young players because that is part of the issue that that sets some of the Australians and Indians apart from from the West Indies. There is just not enough proper infrastructure and and money to invest in development tools for cricketers. So the West Indies at the moment are in many ways behind the eight ball. And a lot of it has to do with money and the inability of not only cricket West Indies but the territorial board to pump and the governments to pump the amount of resources financially necessary to develop players and the West Indies can look at that issue as part just part of the reason because I'm agreeing with you that it's not one issue that has West Indies cricket where it is now but certainly resources and a lack of money and infrastructure would would would rank as part of the issues holding back West Indies cricket. Yeah. And I'm glad you brought that up because even when I asked him the question he spoke about getting an analyst and database and all these things countries powerhouses they usually those things are natural for them. They're accustomed to having all these resources for the course at their disposal. So you know we're just making the best with what we have around the Caribbean. Well so with cricket what a fan saying about India's historic win over South Africa in Cape Town. The match was as a shortest ever to produce a result in test cricket history. Let's head across to X now. We have Jay. He says heroes without Cape in town. Congrats for this win. India versus South Africa. And then Cape Town. Hashtag Cape Town. Jay is a comedian. Yeah. All right. Kirkette brilliant performance by the Indian team. Fire. DK says and this is Dinesh Kartik. This match had so much in so little time to bat in a bowler's paradise is a big test. Some great bowling performances and a brave knock from Macron on such a tricky pitch. Would have loved to see another test in this intense series for a decider. Irfan Patan says undefeated tour of South Africa for team India. What something victories is special. What about Zagham. Records are made to be broken. India versus South Africa. Well that was some tough stuff. Yeah. Well another thing that I'm on record is saying is that I have a very high regard for India. They're number one in world cricket at the moment in all formats. ODI T 20 and test cricket as well. And I thought when they lost the first test against the South Africans that I was confident that they would win the second because I have enlightened India's cricketing talent at the moment to West Indies in its strong years. There is no cricket team in the history of world cricket that has been as dominant as the West Indies were under Clive Lloyd and Viv Richards. That's a fact. Yeah. But it is very evident that the proliferation of quality cricketers coming out of India in the past decade resembles the kind of factory like productivity that the West Indies were able to produce in our glory days. And I say that to say when they lost the first test I said you know what these South Africans just woke up the Indians when the second test comes around the Indians will win. And they did a bit of a struggle because it wasn't an easy pitch to bat on. But India's cricket talent at the moment is is so explosive and deserves a lot of respect. Let's let's see what happens in their next assignments. Yeah. I understand because you know one of the things with me is like based on India's factory like production of players. Sometimes it annoys me because I'm like why can't we do that. Why as soon as one goes why can't another one just be born. And then we have another star and we keep generating them like that. Part of the reason is cricket to the Caribbean is not now what it was 40 years ago. And the average teenager in Jamaica and the Caribbean now not as gong ho about cricket as we would have found in the Caribbean in the sixties and seventies. And that's one of the main reasons why the the passion isn't there for cricket in the way that it was before. And we're reaping the backlash. Yeah. Because I'm thinking you better not say rewards or none of that. So choose your words. I have to. Yeah. All right. So producers letting me know that Dean Algar retired. Yeah. This was his last test. He announced this from before and he was the player of the series. He had a hundred in the first test I think a big hundred. Daddy hundred. Yeah. Now Lance is going to use that to a lot. Yeah. I think one hundred and eighty five. So he has left on a good note. Except the fact that they lost the last. Yeah. In two days it's the record shortest test match with a result in the history of the game. But Elgar is a is a solid solid solid player. So he's finished with test cricket. Right. And we're getting ready to leave all viewers. They're going to see that final match by David Warner. You know some of the good good players the ones that we love to watch are leaving us. But like India that continues to produce talent I'm hoping that the other teams can do the same. So do we leave them now so they get ready for that. Yeah. All right viewers well thank you so much for tuning in. We'll be back tomorrow same time same place and we're leaving you with a treat. Hope you enjoy this match.