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(ESPNcricinfo ) The Yuvraj Singh-Virat Kohli partnership didn’t have a happy ending in the World T20 final, but less than two weeks after that night in Mirpur, their association in Sharjah followed a different script yesterday.

By Marc Higginson BBC Sport Twenty years ago this week, West Indies batsman Brian Lara broke Sir Garfield Sobers’s 36-year-old world record for the highest score in a Test innings.

After a dismal showing by the national cricket team which ended the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Regional Four-day Tournament in last place with 29 points after losing five consecutive matches, Stabroek Sport asked the man-in-the-street what they thought of the team’s performance and the general state of cricket in Guyana.

LONDON,  CMC – Sussex captain Ed Joyce says Barbadian seamer Chris Jordan is ready for Test cricket and is pushing for him to be included in the England squad for July’s start of the India series.

Guyana’s Derrick ‘Dangerous’ Richmond lost via unanimous decision to Jamaican Tsetsi ‘ Lights Out’ Davis in the fifth bout of this season’s Wray and Nephew Caribbean Contender Series on Wednesday night in Jamaica.

The Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPF) has shortlisted an 11-member team to represent the nation at the eighth NAPF Caribbean Islands Powerlifting Championships in St Croix, US Virgin Islands.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazilian authorities unveiled an infrastructure budget of 24.1 billion reais ($10.76 billion) for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, 25 percent more than planned, as they try to reassure the world they can deliver facilities on time.

PRETORIA,  (Reuters) – The murder trial of Olympic and Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius was adjourned yesterday until May 5 after the state wrapped up three days of punishing cross-examination of a forensic expert brought by the defence.

(The Sports Xchange) – Highlights of Wednesday’s National Basketball Association games.

 (Reuters) – Rafa Nadal, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic demonstrated their superior class on clay as they eased into the quarter-finals of the Monte Carlo Masters yesterday.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC-The Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) is seeking compensation from former football executive Jack Warner for the Centre of Excellence in Trinidad which he claims to own.

Javed Rasheed’s 12-wicket match haul guided Everest Cricket Club (ECC) to a comprehensive victory over Muslim Youth Organisation (MYO) as the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) competition continued last weekend at the MYO ground.

Member of Parliament for Chaguanas West Jack Warner yesterday responded to newspaper reports that CONCACAF had taken legal action preventing him from selling the Centre of Excellence in Macoya.

Lusignan Cricket Club was crowned champions of the East Coast Cricket Board (ECCB) 2014 U15 competition after they defeated Ogle Cricket Club by 17 runs on Sunday.

The quarterfinal round of the first annual Grassroots Foundation inter-ward knockout football tournament continues today at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground Bourda with a doubleheader.

Coach, Sham Johnny is satisfied with the preparation of Team Guyana but noted there are some areas that needed to be improved ahead of this weekend’s CARIFTA Games in the French island of Martinique.

Success Masters and Floodlights defeated Industry Super Kings and Park Rangers respectively in the latest action of the Trophy Stall softball competition at the Demerara Cricket Club Ground last Saturday.

Pele FC scraped past Flamingo FC by a 3-2 margin in their first division matchup when the Georgetown Football Association league continued on Tuesday at the Tucville Community ground.

New Amsterdam United, led by a Kelvin Joseph six goal haul, dismantled Young Achievers by a 9-0 score line when the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) National Premier League concluded on Tuesday.

Regal Stationery and Computer Centre yesterday presented Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) with a 32” Daewoo Television.