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KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – Romel Currency and Tyrone Theophile stroked half-centuries to give Windward Islands the upper hand over Jamaica, in their fourth round, Regional Four-Day clash here yesterday.

DHAKA, Bangladesh,  CMC – West Indies captain Darren Sammy has hit back at criticism from India’s Suresh Raina that the Caribbean side are only capable of hitting sixes, and suffer from their inability to rotate the strike.

Provided they can turn their attention away from events in Bangladesh, and the encouraging warm-up results by both men’s and women’s teams in the World T20, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) directors were scheduled to discuss a vital issue at their meeting in Trinidad over the weekend.

Lennox Braithwaite defeated Ransford Goodluck last Sunday to win the Guyana NRA Record Shoot at the TImehri Rifle Ranges.

(Reuters) – Captain Brendon McCullum played one of the most important six-ball knocks of his career to lead New Zealand to a nine-run win over England via the Duckworth-Lewis method in a rain-marred World Twenty20 match yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Maiden first class centuries from Ashley Nurse and Carlos Brathwaite, followed by a devastating bowling performance from Barbados, combined to destroy Trinidad and Tobago on the second day of their fourth round encounter in the Regional Four-Day Championship here  yesterday.

The Georgetown Cricket Association’s (GCA) Annual General Meeting (AGM) will now take place on November 20.

Junior vice president of the  Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) Patrick Triumph last Monday spearheaded his team Blue Thunder `B’ to victory as the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) teams league  tournament continued at the National Gymnasium on Mandela Avenue.

(Reuters) – Lasith Malinga and Nuwan Kulasekara held their nerve in the death overs with miserly fast bowling as Sri Lanka beat South Africa by five runs in their World Twenty20 opener at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong today.

Mirpur, Bangladesh, (Reuters) – West Indies captain Darren Sammy laughed off Indian batsman Suresh Raina’s claim that the big-hitting Caribbean cricketers cannot rotate the strike and dared the Indians to stop his batsmen from hitting sixes in Sunday’s World Twenty20 match.

Assad Fudadin yesterday scored a half century but the Combined Campuses and Colleges (CCC) team had wrested control of the first day’s play of their day/night encounter against Guyana at the 3W’s Oval in Barbados.

SAVAR, Bangladesh, CMC – Deandra Dottin emphatically announced her return to international cricket with a scintillating unbeaten half-century as West Indies Women whipped Australia Women by 16 runs in their second and final warm-up game here yesterday.

MIRPUR, Bangladesh,  (Reuters) – India maintained their impeccable World Cup record against arch rivals Pakistan after Virat Kohli’s fluent 36 not out powered them to a seven-wicket victory in a group two super 10 stage match of the World Twenty20 yesterday.

(Reuters) – The Netherlands qualified for the World Twenty20 main draw following a dramatic six-wicket victory over Ireland in a run-feast featuring a record 30 sixes in Sylhet, Bangladesh yesterday.

(The Sports Xchange) — MVP candidate Kevin Durant finished with 35 points, 11 rebounds and six assists, leading the Oklahoma City Thunder to a 102-95 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers.

MIAMI,  (Reuters) – After a year’s absence, fifth seeded Roger Federer celebrated his return to the Miami hardcourts with a clinical 6-4 7-6(4) second round win over towering Ivo Karlovic yesterday.

The Windjammer Int. Cuisine and Comfort Inn and Sanjay’s Variety Store are the latest entities to support the Malta Supreme Hugh Ross Classic (HRC) Bodybuilding and Fitness Show.

The country’s Under 18 and under 20 athletes hopeful for places on  Guyana’s team to the 43rd CARIFTA Games in the French island of Martinique over the Easter weekend, will start their quest when the two-day national trials commences today at the Police Sports Club ground.

The cream of the nation’s cyclists will transform the roadways of Essequibo into their battleground when the third and final leg of the Cheddi Jagan Memorial road race pedals off tomorrow.

The Upper Corentyne Cricket Association (UCCA) in collaboration with the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) recently threw their weight behind the 2013 Berbice player-of-the-year award for the Under-15/17 levels by sponsoring respective trophies for the events.