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DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – West Indies Women’s captain Merissa Aguilleira says winning the Twenty20 World Cup would help her side put their miserable tour of New Zealand behind them.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – Mystery off-spinner Sunil Narine knows he is a marked man but has no plans on backing down from any challenge thrown at him in the Twenty20 World Cup For the last three years, he has tormented batsmen across the globe and he arrives here ranked as the number one bowler in the T20 format.

The junior selection committee of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) under the chairmanship of Leslie Solomon has named a strong 22-man squad for the upcoming Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Under-15 Inter-county tournament.

DHAKA, Bangladesh,  CMC – Captain Darren Sammy has reiterated West Indies are not a one-man team, and that it will take a team effort to successfully defend their title in the Twenty20 World Cup.

CAVE HILL, Barbados, CMC – Their opponents’ conservative tactics and a defiant half-century from Kyle Corbin helped Combined Campuses and Colleges earn a draw against Barbados in the Regional Four-Day Championship here yesterday.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia captain Michael Clarke batted with a broken shoulder on the recent tour of South Africa and has been advised to rest, ruling him out of the domestic first class final later this week, Cricket Australia said yesterday.

St. Stanislaus College defeated arch-rivals Queen’s College 3-0 to clinch the u-18 title when the Business School teams table tennis tournament continued Sunday at the National Gymnasium on Mandela Avenue.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago predictably trounced the Leeward Islands, easily pulling off an innings and 107-run victory in the Regional Four-Day Championship here yesterday.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka stalwarts Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene have announced they will retire from international Twenty20 cricket after the World Twenty20 tournament in Bangladesh.

(The Sports Xchange) -Ray Allen came off the bench to score 14 of his 25 points in the fourth quarter where Miami closed the game on a 15-2 run to beat Houston 113-104 and break out of their malaise.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Jonathan Trott’s assertion that mental and physical fatigue had forced him home from England’s Ashes tour of Australia rather than depression felt like a “con” and would only convince his team mates he had abandoned them, according to former England captain Michael Vaughan.

(Reuters) – Ireland survived an inspired spell of swing bowling from Zimbabwe’s Tinashe Panyangara to scrape through for a three-wicket win on the last ball of their Group B encounter in Sylhet yesterday.

(Reuters) – Netherlands cricketer Tim Gruijters has accused team management of cheating by forcing him out on medical grounds so they could bring in Tom Cooper as a last-minute replacement for the World Twenty20 in Bangladesh.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – England captain Stuart Broad is confident he will play a “full part” in his side’s World Twenty20 campaign in Bangladesh despite suffering from a knee injury.

National rugby player, Theodore Henry rolled back the clock and put on a vintage performance, recording three of the five tries in Caribs’ 31-12 romp of the UG Wolves.

Veerasammy Permaul’s career best 10-wicket haul was not enough to secure a win for Guyana who were left to settle for a draw after being 38 runs away from victory with three wickets in hand when bad light stopped play their game against the Windward Islands in yesterday’s third round of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Regional 4-day match played at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence.

Gavin Lewis emerged as the new men’s singles champion after winning all of his round robin group matches as the Assuria Invitational top four tournament organized by the Guyana Tennis Association ended Thursday night at the Le Ressouvenir Tennis Club.

Mae’s A clinched the U13 title, defeating Mae’s B in the final by a 3-0 score line when the Business School Team table tennis tournament commenced Saturday at the National Gymnasium on Mandela Avenue.

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) has confirmed the inclusion of skipper Leon Johnson and middle-order batsman Chandarpaul Hemraj in the four-day team for the upcoming remaining rounds of the ongoing West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) 4-day tournament.

Alisha Fortune failed to finish in the women’s 200m and boxers, Theresa London and Dennis Thomas lost their respective bouts as Guyana’s mediocre showing at the ongoing South American Games continued on Saturday.