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CARDIFF, Wales, CMC – West Indies have been fined for maintaining a slow over-rate during their rain affected Group B match against South Africa in the Champions Trophy here yesterday.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – David Warner is lucky to be available for Ashes selection and the batsman’s attack on England’s Joe Root was “despicable”, according to Australian cricket board chief James Sutherland.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Six batsmen made ducks as visiting Lancashire bowled Essex out for 20 in a second division game at Chelmsford yesterday, their lowest score in a first-class fixture.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC- Jamaica is proceeding with plans to introduce a National Insurance and Retirement Benefits Plan for athletes The plan is expected to provide basic health coverage for all qualified national athletes, who represent Jamaica or have attained the specified professional level in their various sporting disciplines.

After weeks of speculations and hundreds of suggestions via social media, the much-anticipated Caribbean Premier League franchise team names have been announced and their logos revealed.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC-Assistant coach of the Trinidad and Tobago franchise David Williams is predicting victory for his outfit in the first ever Caribbean Premier League (CPL) which begins next month.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Losing the first match of a tournament is terrible, said Brazil coach Luis Felipe Scolari on the eve of the Confederations Cup opener against Japan.

LONDON, (Reuters) – English champion racehorse trainer Henry Cecil, who triumphed a record 75 times at Royal Ascot, died of cancer on Tuesday at the age of 70.

Guyana’s strength for the upcoming Caribbean Karate Championships in Barbados next month lies with the technique of the younger karatekas says Sensei Jeffrey Wong who added that the team was on a mission to bring home as many medals as possible.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaican track star Veronica Campbell-Brown has been tested positive for a banned substance.

CARDIFF, Wales,  CMC – West Indies have been fined for maintaining a slow over-rate during their rain affected Group B match against South Africa in the Champions Trophy here on Friday.

(Reuters) – South Africa scraped into the Champions Trophy semi-finals after their Group B match against West Indies in Cardiff on Friday was declared a tie on the Duckworth-Lewis method for determining rain-affected matches.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A chanceless unbeaten 134 from Kumar Sangakkara inspired Sri Lanka to a seven-wicket win over an overly cautious England yesterday to leave Champions Trophy Group A wide open ahead of the final two matches.

OSLO, (Reuters) – Olympic champion Usain Bolt responded to last week’s surprise sprint defeat in Rome by storming to a world-leading time of 19.79 seconds over 200 metres at the Bislett Diamond League meeting yesterday.

SAN ANTONIO,  (Reuters) – LeBron James had a game-high 33 points and the Miami Heat beat the San Antonio Spurs 109-93 last night to even the best-of-seven NBA Finals series at 2-2.

The question which looms in the thoughts of cricket fans and analysts who just favour stumps flying out of the ground and balls disappearing into the depths of the crowd is will South Africa live up to their billing as the ultimate chokers in must-win contests or will the West Indies rise to the occasion today.

KINGSTON,  (Reuters) – Jamaican 400 metre runner Dominique Blake was banned for six years yesterday for a second doping offence.

The stage is set for the resumption of play in the 9th edition of the Linden Secondary Schools U-19 Basketball Championships with a double header slated to commence at 2.30 pm at the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) Hardcourt on Monday.

Laured ‘Nightmare’ Stewart envisions a dream debut but a restless night for his opponent, Anson Greene when the pair matches gloves on June 29 in the 28th edition of the Guyana Fight Night Pro Am card at the Uitvlugt Community Centre ground.

ARDMORE, Pennsylvania,  (Reuters) – Luke Donald birdied three holes in a row from the 11th to move to the top of the leaderboard late in yesterday’s weather-interrupted first round of the U.S.