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Simpson Guillen, who died in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Friday, aged 88, holds a unique record.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago’s spinners delivered once again, bowling them to an impressive 120-run victory over Leeward Islands on the final day of their third round Regional Four-Day Championship match here yesterday.

The Guyana Lawn Tennis Association (GLTA) will join the rest of the world in celebrating World Tennis Day today with a Tennis Festival for young children at the Racquet Centre.

The Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) will today stage a one day Blitz tournament at the West Demerara Secondary School, Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara.

(Reuters) – Lendl Simmons blasted six sixes as his unbeaten 63 led West Indies to a comfortable eight wicket victory over Zimbabwe in the first of two Twenty20 internationals in Antigua today.

(BBC) India enjoyed the better of the opening day of the second Test in Hyderabad despite another fine knock by Australia captain Michael Clarke.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Confident West Indies will put their Twenty20 skills on show in the Caribbean for the first time since winning last year’s World Championship when they face lowly Zimbabwe in the opening T20 International here today.

A new executive to manage the affairs of football in Guyana will be elected on April 12 when the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) holds its annual general meeting and election of office bearers.

The Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) will now hold its elections on March 14th, one day before associations are required to submit their nominations for the GFF Presidency.

The cream of the country’s junior hockey players will be in action this weekend in the Hikers Hockey Club/Global Technology Schools and Club tournament beginning today at the National Gymnasium on Mandela Avenue.

The Hadi’s World Incorporated-City Mall/ Georgetown Cricket Association first division two-day cricket competition will resume this weekend with three matches after persistently wet weather delayed

Steven Xavier overcame a severe handicap to defeat Joven Benn in straight games on night three of the Bounty Farm Mash Handicap tournament on Thursday night at the Georgetown Club’s squash facility.

By Juanita Hooper Guyana’s junior athletes will compete today and tomorrow at the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) ground Camp Ayanganna in the first official track and field meet of the athletics season when the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) stages its CARIFTA Games Time Trials to select the team to compete at the 2013 CARIFTA Games in April in The Bahamas.

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent,  CMC – Discarded West Indies off-spinner Shane Shillingford forced himself into reckoning for the Zimbabwe series when he routed Guyana to set up a four-wicket victory for Windward Islands here  yesterday.

74-kilogramme Masters Two deadlift World record holder, Winston ‘Little Master’ Stoby, along with other local powerlifters won gold medals and smashed Commonwealth and World records last year enabling the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPF) to lift the association of the year award.

The Noble House Seafoods second division, two day cricket competition will resume today and tomorrow after persistently wet weather forced a postponement.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka,  CMC – Captain Merissa Aguilleira struck a boundary from the last delivery of the game as West Indies Women pulled off a dramatic two-wicket win over Sri Lanka in the opening Twenty20 International of the five-match series here yesterday.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC- The top  scorer in the recent Caribbean T20 tournament, Chris Barnwell, says he is anxious to show case his skills for West Indies against Zimbabwe in the two match T20 series this weekend.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago were eyeing victory against Leeward Islands after setting the hosts a challenging 335 to win their third round Regional Four-Day Championship encounter here  yesterday.

CAVE HILL, Barbados, CMC – Dominant Barbados crushed Combined Campuses and Colleges by an innings and 185 runs inside three days, to post their second straight win in the Regional Four-Day Championship here yesterday.