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VALLADOLID, Spain, (Reuters) – Italy’s Daniele Bennati won stage 18 of the Vuelta a Espana, from Aguilar del Campo yesterday, while Spain’s Alberto Contador held on to the overall lead.

LONDON, (Reuters) – There was more disappointment at the Paralympics for South Africa’s Oscar Pistorius after he was left trailing in the wake of Britain’s Jonnie Peacock in the men’s 100m final yesterday.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Roger Federer was knocked out of the U.S.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Selected positions from the latest ICC One-Day player rankings released yesterday: BATSMAN 1 Hashim Amla (SA)             901 2 Virat Kohli (IND)             858 3 AB de Villiers (SA)             852 4 Kumar Sangakkara (SL)         773 5 Jonathan Trott (ENG)             749 6 MS Dhoni (IND)             745 7 Michael Clarke (AUS)         718 8 Alastair Cook (ENG)             707 9 Gautam Gambhir (IND)         689 10 Mike Hussey (AUS)             688 25 Chris Gayle (WI)             633 33 Kieron Pollard (WI)             581 BOWLING: 1 Saeed Ajmal (PAK)             759 2 Mohammed Hafeez (PAK)         747 3 L Tsotsobe (SA)             690 4 Ravi Ashwin (IND)             681 5 Morne Morkel (SA)             676 6 Steven Finn (ENG)             668 7 Graeme Swann (ENG)         661 8 Shakib Al Hasan (BAN)         655 9 Kyle Mills (NZ)             647 10 Dale Steyn (SA)             644 22 Kemar Roach (WI)             598 25 Ravi Rampaul (WI)             586

QUEENSLAND, Australia, CMC-An internationally capped Guyanese national who is now playing professional rugby in Australia says his ultimate dream is to compete in the highest standard of the sport there, the National Rugby League (NRL).

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Having knocked down many an off stump during his time as England cricket captain, Andrew Flintoff hopes to do the same to opponents when he takes to the boxing ring later this year.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Warwickshire won the English county championship for the first time in eight years when they wrapped up an innings and 202-run victory over local relegation-threatened rivals Worcestershire yesterday.

NYON, Switzerland, (Reuters) – Players are still voluntarily kicking the ball into touch when an opponent goes down injured despite directives that they should wait for the referee’s whistle, UEFA said yesterday.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Olympic champion Andy Murray produced an extraordinary turnaround to dig himself out of a deep hole and book his place in the semi-finals of the U.S.

By Treiston Joseph and  Yonalla Dalrymple It has been 20 months since the deal for phase one of what will be Guyana’s first synthetic track has been inked but the first phase is still to be completed.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC-West Indies batsmen have been seeking to improve their ability to play spin as the squad fine tune their preparations in a training camp in Barbados ahead of the ICC T20 world cup in Sri Lanka.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC- Fast bowler Shannon Gabriel has regained his place on the Trinidad and Tobago cricket team after recovering from an injury that forced him off.

The newly-formed Guyana Baseball League (GBL) will hold its first event on September 29 at their Turkeyen Ballpark.

Five athletes were reportedly selected for the upcoming Under-23 championships in Sao-Palo, Brazil coming out of a meeting with coaches and the Athletics Association Guyana’s (AAG) selection panel last evening.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Pakistan crushed Australia by seven wickets in the opening Twenty20 international yesterday.

(Reuters) – Hashim Amla and AB de Villiers shared an unbroken stand of 172 to steer South Africa to comfortable seven-wicket win over England in the fifth and final one-day international in Nottingham yesterday.

Brian Allen, president of the Roraima Bikers Club and manager of the club team that participated in this year’s annual Bigi Bergi four-stage cycle meet in Suriname last weekend is dissatisfied with the organization of the event.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The curtain came down on Andy Roddick’s career when the American was beaten 6-7 7-6 6-2 6-4 by Argentina’s Juan Martin del Potro in the fourth round at the U.S.

Female players Joann Deo and Christine Sukram copped the first and third places when the Unique Group Auto Dealer golf tournament took place at the Lusignan Golf Club last Saturday.

GASA president Andrew Arjoon President of the Guyana Squash Association (GSA) Andrew Arjoon says that despite the fact that Guyana lost both the men’s and women’s team finals he was still pleased with the performance of the national squash team that competed at the 20th edition of the Caribbean Area Squash Association (CASA) Senior Caribbean Squash Championships which were held in Trinidad and Tobago last month.