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A lucrative T20 cricket tournament with some six ounces of gold in prizes will get underway this weekend in Bartica.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Barbados squandered a great opportunity to make good progress on the opening day of their Regional Four-Day semi-final against Trinidad and Tobago here yesterday, when their batting faltered badly at Queen’s Park Oval.

By Neil Barry Three First Division encounters in the Carib Beer and Friends of Cricket Heroes Cup two-day competition and the final round of preliminary matches in the Noble House Seafoods Second Division Competition are set to take place in the city from today.

Guyana will face off with defending champions Jamaica in one of two scheduled semi-final matches of the 2011/12 Regional four-day competition today at the world famous Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica that is  known as the ‘Holiday Home of Cricket’.

By Emmerson Campbell The Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) will come alive tonight when the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) presents the 21st edition of the Guyana Fight Night Pro Am card.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago will be looking to go one better this year when they clash with perennial archrivals Barbados in one of two semi-finals in the Regional Four-Day Championship starting at Queen’s Park Oval here today.

By Iva Wharton The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company yesterday presented a cheque for $1 million to the tennis association.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Out-of-sorts opener Devon Smith has been named in a WICB President’s XI to face Australia in three-day tour match starting in Barbados on Monday.

A 12-member team of  Guyana’s  foremost  powerlifters is currently in St Thomas,  United States Virgin Islands (USVI)  competing in the two-day sixth annual North American Powerlifting Federation Caribbean Powerlifting Championships which commences today.

Nominations for the position of president of the Guyana Lawn Tennis Association (GLTA) will be made when the body hosts its Annual General Meeting (AGM) and elections of office bearers today from 5:30pm at the Georgetown Sports Club, Camp Street.

The inner circuit of the National Park will become a cycling speedway tomorrow when national cycling coach Hassan Mohamed and Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) team up to host the seventh annual Diamond

LONDON, (Reuters) – Usain Bolt, already the world’s fastest man, could lop another 0.18 seconds off his 100 metre sprint world record even without running any faster.

GALLE, Sri Lanka, (Reuters) – Left-arm spinner Rangana Herath claimed a career-best match haul of 12 wickets to propel Sri Lanka to a 75-run victory in the first test yesterday as England slumped to their fourth defeat in a row.

GALLE, Sri Lanka, (Reuters) – Captain Andrew Strauss was at a loss to explain what had gone wrong for his England team after they were beaten for the fourth test in a row yesterday.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian lawmakers on Wednesday moved a step closer to passing a long-delayed measure key to preparations for the 2014 soccer World Cup, breaking a gridlock in Congress that threatened to delay President Dilma Rousseff’s legislative agenda this year.

KEY BISCAYNE, Florida,  (Reuters) – World number one Victoria Azarenka’s 26-match winning streak finally came to an end on Wednesday with a 6-3 6-3 defeat to France’s Marion Bartoli at the Sony Ericsson Open.

(Reuters) – Blake Griffin soared through the air in a spectacular third-quarter move that helped the Los Angeles Clippers take flight in a 103-86 triumph over the visiting Phoenix Suns on Wednesday.

KEY BISCAYNE, Florida,  (Reuters) – World number two Rafa Nadal was pushed all the way by France’s Jo-Wilfried Tsonga before finally emerging with a 6-2 5-7 6-4 victory to earn a place in the semi-finals of the Sony Ericsson Open on Wednesday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Out-of-form batsman Darren Bravo has been released from the West Indies Twenty20 squad for the second and final game against Australia tomorrow.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Trinidad and Tobago will be boosted for their Regional Four-Day semi-final clash with Barbados this weekend, with four international players returning to the 13-man squad announced earlier this week.