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(Reuters) – Umar Gul and Saeed Ajmal bowled superbly at the death to inspire Pakistan to an eight-run victory over England in the first Twenty20 international in Dubai yesterday.

ZURICH,  (Reuters) – Manchester United scraped into the last 16 of the Europa League yesterday, narrowly avoiding a humiliating elimination after being outplayed and losing 2-1 at home to Ajax Amsterdam.

MARANA, Arizona, (Reuters) – Tiger Woods’ bid for a first PGA Tour victory in over two years ended prematurely yesterday when he lost one-down to fellow American Nick Watney at the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Besides the urgings of boxing fans around the world eager for Manny Pacquiao to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr.,

KINGSTON,  (Reuters) – Jamaican triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt will miss his second consecutive scheduled meeting of the season on Saturday so he can concentrate on training, his agent said.

By Iva Wharton If the main bout of Saturday’s World Boxing Council’s (WBC) Champions Cup between Guyana’s Wayne ‘Big Truck’ Braithwaite and Shawn Cox of Barbados is anything like the verbal exchanged witnessed at a press conference hosted by the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) yesterday, then patrons will surely get their monies worth.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica Cricket Association has slammed the West Indies Cricket Board over what it terms “unjustified and disrespectful” criticisms levelled at Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Guyana middle order batsman Assad Fudadin says last weekend’s Regional Four-Day match against Combined Campuses and Colleges will hold special memories after he carved out his maiden first class hundred at Warner Park.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former Trinidad and Tobago captain Daren Ganga has been called up to a 15-man squad in preparation for their fourth round tussle with Windward Islands in the Regional Four-Day Championship starting here tomorrow.

CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh,  CMC – Veteran West Indies left-hander Shiv Chanderpaul stroked a breezy 33 but Dwayne Smith failed to score as Khulna Royal Bengals went down to Barisal Burners by four wickets in the Bangladesh Premier League here yesterday.

(Reuters) – South Africa clinched the Twenty20 international series against New Zealand after Marchant de Lange claimed two wickets in an eventful final over to seal a thrilling three-run victory in the third and final match in Auckland yesterday.

(Reuters) – Miami’s reserves starred in a critical late-game stretch to hand the Heat their seventh consecutive victory with a 120-108 home win over the Sacramento Kings on Tuesday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Combined Campuses and Colleges have made just one change to their 13-man squad for their fourth round clash in the Regional Four-Day Championship against Barbados starting here tomorrow.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – New York Knicks head coach Mike D’Antoni is looking forward to some rare downtime following this weekend’s All-Star game that will give him a chance to fit all the moving pieces of his team together for the second half of the season.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates,  CMC – West Indies have continued to languish at number eight in the One-Day Internationals, in the latest International Cricket Council rankings released on Tuesday.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The inaugural edition of India’s Premier League Soccer (PLS), featuring World Cup winner Fabio Cannavaro and former France international Robert Pires, has been postponed because of a lack of venues, organisers told Reuters yesterday.

Following are the latest results in the Guyana Floodlight Softball Cricket Association’s (GFSCA) Hadi softball league following last week-end’s matches.

ROSEAU, Dominica,  CMC – Captain Merissa Aguilleira produced a responsible knock to guide West Indies to a four-wicket win over India in the third Twenty20 International of the five-match series here yesterday.

By Carwyn Holland Barbadian Shawn “The Sniper” Cox and Guyanese Wayne “Big Truck” Braithwaite are both promising victory after the two met face-to-face for the first time yesterday in the boardroom of the Abdool and Abdool Incorporated office on Avenue of the Republic.

Two weeks ago a delegation from the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) met with representatives of several clubs in West Berbice and committed the Board to host a one- day cricket academy and several coaching sessions for youth cricketers.