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(Reuters) – Former Olympic high hurdles champion Liu Xiang of China defeated the 2008 Beijing gold medallist Dayron Robles on Saturday in their first race since the Cuban was disqualified for obstructing Liu at last year’s world championships.

(Reuters) – Opening batsman Richard Levi took advantage of the small boundaries at Seddon Park to blast a world record 13 sixes and guide South Africa to an eight wicket win over New Zealand to level their Twenty20 series in Hamilton yesterday.

National player and Marion Academy student Jamaali Homer on Saturday captured the Under-13 girls’ title of the annual Mashramani table tennis tournament which continued at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

BARROW IN FURNESS, England, CMC – Shannon Gabriel looks set to spend the summer in England playing in the Northern League.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies opener Kraigg Brathwaite anchored Barbados to a morale-boosting, five-wicket victory over Trinidad & Tobago in the Regional 4-Day Tournament yesterday.

CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh, CMC – Shivnarine Chanderpaul upstaged hometown hero Mohammad Ashraful, when he smashed an unbeaten 87 to lead Khulna Royal Bengals to a seven-wicket victory over Dhaka Gladiators in the Bangladesh Premier League Twenty20 yesterday.

BRISBANE, (Reuters) – Ben Hilfenhaus took five wickets as Australia’s pacemen ripped through India’s top order to secure an emphatic 110-run victory in the one-day Tri-series on a steamy night at the Gabba in Brisbane yesterday.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Australian Dav Whatmore will replace the Pakistan team’s interim coach Mohsin Khan after their one-day series against England ends this month, a Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) source told Reuters yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Positive half-centuries from Raymon Reifer and Chadwick Walton propped up Combined Campuses and Colleges and gave them a fighting chance, heading into the final day of their third round clash with Guyana here yesterday.

Former vice president of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Bissoondyal Singh yesterday refuted GCB’s General Secretary Anand Sanasie’s version of the signing of visa application letters for two cricketers Marvin Munroe and Wasim Haslim.

Dorado club swimmer Hannibal Gaskin achieved another four personal best times while Jessica Stephenson made another CARIFTA “A” qualifying time on the third day of the Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA) annual Mashramani meet which continued yesterday at the National Aquatic Center at Pattensen.

CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh, CMC – Barbados and West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Smith stroked a typically robust half-century to power Khulna Royal Bengals to a narrow four-wicket win over Sylhet Royals in the Bangladesh Premier League on Saturday.

To the multitude of troubles that undermine West Indies cricket on an almost daily basis, Joel Garner highlighted another last week.

(Reuters) – Jeremy Lin coughed up nine turnovers in his first defeat as a New York Knicks starter with the lowly New Orleans Hornets claiming a surprise 89-85 victory at a sold-out Madison Square Garden on Friday.

By Iva Wharton As the controversy between the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) and the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) rages on, evidence is being unearthed by the GFA in its bid to prove its suspension was unjustified, that the suspension was a direct result of the GFA’s criticism of now banned GFF president Colin Klass.

(Reuters) – Kevin Pietersen hit his first ODI century for more than three years to steer England to a nine-wicket win over Pakistan yesterday to help them secure an unassailable 3-0 lead in the series.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Thirteen wickets tumbled on a dramatic third day but Barbados were left scenting a win over arch-rivals Trinidad and Tobago in their Regional First Class Championship contest here yesterday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Arsenal’s miserable week got worse yesterday when they were knocked out of the FA Cup in a 2-0 fifth round defeat at Sunderland while beleaguered Chelsea fared only slightly better by scraping a 1-1 draw against second tier Birmingham City.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Luckless Leeward Islands plunged to another embarrassing defeat yesterday, going down to rampant defending champions Jamaica by an innings and 201 runs at Sabina Park.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – A Sri Lankan bank has agreed to release 600 million Sri Lanka rupees ($5.07 million) to the country’s cash-strapped cricket board to pay its salary-starved players, according to the sports ministry.