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(Cricket West Indies) ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Rahkeem Cornwall could make his long-awaited Test debut on home soil, when West Indies kick off their campaign in the new ICC World Test Championship against India later this month. 

The first One Day International between India and West Indies in Guyana in 30 years was abandoned due to consistent showers at the National Stadium, Providence yesterday.

The Jubilee Tarmac Park will be a battlefield tonight when the eagerly anticipated Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ National Championship officially kicks off.

Trend-Setters, High Rollers and Germans United secured lopsided wins when the 6th edition of the New Era Entertainment/Mohamed’s Enterprise Futsal Tournament continued on Wednesday.

Guyana Rush Saints defeated Far East Sports Club 2-1, when the Theresa and George Bobb/RFA Under-17 Women’s Football tournament continued on Wednesday at the St Ignatius Sports Ground.

Aliyah Abrams finished last in the 400m women’s final yesterday while Brenessa Thompson ended fifth of six starters in semifinal two of three in the 200m, dashing Guyana’s last hopes of medaling at the ongoing Pan American Games in Lima, Peru.

The National U-15 footballers secured their quarterfinal berth in the CONCACAF Under-15 Championship, defeating Cayman Islands 2-0 yesterday at the IMG Academy, Florida, USA.

TAROUBA, Trinidad, CMC – Teenager Shubman Gill punished West Indies A with his second first class double hundred, leaving the hosts with a huge victory target and a battle for survival in today’s last day of the final four-day “Test”.

MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – Manchester United succeeded in offloading striker Romelu Lukaku to Inter Milan on a transfer deadline day which saw plenty of business but few jaw-dropping deals from Premier League clubs.

CAPE TOWN  (Reuters) – South Africa’s Hashim Amla announced his retirement from international cricket yesterday, bringing the curtain down on one of the country’s leading batting careers.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian prosecutors are dropping a rape case against soccer star Neymar, they said yesterday, likely bringing an end to the most serious of charges against the Paris St Germain striker.

LONDON (Reuters) – Arsenal have signed Brazilian centre back David Luiz from London rivals Chelsea, the Premier League clubs said yesterday.

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Cricket Australia welcomed transgender women on to its elite teams yesterday as it issued guidelines for their inclusion, amid a toxic battle over fairness in female sport.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Howard Webb has more experience than most of officiating top flight football matches and his stint in North America’s Major League Soccer has convinced him that Video Assistant Referees (VAR) will only improve the English Premier League.

(Reuters) – Leicestershire Foxes captain Colin Ackermann set a new Twenty20 bowling record on Wednesday by taking seven wickets for 18 runs in his team’s victory over Birmingham Bears in the T20 Blast.

For the first time in three decades India will play a One-Day International (ODI) in Guyana when they turn up at the National Stadium, Providence today looking for a positive start in the three-match series against West Indies.

Another crop of promising West Indian under – 15 cricketers, including three Guyanese departed the region Monday for a tour of England, all set to represent the Caribbean.

Four Guyanese are among 20 other regional under – 19 players that were asked to remain in the St.

This year’s Guyana Cup horse race meet is saddling up to be the best one yet and B.M

Associated Packers Industry (API) will be making its debut as a corner man of the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) for the staging of the fourth Caribbean Schoolboys and Juniors Boxing Championships later this month.