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Most Valuable Player at the just concluded Hand In Hand Under-19 Inter-County tournament, Junior Sinclair has set his sights on breaking into the West Indies youth team for the Under-19 World Cup as well as the Guyana Cricket Academy.

SOUTHAMPTON, England,  CMC – All-rounder Carlos Brathwaite and opener Evin Lewis tuned up for the imminent World Cup with up tempo half-centuries but Australia overpowered West Indies to win by seven wickets, in a practice match at the Rose Bowl here yesterday.

(BBC) England’s one-day side have “the best opportunity in my time” to win the World Cup this summer, says former captain Michael Vaughan.

MONACO, (Reuters) – Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton was exempted from media duties at the Monaco Grand Prix yesterday as teams and drivers came to terms with the death of triple world champion Niki Lauda.

The Toronto Raptors have the momentum, but the Milwaukee Bucks will be playing on their home court Thursday night in the pivotal Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, (Reuters) – Boxing should keep its place at next year’s Olympic Games but recognition of AIBA, the governing body of the sport’s amateur version, should be suspended, the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) executive board recommended yesterday.

SOUTHAMPTON, England,  CMC – Big-hitting left-hander Shimron Hetmyer hopes to use the World Cup to make a an indelible mark on the international stage but says his main priority will be helping West Indies win the ICC showpiece.

Guyana is expected to field a national T10 team to face off against the Windward Islands, South/Central (TT) and North/Tobago (TT) in a T10 International Cricket Tournament sponsored by Southern Sales and Service Company Limited, NLCB and In-Electra Limited.

LONDON,  CMC – Former West Indies fast bowler, Ravi Rampaul, crafted a solid all-round performance but it was not enough to prevent Derbyshire from crashing to a two-wicket defeat to Glamorgan here yesterday.

MANCHESTER, England,  (Reuters) – The 2022 World Cup in Qatar will be held with 32 participating teams and not an expanded 48 teams, organisers FIFA said yesterday.

The round of 16 section in the 2019 edition of the Hamilton Green 9-a-side Inter-Ward Football Championship commences today at the Den Amstel Community Centre ground.

Historic individual performances already assured, Stephen Curry and Draymond Green went after something more important to them Monday night.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – French prosecutors have described a web of corruption once rife in world athletics, including bribes paid to cover up athletes’ positive drugs tests, in an indictment recommending that Lamine Diack, the Senegalese former head of the IAAF, and his son stand trial.

VIENNA,  (Reuters) – Austrian motor racing great Niki Lauda, whose comeback from a near-fatal crash made him a global symbol of resilience and determination, has died at the age of 70.

Decorated and long-serving squash coach Carl Ince is set to take the Junior National Squash team under his wings for an intense period of training as the Guyana Squash Association (GSA) intensifies its readiness for the 2019 edition of the Caribbean games set for Trinidad and Tobago in July.

The respective group finishers in the fourth annual Corona Futsal Championships were presented with their prizes yesterday at the National Gymnasium.

The 16th Torginol Paints Golf tournament was launched at the company’s Industrial Site Ruimveldt location yesterday and is set to tee off June 1.

Reliance Hustlers, Queenstown B, RG X1 and Bacchus Bulls stormed into the semi-finals of the Banks Softball league which commenced last Sunday at the Affiance Ground.

The Golden Jaguars will commence their League-B campaign in the CONCACAF Nations League September 6th away to Aruba following the official release of the event schedule yesterday by the confederation.

SOUTHAMPTON, England, CMC – Veteran opener Chris Gayle will be among several West Indies players anxious to find one-day form when the Caribbean side take on Australia in a warm-up match here today.