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Amelia’s Ward Panthers edged Hi-Stars while Topp XX and Botofago battled to a draw when the Upper Demerara Football Association [UDFA] Senior League resumed yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Combined Campuses and Colleges Marooners skipper, Carlos Brathwaite, said his side’s triumph in the Regional Super50 was built on a desire not to simply compete but to play an aggressive brand of cricket and actually win the competition.

CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – Two-time Twenty20 World Cup-winning captain, Darren Sammy, has urged fans to buy their tickets for the upcoming ICC Women’s T20 World Cup being staged in the Caribbean, and throw their full support behind the hosts who are defending champions.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, the visionary behind Combined Campuses and Colleges, says the team’s success in the Regional Super50 has confirmed the programme as the “heartland of the West Indies cricket academy.”

Football has for many years been classified as the undisputed king of sport, played on every continent and in almost if not all 195 recognized countries that comprise the world.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Pressure was building on Cricket Australia chairman David Peever to resign yesterday in the wake of the release of a scathing independent review into the culture of the game.

PERTH,  (Reuters) – Young South Africa speedster Lungi Ngidi has singled out Australia’s newly-appointed 50-over captain Aaron Finch as a major threat to his side’s chances in the three match one-day international series, which begins in Perth on Sunday.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Rohit Sharma struck yet another ‘daddy hundred’ but it was probably Ambati Rayudu’s relatively modest century on Monday which pleased India captain Virat Kohli more as he seeks an end to a pesky problem seven months before next year’s World Cup.

The Bishops’ High and Marian Academy Schools secured contrasting wins when the Guyoil/Tradewind/Tankers Under-18 Secondary Schools Football tournament continued yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

Klay Thompson set an NBA record with 14 3-pointers as part of an NBA-season-high 52-point performance, and the visiting Golden State Warriors stormed to a 149-124 win over the Chicago Bulls on Monday night.

Ariel Speedboat, under lights in the wee hours of yesterday morning, motored to their third consecutive Guyana Floodlights Softball Cricket Association (GFSCA) international Softball Cup Open title by defeating SVC by four wickets at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) ground. 

The nation’s top three distance athletes swept the podium following the first leg of annual South American 10K Road Race in Suriname on Sunday. 

MUMBAI, India, CMC – Captain Jason Holder’s unbeaten half-century spared West Indies embarrassment but they still suffered a record 224-run drubbing, as India registered their largest-ever victory over a Test-playing nation in the fourth One-Day International here yesterday.

MUMBAI, India, CMC – A disappointed West Indies captain Jason Holder has lamented his side’s batting meltdown, which he said was unfortunate especially coming on the backs of superb performances in the previous three matches of the series.

Historically, Essequibo has been categorized as the least dominant team in cricket compared to its counterparts Demerara and Berbice.

West Demerara and Lower Corentyne notched up victories in round one yesterday as the historic Guyana Cricket Board women’s U17 Secondary Schools Franchise League T20 tournament bowled off.

Woodpecker Hikers followed up their opening night win against Saints with another triumph, this time against GCC Bingo Spartans on the second evening of the GTT National Indoor Hockey Championships at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) last evening. 

In a climate where local sports associations are often divorced from the realities of what needs to be done to develop sports, kudos must be given to the Guyana Hockey Board [GHB] for their bold initiative to bring together a squad of young players to begin preparations for the Junior PanAm Games in 2020. 

A spectacular spell of spin bowling from Mohammed Jameer which resulted in a hat-trick, catapulted Georgetown Eco Champs to a 90-run win over Malteenoes Sports Club in the Georgetown Cricket Association/ Friends of Cricket U17, 100 overs tournament at the Guyana National Industrial Corporation (GNIC) Ground, Woolford Avenue Sunday.

Kuru-Kururu, Plaisance, Crane, Sophia, Wales and Agricola secured hard-fought wins when the Mayor’s Cup  9-a-side Inter-Ward Birthday Anniversary Football Championship continued Sunday at the Den Amstel ground.