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DUBAI, (Reuters) – Debutant Pakistan off-spinner Bilal Asif ripped through the Australian middle-order with six wickets as the visitors were bowled out for 202 on the third day of the first test in Dubai yesterday.

Senior national squash player, Nyron Joseph is pleased with his showing in 2018 following his herculean effort on Sunday to recapture the Lucozade Handicap Squash title which brought the curtain down on senior squash tournaments for the year at the Georgetown Club Squash court. 

Former Guyana youth player Danny Narayan smashed a blistering century and returned with the ball to take two wickets for Ruimveldt to propel North Soesdyke to a 44-run defeat at the Everest Cricket Club ground Sunday as the fifth annual East Bank Demerara Cricket Association/Neville Sarjoo Memorial 40-overs-a-side tournament continued.

With the International Cricket Council (ICC) Women’s World T20 exactly a month away, there is no word on the progress as it relates to the acquisition of the replay screen for the Guyana matches set to be hosted at the Providence National Stadium.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Kazakhstan’s Serik Konakbayev, a vice president of the international boxing association (AIBA), has filed an urgent appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against his exclusion as a presidential candidate, CAS said yesterday.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – The International Olympic Committee has asked Senegal to support a French investigation into the son of the former head of the international athletics federation (IAAF) who is suspected of corruption, IOC President Thomas Bach said yesterday.

The Marriott Beach front, Kingston will come alive on October 19th, when the ‘Bragging Rights’ One Day Street-Ball Championship kicks-off.

Quincy Boyce and the Guyana Defense Force (GDF) took home the marquee accolades when the final bell of the Lennox Blackmore Intermediate Championships chimed on Sunday night at the National Gymnasium.

In the presence of a packed Enmore Community Center Ground on Sunday, Enterprise Busta Sports Club dominated the final of the Bargain Supermarket Carib Beer T20 tournament to beat Strathavon Sports Club by 72 runs.

Former Guyana U-19 captain Travis Persaud was left stranded on 99 as Mc Gill Super Stars defeated Hydronie Sports Club by 86 runs on Sunday at Meten-Meer-Zorg Cricket Ground during the Elroy West Demerara T20 tournament.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC – Left-hander Darren Bravo is poised to make a return to West Indies colours for the first time in two years after being named in a revamped 15-man Twenty20 squad for the three-match tour of India next month.

TAROUBA, Trinidad, CMC – Opener Chandrapaul Hemraj celebrated his call-up to the West Indies one-day squad with his maiden List A hundred as Guyana Jaguars brushed aside Windies B by nine wickets, in their Group A clash here Sunday night.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Spinners Damion Jacobs and Rahkeem Cornwall won Leeward Islands Hurricanes their first match in a low-scoring contest, as they came from behind to beat Combined Campuses and Colleges Marooners by nine runs in Group B of the Regional Super50 here yesterday.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Favourites Trinidad and Tobago Red Force suffered a scare but held their nerve to beat minnows Canada by two wickets, and post their third straight victory in Group A of the Regional Super50 here Sunday night.

(Reuters) – Pakistan’s Haris Sohail struck his maiden test century as they ended the second day of the first test against Australia with a lead of 452 in Dubai yesterday.

(Reuters) – Mo Farah scored a stunning Chicago Marathon victory as he won in two hours five minutes and 11 seconds in only his third race over the distance on Sunday.

President of the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) James Bond,says newly elected president of the FIDE, Arkady Dvorkovic is expected to visit Guyana early next year as the country continues to make strides in the sport internationally.

SILVERSTONE, England, CMC – Lewis Hamilton shook off a first-lap collision which left him last and drove superbly to finish second in his home Grand Prix, as Ferrari archrival Sebastian Vettel won at Silverstone here yesterday.

Wismar/Christianburg, Annandale, Charlestown and Queen’s College secured opening day victories yesterday in the GUYOIL/Tradewind Tankers Under-18 Secondary Schools Football Championship at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

Pacesetters defeated Nets 89-85 in their division one clash, when the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association [GABA] League Championships continued Sunday at the Burnham Court, Carmichael and Middle Streets.