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(Reuters) – India pipped New Zealand by six runs in a rain-truncated Twenty20 thriller to win the three-match series 2-1 in Thiruvananthapuram yesterday.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – England fast bowler Steven Finn has been ruled out of the Ashes series against Australia after scans showed he has torn his left knee cartilage, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said yesterday.

(Reuters) – Australia paceman Mitchell Starc claimed his second hat-trick of the match to lead New South Wales to a 171-run victory over Western Australia in the Sheffield Shield yesterday.

(Reuters) – Surrey pace bowler Tom Curran has been called up to replace the injured Steven Finn in England’s squad for the Ashes, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said yesterday.

ZURICH,  (Reuters) – Former Namibian sprinter Frankie Fredericks was suspended by the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday after being placed under formal investigation in France in a probe into allegations of vote buying to win the 2016 Summer Olympics for Rio de Janeiro.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Three-time reigning champions, Guyana Jaguars, are already beginning to pull away from the pack, after just two rounds of the 2017 Regional Four-Day Championship.

Ariel Speedboat successfully retained the Guyana Floodlights Softball Cricket Association (GFSCA) Guyana Cup Seven title on Sunday evening after defeating Boots All Stars by three runs in a last over thriller played at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) ground.

SYLHET, Bangladesh, CMC – West Indies opener Evin Lewis lashed a half-century as Dhaka Dynamites rebounded from their opening day defeat with a convincing 65-run victory over Khulna Titans in the Bangladesh Premier League here Sunday.

Despite failing in their quest to return with medals from the Junior Caribbean Cycling Championships, the five young local teen riders would have gained valuable experience and exposure following the event this past weekend in Barbados.

The national cricket selectors have made one change to the surging Guyana Jaguars 13-man squad for their third round encounter against second place Leeward Islands Hurricanes which begins Thursday at Warner Park, St Kitts.

After the last shot was fired at the Commonwealth Shooting Federation (CSF) championships which ended yesterday at the Belmont Shooting Centre, Brisbane, Australia, Guyanese riflemen Lennox Braithwaite and Mahendra Persaud were in the top 10 of world-rated shooters.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – India’s football federation (AIFF) has been reminded by FIFA that it cannot be influenced by legal or political inference from inside the country, the global soccer body said.

LAHORE, Pakistan,  CMC – The proposed historic three-match Twenty20 series between West Indies and Pakistan scheduled for later this month here, is now unlikely to come off before after March next year.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – England’s pace spearhead James Anderson is keen to bowl with the pink Kookaburra ball in the day-night warm-up game in Adelaide to gain an experience which he believes will come in handy in their Ashes campaign against Australia.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia paceman Mitchell Starc fired an ominous warning to England ahead of the Ashes series with a hat-trick for New South Wales on the second day of a Sheffield Shield match yesterday.

(The Sports Xchange) – For the second time in three days, it took until the mid-fourth quarter for Madison Square Garden to come alive.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka have dropped batsmen Kusal Mendis and Kaushal Silva from the squad for the three-test series in India, starting next week, while fit-again all-rounder Angelo Mathews has returned from injury.

Pele clinched their first win in the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) 2017/2018 Senior League edging home side Georgetown Football Club (GFC) 1-0 Sunday.

Guyana’s women’s team battled to a scoreless draw with Puerto Rico (PUR) when the Central American and Caribbean Games 2018 Hockey Qualifiers continued yesterday.

The Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) will bring its curtain down on the 2017 domestic season with the National Open championships from November 27-30.