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GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Title-holders Barbados rebounded from their opening round loss to crush Jamaica by eight wickets but rain wrecked the Regional Women’s Championship for the second successive round here Saturday.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – St. Kitts & Nevis Patriots left-arm seamer Krishmar Santokie will part with 75 per cent of his match fee after breaching the Caribbean Premier League’s Code of Conduct.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Lancashire’s England ODI vice-captain Jos Buttler hit 57 off 22 balls with a fractured thumb in a T20 win over Worcestershire on Friday, the county club said X-rays had revealed.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Cometh the hour, cometh the man — Andy Murray proved himself the bastion of British tennis once again as he outclassed Canadian powerhouse Milos Raonic to claim a second Wimbledon title in masterful fashion yesterday.

EUGENE, Oregon, (Reuters) – Justin Gatlin won a 200 metres showdown with LaShawn Merritt and 41-year-old Bernard Lagat made his fifth Olympic team by winning the 5,000m at the U.S.

SILVERSTONE, England, (Reuters) – An ecstatic Lewis Hamilton won his home British Grand Prix for the third year in a row yesterday and his Mercedes team mate Nico Rosberg’s overall lead was slashed to a single point.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Substitute Eder’s thunderous finish deep into extra time secured Portugal’s first European Championship title after they overcame the early loss of Cristiano Ronaldo to snatch a 1-0 smash-and-grab victory over hosts France on Sunday.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – St. Kitts & Nevis Patriots left-arm seamer Krishmar Santokie will part with 75 per cent of his match fee after breaching the Caribbean Premier League’s Code of Conduct.

Leg-spinner Adam Zampa’s three wickets reinforced by a scorching 43 from Captain Martin Guptill took the Guyana Amazon Warriors to another hard-fought win, their fourth successive of the 2016 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) when they beat the St Kitts & Nevis Patriots by four wickets yesterday at the Providence National Stadium.

Unbeaten Bahamas were crowned the Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC) Boys U16 champions last night  by after they defeated hosts Guyana 84-57 in the final at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Defending Region Number Nine champs Annai Secondary School laboured into the zone final of the Digicel Schools Football Championships, squeaking past Sand Creek Secondary 2-1 yesterday at the St.

Georgetown, Guyana – First Lady, Sandra Granger, yesterday lauded the timeliness and the agenda of the Guyana Olympic Association’s (GOA) Women in Sport seminar, which was convened to discuss issues specific to girls and women, who participate in sport and to begin the process of breaking down barriers to equality.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Serena Williams put the icing on the cake of another magnificent Wimbledon campaign by teaming up with sister Venus for a sixth doubles crown at the All England Club yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – It was third time lucky for American Serena Williams as she finally matched Steffi Graf’s professional era record of 22 grand slam singles titles by beating Angelique Kerber to claim a seventh Wimbledon crown yesterday.

PARIS, (Reuters) – The fate of today’s intriguing European Championship final between France and Portugal weighs largely on two men wearing the number seven shirt, one already at the top of the game and the other one getting there fast.

Fitness fans get ready, the highly anticipated Mr. Guyana Bodybuilding and Fitness Show will be staged tonight at the National Cultural Centre.

Moves are on stream to acquire a specialist scrum coach from Argentina to work along with national rugby Coach, Laurie Adonis and his charges from the ‘Green Machine’.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – West Indies left-arm spinner Jomel Warrican made a definite impression but India still gathered precious batting practice on the opening day of their two-day tour match against the WICB President’s XI here yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Since Andy Murray’s memory is as razor sharp as his service returns, he will not have forgotten the parting shot he received from Milos Raonic when they last played.

After winning back to back cycling races last weekend, the wheelsmen of Team Evolution returned to the National Park yesterday to continue their dominance on the local circuit.