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The victorious Demerara U15 team pose with GCB President Drubahadur along with coach Clive Grimmond and others.
The victorious Demerara U15 team pose with GCB President Drubahadur along with coach Clive Grimmond and others.

Noble picks up hat trick and mankad’s Berbice

Spinners Michael Puran and Andre Seepersaud starred as Demerara edged Berbice by four runs in yesterday’s Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/Dave West Indian Exports Inter-county U15 final played at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC), Bourda Ground.

Roston Chase

Chase, Warrican give Pride the edge

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Roston Chase struck a defiant half-century but left-arm spinner Nikita Miller’s eight-wicket haul limited Barbados Pride to a slender first innings lead on the rain-hit second day of their Regional four-day contest here yesterday.

FIFA reforms and the WICB’s obstinacy

THE lawyers advising delegates of the 41 member states of football’s North, Central America and the Caribbean Confederation (Concacaf) on the need for change might just as well have been Caribbean Community (Caricom) governments addressing the directors of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) on the same theme.

Dwayne Bravo

Bravo pilots Windies to warm-up win

SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates, CMC – A Dwayne Bravo half-century was enough to lift West Indies to an 18-run victory over Zimbabwe, in their first unofficial Twenty20 warm-up in preparation for the T20 World Cup here yesterday.

Easy win for Alpha but not for Pele

Pele FC and Alpha United secured hard-fought wins over Monedderlust and Georgetown Football Club (GFC) respectively when the Guyana Football Federation’s Stag Beer Elite League Finale continued Friday.

Hamilton extends form to prop up Hurricanes

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Wicketkeeper/ batsman Jahmar Hamilton kept up his good form with a half-century as he held the Leeward Islands Hurricanes batting together against Trinidad and Tobago Red Force here yesterday.

Newly elected FIFA President Gianni Infantino gestures next to UEFA Vice-President Angel Maria Villar Llona (L) during the Extraordinary Congress in Zurich, Switzerland yesterday.REUTERS/Ruben Sprich

Europe’s Infantino chosen to lead FIFA into new era

ZURICH, (Reuters) – Gianni Infantino vowed yesterday to lead FIFA out of years of corruption and scandal after the former UEFA general secretary was elected to succeed his Swiss compatriot Sepp Blatter as president of football’s world governing body.

Federer plans tour return in April

ZURICH, (Reuters) – World number three Roger Federer has delayed his ATP World Tour return by a month and plans to make his comeback from knee surgery at the Monte Carlo Masters in April.

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