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BRISBANE, (Reuters) – Opener David Warner put New Zealand’s bowlers to the sword with a masterful 163 and Usman Khawaja scored his maiden test century as Australia dominated the opening day of the first test at the Gabba yesterday.

(WICB) BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – As the six WICB Professional Cricket League franchises were busy going through their final week of preparations, so too were the men and woman that will join them on the field this coming season.

Guyana’s FIFA Referee Assessor Roy McArthur will depart local shores shortly for Canada to assess in a group-A matchup between Canada and Honduras in round four of the 2018 World Cup Qualifiers.

National cyclist, Alanzo Greaves will belatedly celebrate his birth anniversary by doing what he does best.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Director of cricket, Richard Pybus, says players should use the Professional Cricket League first class championship starting today, to force their way into the West Indies senior side for upcoming tours.

Winners Connections and Botofago got off to the perfect start in the UDFA First Division Football League, crushing Netrockers and Blueberry Hill respectively when the event commenced on Wednesday at the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) ground.

(Reuters) – Pakistan’s spinners handed their team a 2-0 series victory after ripping through England’s batting line-up on the fifth day of the third and final test at Sharjah yesterday.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC – West Indies will have to do without Twenty20’s leader bowler, Samuel Badree for their two-match series against Sri Lanka starting next Monday.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC – West Indies’ disappointing tour of Sri Lanka continued here yesterday when they plunged to an eight-wicket loss in the second One-Day International to tamely concede the three-match series.

ST GEORGES, Grenada, CMC – CARICOM Heads of Government have requested an “urgent meeting” with the embattled West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), in a move aimed at to having the far-reaching recommendations of the Cricket Review Panel report implemented swiftly.

Despite the top brass of the West Demerara Football Association (WDFA) and the East Bank Football Association declining to participate and the failure of the Georgetown Football Association executive to respond to theirs, the Petra Organization in collaboration with the Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Company has decided to go ahead and yesterday officially launched the inaugural GT&T Knockout Football Championships.

The five member Cricket Review Panel appointed by the CARICOM Sub-committee of Cricket Governance, says an outmoded governance structure which does not make issues of transparency and accountability priority, are among the reasons responsible for their decision to call for the immediate dissolution of the West Indies Cricket Board.

Anton Corneal, a FIFA technical Development Officer is calling on the winner of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) upcoming presidential elections to demonstrate proper governance.

Despite being asked to provide transfer information by Buxton United on all the overseas players competing in the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Stag Beer Elite League, the GFF has not yet responded although they have officially ruled on a similar matter.

PARIS,(Reuters) – Lamine Diack, the former head of world athletics, has been placed under formal investigation in France on suspicion of corruption and money laundering following a complaint from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

Charmaine Wade was elected the President of the National Association for Women’s Football (NAWF) when the entity staged its electoral congress on Tuesday ahead of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Congress on November 14th.

BLOEMFONTEIN, (Reuters) – That South African Olympic and Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp when he fired four shots through a locked toilet in his home is beyond doubt.

(The Sports Xchange) – Coming off the best regular season in franchise history, the Toronto Raptors are 4-0 for the first time ever.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC- A report on the state of West Indies cricket is strongly recommending the immediate dissolution of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), Cricket sources with knowledge of the contents of the report tell CMC.

With the Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) set to commence their 10-team first-division league on Sunday at the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) ground, the Guyana Football Federation has officially donated one million dollars towards the staging of the event.