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Skipper Shimron Hetmyer blazed an unbeaten half-century yesterday as his team secured a draw against the Leon Johnson XI after four days of high-intensity cricket played at the Georgetown Cricket Club Ground.

A 90th-minute Romario Welcome strike earned Georgetown Football Club (GFC) a come-from-behind 2-2 draw with Fruta Conquerors when the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Stag Beer Elite League continued on Wednesday.

ABU DHABI, (Reuters) – England captain Alastair Cook slugged a record-extending 28th test ton and Ian Bell a half-century as the tourists reached 290-3 against Pakistan at the close of the third day of the first test yesterday.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Zaheer Khan, one of India’s most successful fast bowlers, announced his retirement from international cricket yesterday but says he will continue to play the domestic Twenty20 form of the game for one more season.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Oscar Pistorius will be released on parole on Oct.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – The India team manager has been fined 40 percent of his match fee for making inappropriate comments about an umpire during the hosts’ ongoing series against South Africa, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said yesterday.

(Reuters) – Opener Dimuth Karunaratne missed out on a maiden double hundred but his 238-run stand with fellow centurion Dinesh Chandimal set up Sri Lanka’s first-innings total of 484 on day two against West Indies in the opening test at Galle today.

GALLE, Sri Lanka, CMC – West Indies made a sluggish start to the opening Test here yesterday after opener Dimuth Karunaratne stroked his third Test hundred to put Sri Lanka on top on day one at the Galle International Stadium.

Kevon Boodie yesterday slammed an emphatic century for the Shimron Hetmyer XI which reached 272 all out on the third day of the four-day practice match at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground.

GALLE, Sri Lanka, CMC – Sixteen years ago on Tuesday marked an historic day in West Indies limited-over cricket history when the now legendary Sir Curtly Ambrose sent down the second most economical spell on the format’s history.

SEOUL, South Korea, CMC – Reggae Boyz head coach, Winfried Schafer, says his side must use Tuesday’s humbling 3-0 defeat to South Korea as a learning curve in order to improve.

GALLE, Sri Lanka, CMC – Interim West Indies head coach Eldine Baptiste yesterday praised his bowlers for their commitment on a slow track but said dropped catches had put a blemish on the performance, on the opening day of the first Test.

The Guyana Football Federation was yesterday facing a mini crisis over the decision by Slingerz FC to refuse to take the field against the Guyana Defence Force Tuesday night in their Guyana Football federation Stag Beer Elite League clash due to questions surrounding the eligibility of several of their players.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – A dozen officials at FIFA, the world soccer body shaken by corruption investigations in the United States and Switzerland, had accounts at Swiss private bank Julius Baer, the Handelszeitung newspaper reported yesterday.

Alpha United climbed to the top of Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Stag Beer Elite League, downing Buxton United by a 2-0 score line on Tuesday at the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) ground.

(Reuters) Novak Djokovic breezed into the third round of the Shanghai Masters with a 6-2 6-1 victory over Martin Klizan yesterday but Ivo Karlovic made sure Rafa Nadal had to work a lot harder.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago were frustrated with a nil-all draw against Nicaragua on Tuesday night, in their final friendly international ahead of their campaign in the 2018 World Cup qualifiers starting next month.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC-Jamaica’s netballers Shanice Beckford and Nicole Dixon have signed deals to play for Team Northumbria (TN) in the Netball Super League (NSL) in the United Kingdom.

INDORE, India, (Reuters) – India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni hammered 92 not out and skilfully marshalled his bowlers to secure a series-levelling 22-run win against South Africa in the second one-day international yesterday.

(BBC) Shoaib Malik registered his maiden Test double century to put Pakistan in a commanding position on the second day of the first Test against England.