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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC – West Indies were kept in the field all day ahead of Wednesday’s start of the opening Test as Milinda Siriwardana dominated with an unbeaten hundred for Sri Lanka Cricket President’s XI, on the final day of the drawn three-day tour game here yesterday.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – No room has been found for all-rounders Shaquana Quintyne and Shemaine Campbelle in a 13-member West Indies Women’s squad announced Saturday for the One-Day International series against Pakistan starting later this month.

SOCHI, Russia, (Reuters) – Mercedes clinched their second successive Formula One constructors’ championship yesterday and Lewis Hamilton took a huge stride towards his third drivers’ title with victory in Russia.

KANPUR, India, (Reuters) – AB de Villiers and Rohit Sharma enhanced personal reputations with scintillating centuries but it was the timely interventions of South African bowlers that secured the visitors’ five-run win over India in the first one-dayer yesterday.

(Reuters) – Jeremy Lin scored 16 points off the bench to help the Charlotte Hornets prevail 106-94 over the Los Angeles Clippers in the first of two pre-season games in China yesterday.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC – Following defeats in their last three series, stand-in head coach Jerome Jayaratne said he has urged Sri Lanka to use the West Indies tour to begin their turnaround in form.

(Reuters) Kenyan Dickson Chumba pulled away from compatriot Sammy Kitwara and comfortably won a slow Chicago Marathon in a sweep for the African nation yesterday.

KANPUR, India, (Reuters) – AB de Villiers and Rohit Sharma enhanced personal reputations with scintillating centuries but it was the timely interventions of South African bowlers that secured the visitors’ five-run win over India in the first one-dayer today.

Enterprise Primary, South Ruimveldt and St. Angela’s were winners when the fourth annual Petra Organisation/Courts Pee-Wee Under-11 football continued yesterday at the Thirst Park ground.

Alpha United and the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) battled to a 1-1 draw when the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Stag Beer Elite League continued Friday at the Tucville Community Centre ground.

Pele FC maintained their unbeaten run in the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Stag Beer Elite League, downing fierce rivals Fruta Conquerors 2-1 Friday at the Tucville Community Centre ground to climb atop the points standings.

National cyclist Raynauth Jeffrey returned to the local circuit with a bang yesterday.

International Pharmaceu-tical Agency (IPA), sole importer of the Universal Nutrition supplement line is proud to welcome Guyana’s Men’s Physique champion, Emmerson Campbell as its latest Brand Ambassador.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC – Carlos Brathwaite belted a cameo half-century and seamer Kemar Roach picked up two early wickets but West Indies were made to toil against the Sri Lanka Cricket President’s XI on the second day of their three-day tour match here yesterday.

The Guyana Floodlights Softball Cricket Association (GFSCA) organisers of the fifth annual Guyana Softball Cup competition which gets cracking at month end has teamed up with Survival Travel Agency to make available for lucky spectators return airline tickets to Barbados.

Rugby fans are being reminded that the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU)/Trophy Stall-sponsored 7s tournament gets underway today at the University of Guyana Campus ground from 10:00hrs.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Discarded West Indies gloveman Carlton Baugh stroked an unbeaten, even hundred to extend his rich vein of form, on Friday’s final day of the drawn three-day warm-up game in preparation for next month’s Professional Cricket League.

ON their four previous tours of Sri Lanka, the West Indies have been blighted by one setback or another.

Guyana fell agonizingly close to securing a berth in the final of the Pan American Hockey Federation (PAHF) Challenge, losing to Venezuela 4-5 in a sudden-death penalty shoot-out yesterday in Chicklayo, Peru.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC – West Indies batsmen made a sluggish start to their tour of Sri Lanka, on a rain-hit opening day of their three-day tour match here yesterday.