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(Reuters) – The declining fortunes of West Indies cricket hit a new low today when the Caribbean team failed to qualify for the 2017 Champions Trophy in England.

President of the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) and former national U19 cricketer Alfred Mentore said yesterday that while he was not in agreement with West Indies coach Phil Simmons’ comments on the selection process for the One-Day team to tour Sri Lanka, he was not sure that the sanction imposed by the West Indies Cricket Board was in the best interest of West Indies cricket.

Trinidadian accused of continued, repeated misconduct; Warner says FIFA trying to divert attention from Blatter ZURICH, (Reuters) – Trinidadian Jack Warner, once one of the most powerful men in world soccer, has been banned from all football-related activities for life, the ethics committee of the global governing body FIFA said yesterday.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Suspended head coach Phil Simmons will know his fate within the next week, after he meets with a West Indies Cricket Board human resource panel to discuss his controversial comments.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Jason Mohammed has been recalled four years after he made his debut while Test batsman Jermaine Blackwood is poised for his first one-day appearance, in a 15-man squad announced yesterday to contest the three-match One-Day International series in Sri Lanka starting next month.

Chairman of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Normalisation Committee Clinton Urling will be presenting on report on football governance in the Caribbean using Guyana as a case study at a symposium to be held in the United States of America next month.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The second group of West Indies squad left here yesterday for Sri Lanka, even as the controversy of over head coach Phil Simmons’s suspension continued to swirl.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – West Indies Cricket Board director, Azim Bassarath, has disagreed with how the decision to suspend head coach Phil Simmons was taken.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – Swiss authorities have approved a U.S. extradition request for ex-Costa Rican Football Federation President Eduardo Li, the fourth official due to be sent to the United States in connection with a corruption scandal that has engulfed FIFA.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – The security delegation that was sent to Bangladesh to determine whether or not it was safe for Australia’s cricket team to visit the Asian country are on their way home, prompting speculation the tour will be called off.

The 2015 Scotiabank Kiddy cricket competition will bowl off today with teams in the Berbice River area competing for top honors.

HARARE, (Reuters) – Middle-order batsman Umar Akmal hit an unbeaten 38 from 28 balls as Pakistan wrapped up the two-match Twenty20 international series against Zimbabwe with a 15-run win at the Harare Sports Club yesterday.

  Despite only three rounds of the championships being concluded to date, the Guyana Football Federation’s (GFF) Stag Beer Elite League has provided a competitive vehicle following the absence of structured national league.

Guyana and West Indies youth opening batsman Shimron Hetmeyer slammed a century to lead Young Warriors to a convincing six-wicket victory in their final preliminary round match against Tucber Park in the Bobby Deonarine/ Tom Gruntzel/Tenelec Inc.,

ZURICH, (Reuters) – Sepp Blatter has not ruled out trying to stay on as FIFA’s president beyond February’s scheduled election, despite facing a criminal investigation and a possible internal ethics probe, a close confidant told Reuters yesterday.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – UEFA president Michel Platini says the nine-year delay in him receiving a two million Swiss francs payment, which is at the center of a Swiss prosecutor’s investigation, was due to FIFA not being able to pay him on time.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Jason Mohammed has been recalled four years after he made his debut while Test batsman Jermaine Blackwood is poised for his first one-day appearance, in a 15-man squad announced today to contest the three-match One-Day International series in Sri Lanka starting next month.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – Swiss authorities are treating UEFA head Michel Platini as somewhere “between a witness and an accused person” in a soccer corruption probe that was widened last week to include FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Switzerland’s attorney general said.

Devon Davis captured Guyana’s lone medal at the 43rd CAC Bodybuilding Championships which concluded Saturday night in The Bahamas.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Phil Simmons was yesterday suspended as West Indies head coach, for criticising the selection process regarding the one-day team for the upcoming tour of Sri Lanka.