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Renowned for its passion for cricket and its penchant for revelry, there was no more appropriate location for a T20 tournament than the West Indies.

Guyana’s top 400m athlete Winston George, fresh from reaching the 400m final at the recent Pan Am games in Edmonton, Canada, stormed to victory Friday in the men’s 100m Invitational race winning in 10.01s as the curtain came down on the Guyana Police Force’s Inter-Division track and field championships at the National Synthetic Track, Leonora.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Pakistan ended their tour of Sri Lanka with a dramatic one-wicket victory in the second Twenty20 yesterday to complete a 2-0 series win, having also triumphed in the test and ODI encounters.

BIRMINGHAM, (Reuters) – Overlooking Australia vice-captain Brad Haddin for the third Ashes test was the “hardest decision I have had to make as coach”, Darren Lehmann said.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England have added two pace bowlers to their 14-man squad for the fourth test against Australia starting at Trent Bridge on Thursday as possible replacements for the injured James Anderson.

Sprint ace Alisha Fortune winged out to France last night to compete at the World Masters Athletic Outdoor Championship.

NEW YORK, CMC – Legendary West Indies batsman Sir Garfield Sobers is among a group of former West Indies cricketers in New York to participate in cricket matches this weekend.

Plaisance Guardians defeated Eagles by an 82-61 score line in an U23 fixture when the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) League qualifying knockout tournament commenced on Friday.

The Guyana Darts Association’s Emancipa-tion tournament will take place today at the Malteenoes Sports Club.

Guyana’s Calvin Thomas Friday captured the gold medal in the 5000m event at the Special Olympics World Games competition in the United States of America.

Technical Director of the Guyana Wado-Ryu Karate Federation Sensei Winston Dunbar left Guyana yesterday for Ontario, Canada where he will participate in an international training seminar with the Canadian Wado-Ryu Federation.

Yesterday they had a chance to see and place their hands on the beautiful trophy that the winning team in this year’s Digicel nationwide schools football tournament will take home and one is sure that the respective captains of Wismar/Christianburg and Chase Secondary Schools have been motivated to be in sole possession of that coveted trophy come tomorrow.

The Fédération Internationale de Football Association’s (FIFA) has not upheld the protest by the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) that the St Vincent and the Grenadines national football team fielded an ineligible player in their World Cup Qualification match in June.

MANDEVILLE, Jamaica, CMC – Guyana confirmed their place in tomorrow’s final of the Regional Under-19 Championship when they brushed aside minnows Canada by four wickets in their final round game here yesterday.

The Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) on Thursday handed over a quantity of gloves and head guards to the newly formed Ann’s Grove Boxing Gym.

A battle between a teacher and student will be on full display when Kristian Jeffrey clashes with his father Kevin Jeffrey on August 9 at the highly anticipated Race of Champions event.

Former national rider, Robin Persaud has won the Reagan Rodrigues Memorial 50-mile road race on three consecutive occasions.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The former chairman of an Argentina-based sports marketing business, one of 14 people indicted in a corruption case that has roiled the soccer world’s governing body FIFA, pleaded not guilty in a U.S.

BIRMINGHAM, (Reuters) – England would love to regain the Ashes in the next test at Trent Bridge but the loss of leading bowler James Anderson to injury is a disappointment they must overcome, captain Alastair Cook said.

SPANISH TOWN, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica made sure of their place in the final of the Regional Under-19 Championship when they defeated Barbados by 39 runs in their final round contest here yesterday.