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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC — Contrary to reports in some circles experienced wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin was not dropped from the West Indies team for the proposed tour of Zimbabwe.

KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – Endurance runners suspected of doping have been winning a third of Olympic and world championship medals, two news organisations said yesterday, after a leak of thousands of blood test results from 2001-2012 threw global athletics into chaos.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Four Caribbean Member Federations of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) are supporting calls for reforms to athletics governing body.

HARARE, (Reuters) – Craig Ervine struck a powerful maiden century to lead Zimbabwe to a seven-wicket victory over New Zealand in the first one-day international at the Harare Sports Club yesterday.

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – The Grenada Cricket Association (GCA) has included three newcomers in a 13-member squad selected to participate in this year’s Windward Islands Two-day Cricket Tournament, starting in St Vincent later this month.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC — Contrary to reports in some circles experienced wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin was not dropped from the West Indies team for the proposed tour of Zimbabwe.

It will be the usual Linden versus Georgetown rivalry when defending three-time champs Christianburg/Wismar (CWS) Secondary School tackles Chase Academy in the grand finale of the 5th Annual Digicel Secondary School Championships today at the National Stadium, Providence from 18:00hrs.

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.