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(Reuters) – India’s arrival in Zimbabwe brings with it vital competition on the field but also a much-needed boost to the coffers of a host nation that faces a busy final six months of the year.

ZURICH/BERN, (Reuters) – Former FIFA executive committee member Chuck Blazer, a key figure in a U.S.

A mature fifty from Brad Hodge was instrumental in taking the Guyana Amazon Warriors to a crucial victory in a rain-affected match against St.

Mark Xavier, Faizal Khan and Frank `English’ Parris have been relieved of their Golden Jaguars management duties last week according to a source within the GFF’s Normalization Committee.

SCARBOROUGH, Tobago, CMC – Title-holders Barbados rebounded from their opening round loss to trounce Leeward Islands by nine wickets in the second round of the Regional Under-17 Championship here yesterday.

Orin `Vege” Hickerson is a table tennis player who is known for having a strong offensive game but the former national junior player has reserved his strongest attack for the current administrators of the sport.

The contingents of badminton and swimming departed Guyana on Tuesday, joining some of their counterparts in Toronto, Canada where they will represent the nation at the 2015 Pan American Games which starts tomorrow.

Athletes of the Running Brave Athletic Club occupied most of the podium spots when the inaugural CARICOM relay meet was staged on Sunday at the National Park.

Fitness fans get ready, Fitness Paradise’s annual Gym Expo returns to Pegasus’ Savannah Suite on Sunday.

CARDIFF, (Reuters) – Joe Root plundered a superb century to defy Australia as England recovered from a poor start to post 343 for seven on the first day of the first Ashes test yesterday.

(Reuters) German Andre Greipel was again far too strong for the opposition as he claimed his second win in this year’s Tour de France with an impressive sprint in the fifth stage on Wednesday.

(Reuters) Novak Djokovic won the battle of grand slam champions by downing Marin Cilic 6-4 6-4 6-4 on Centre Court to reach the Wimbledon semi-finals yesterday.

(Reuters) Roger Federer was at his regal best as he floated into the Wimbledon semi-finals with a silky 6-3 7-5 6-2 win over Frenchman Gilles Simon yesterday.

(Reuters) Richard Gasquet sent French Open champion Stan Wawrinka flying out of Wimbledon on Wednesday, winning the battle of the slingshot backhands 6-4 4-6 3-6 6-4 11-9 to reach the Wimbledon semi-finals for the second time.

(Reuters) South Africa have released captain AB de Villiers from their one-day international squad in Bangladesh ahead of the three-match series starting in Mirpur tomorrow.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Maria Sharapova would have done well not to have watched Serena Williams out-slug Victoria Azarenka in a Wimbledon quarter-final of extraordinary quality yesterday.

(Reuters) Zimbabwe have made four changes to their One-Day International squad for the three-match series at home to India starting tomorrow, including a return for Malcolm Waller.

In what will be a rematch of last year’s final, Santa Rosa will faceoff with Port Kaituma after the former edged North West Secondary 7-6 on sudden death kicks in their semi-final affair when the Digicel Secondary Schools Football Championship continued yesterday.

The last time the Guyana Amazon Warriors and the St Kitts Patriots met Warriors skipper Denesh Ramdin struck a match-winning 50 to help his team thump the Marlon Samuels-led team by seven wickets.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The heavy hitting shook the ground and the volume would have raised the Centre Court roof, had it been closed, as Serena Williams and Victoria Azarenka traded blows like a couple of prizefighters at Wimbledon yesterday.