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MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Australia handed James Faulkner a four-match suspension yesterday after the all-rounder was charged with drink-driving in Britain this month.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – A panel appointed by India’s top court yesterday recommended that the franchise owners of two Indian Premier League teams be suspended for two years following a cricket corruption scandal.

HARARE, (Reuters) – A maiden century from Kedar Jadhav helped India complete a clean-sweep of the three-match one-day International series in Zimbabwe with an 83-run victory at Harare Sports Club yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) has urged the sport’s ruling body to try to get the game’s Twenty20 international format into the Olympics.

Local coordinators of the Hero CPL yesterday promised a fun-filled yet safe leg the tournament which bowls off tomorrow at the Guyana National Stadium.

A seven-goal blitz from Kelsey Benjamin propelled Chase Academy to a 9-0 drubbing of St.

Guyana Jaguars Assistant Coach and Manager Rayon Griffith has confirmed that Barbadians Ryan Hinds and Javon Searles are scheduled to arrive in Guyana during the first week of August ahead of the 2015/15 Professional Cricket league (PCL) season.

Guyanese Sociologist and former University of Guyana Lecturer Dr. George Kenford Danns has now added a new title to his illustrious career.

Swimmers, Onika George and Omar Adams will push for the podium when the swimming segment of the 2015 Pan American Games starts today at the spanking new CIBC Aquatics Centre & Field House in Toronto, Canada.

The Athletic Association of Guyana (AAG) installed a Fully Automatic Timing (FAT) System at the National Track and Field Centre on Saturday and took it for a successful test run a day later with a relay festival.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – Sepp Blatter is set to face the media in Zurich on July 20 for the first time since he announced last month that he would step down as president of soccer’s governing body FIFA.

Defending three-time national champions Christianburg/Wismar kept their hopes alive of a fourth consecutive championship overcoming Region #3 holders Uitvlugt Secondary on penalty kicks Sunday in the Digicel Secondary Schools championships national playoffs.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – Bangladesh’s teenage fast bowler Mustafizur Rahman has been rewarded for his strong limited overs performances with a call-up to the squad for next week’s first test against South Africa.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – West Indies Cricket Board president, Dave Cameron, says the board will continue to stage town hall meetings across the region and it tries to integrate the public into its decision making.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – In-form batsman Ambati Rayudu has been ruled out of the remainder of India’s tour of Zimbabwe with a muscle injury, the country’s cricket board (BCCI) said yesterday.

GLENDALE, Pheonix, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago’s coach Stephen Hart says the Soca Warriors have defied their critics by reaching the quarter-finals of the CONCACAF Gold Cup.

(Reuters) – American sprinter Justin Gatlin could win world championships and go undefeated for a second consecutive season but he would still not be ineligible for the sport’s athlete of the year award, the IAAF said.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Armed with what Goran Ivanisevic calls a “Balkan mentality” and “positive arrogance”, Novak Djokovic replaced the heartbreak of losing the French Open with the joy of hoisting the Wimbledon trophy in the space of just five weeks.

PAU, France, (Reuters) – Chris Froome is fresher, better prepared and stronger than he was when he won the Tour de France in 2013.

TORONTO, (Reuters) – Nine Brazilian cyclists looking to get in some Pan American Games training had a run-in with Toronto police on the weekend after they were spotted riding along one of the city’s highways.