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DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – Defending champions West Indies remained bullish ahead of today’s crucial World Twenty20 clash against hosts Bangladesh, refusing to be daunted by Sunday’s defeat to India that triggered criticism of their running between the wickets.

(Reuters) – Everton must put an end to their awayday blues at Newcastle United today to keep alive their outside hopes of qualifying for next season’s Champions League, said manager Roberto Martinez.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – The mayor of Porto Alegre has warned the city may drop out of the World Cup unless it makes a crucial decision this week on financing for temporary structures at the Beira Rio stadium.

The Mayor’s All-Stars Football team completed their Surinamese Tour on winning note, defeating Suriname’s U-20 side by a 2-1 score line.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Speedster Fidel Edwards is anxious to make a comeback to the West Indies team but says that path is being frustrated by Barbados selectors.

(Reuters) – England captain Stuart Broad has been fined 15 percent of his match fee for criticising the officials after his side’s rain-affected World Twenty20 defeat to New Zealand, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said Sunday.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – West Indies captain Darren Sammy said Sunday there was no need to press the panic button, in the wake of his side’s loss in their opening match of the World Twenty20 Championship.

CAVE HILL, Barbados, CMC – Leon Johnson and Tagenarine Chanderpaul staged a fight-back for Guyana, after Chadwick Walton collected his third first-class century to put the Combined Campuses in command in the Regional Four-Day Championship here Sunday.

MIRPUR, Bangladesh, (Reuters) – As he took off his helmet, tucked his bat under his arm and trudged back to the pavilion after a 19-ball struggle in the World Twenty20 on Sunday, Yuvraj Singh looked a shadow of the talismanic all-rounder who delivered two World Cups for India.

(Reuters) – Former U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro has confirmed he is to have an operation on his injured left wrist, which is likely to sideline him for most of the rest of the season.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – A Russian billionaire said on Monday he planned to relocate his company that runs the Brooklyn Nets basketball team to Russia in keeping with the Kremlin’s call on Russian businessmen to repatriate their assets to help combat new U.S.

(The Sports Xchange) —The short-handed Cleveland Cavaliers, using just nine players, beat the Knicks 106-100 to end New York’s eight-game winning streak.

Godfrey Pollydore out sprinted Alanzo Greaves to win the third and final leg of the Cheddi Jagan Memorial road race in a thrilling sprint finish yesterday in Essequibo, but Greaves’ +consistency enabled him to lift the overall trophy of this year’s event.

Day two of the CARIFTA trials to select Guyana’s representatives at the Easter Weekend Games in Martinique came and went just as swiftly as some of the times the junior athletes recorded on the track yesterday.

Guest poser of this year’s Hugh Ross Classic (HRC), IFBB Pro Jeff Beckham, is scheduled to arrive in Guyana today.

Opening batsman Bhaskar Yadram was yesterday retained as Captain for the Demerara Under-15 team ahead of the upcoming Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/Limacol U15 tournament which gets underway shortly.

Benjamin Mekdeci claimed the category-A title while Shomari Wiltshire was crowned the category-B champion when the Kraft Junior Skill Level Tournament sponsored by Toucan Industries concluded at the Georgetown Club on Camp Street yesterday.

An inspired second half team performance propelled Fruta Conquerors to a 3-1 victory over arch-rivals Sunburst Camptown when Georgetown Football Association (GFA) division one league commenced on Saturday.

CAVE HILL, Barbados, CMC – An explosive, maiden first-class hundred from Shacaya Thomas combined with another destructive spell from off-spinner Ryan Austin put Combined Campuses and Colleges in a superior position against Guyana in the Regional Four-Day Championship on Saturday.

Queen’s College mauled North Georgetown Secondary 5-0 when the round of the 16 knockout matches in the Milo/Petra Organization Schools Football tournament commenced yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.