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 (The Sports Xchange) – – -Tony Parker scored 30 points as the San Antonio Spurs battled to beat the lowly Orlando Magic 121-112 at home.

SOPOT, Poland, CMC – Reigning World and Olympic 100 metres champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica won her first World Indoor medal when she ran a world leading time of 6.98 seconds to capture the gold in the women’s 60m final here yesterday.

MOUNT MAUNGANUI, New Zealand, CMC – New Zealand Women beat West Indies by 34 runs to complete a clean sweep over the West Indies in their Twenty20 series in Mount Maunganui here yesterday.

PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa, (Reuters) – Torrential rain forced the abandonment of the first Twenty20 match between South Africa and Australia without a ball being bowled at St George’s Park yesterday.

Freeburg Secondary upset North Georgetown Secondary by a 2-1 margin when the Milo/Petra Organization Schools Football tourney continued yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Marlon Samuels provided a support act to openers Dwayne Smith and Chris Gayle to help West Indies to a 27-run win over England to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match Twenty20 International series at Kensington Oval today.

David Rose Secondary crushed Richard Ishmael Secondary 5-1 when the Milo/Petra Organization Schools Football tourney continued yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

A 10-member Guyana table tennis team dominated the teams and singles events of an interland table tennis and developmental championships in Suriname among teams from Suriname and French Guiana recently.

Left arm spinner Sulieman Benn yesterday bowled defending champions Barbados to first innings points against Guyana in their day/night encounter of the West Indies Cricket Board regional four day competition at the Providence National Stadium.

 By Tony Cozier AFTER the West Indies were routed by an innings in less than three days in their two Tendulkar farewell Tests in India last November, Clive Lloyd said they “looked drunk” on an overindulgence of Twenty20 cricket.

The Berbice Cricket Board’s Telenec Incorporated U15 one-day cricket competition which began last Saturday in West Berbice, saw wins for Blairmont and Bush Lot United Sports Club New Beginning cricket team in games played at the Bush Lot and Bath grounds.

Left arm spinner Sulieman Benn yesterday bowled defending champions Barbados to first innings points against Guyana in their day/night encounter of the West Indies Cricket Board regional four day competition at the Providence National Stadium.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Kieran Powell missed out on his seventh first class century but Leeward Islands batted all day to defy Jamaica on the opening day of their second round, Regional Four-Day match in St Kitts on Friday.

In perfect conditions for racing at the National Park yesterday, Team United’s Hamzah Eastman secured victory in the feature 35-lap event of  the inaugural 11-race Caribbean International Distributors Inc.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies batting star Chris Gayle has lamented the manner in which Kevin Pietersen was treated by England’s cricket authorities.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies face England today in the first Twenty20 International of their three-match series, with head coach Ottis Gibson confident his side can come away with a valuable series win in the build-up to the T20 World Cup in Bangladesh later this month.

The nation-wide club championships currently being held by the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) to determine the country’s top club will continue today with the quarter-final matches involving the top teams of Georgetown and Linden.

Queen’s College upset Tutorial Secondary 2-1 when the Milo/Petra Organization Schools Football tourney continued yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

(Reuters) – Lahiru Thirimanne returned to torment Pakistan again as in-form Sri Lanka lifted the Asia Cup title after their comprehensive five-wicket victory in the final yesterday.

(The Sports Xchange) -Guard Terrence Ross showed no ill effects from a sprained left ankle that sidelined him from last Sunday’s game, leading the Toronto Raptors to a comfortable 99-87 points win over the Sacramento Kings.