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(WICB) ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – This year’s Regional 4-Day Tournament continues today with a full slate of matches.

(BBC) England captain Stuart Broad says he is “baffled” by a decision to change the ball during his side’s series-clinching one-day win over West Indies.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia,  CMC – Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz crushed minnows St Lucia 5-0 in their international friendly on Wednesday, to ease to their second victory in four days.

Annandale will face Strathspey Primary School in today’s semi-finals of the Central East Coast zone of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/Scotiabank Kiddy Cricket Festival at the Enterprise ground at 10am, with the winner taking on Enterprise in the finals from 12 noon.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – If the tough get going when the going gets tough, then the Formula One season starting in Australia next week should offer Sebastian Vettel ample opportunity to roll up his sleeves and play the paddock hard man.

Alpha United led by an Edison Gomes double, defeated Buxton United 2-0 in the opening encounter of the Vizion Sports and Entertainment Agency Caribbean Interclub football matches at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground, Bourda on Wednesday.

Representatives from 24 schools competing in the Milo/Petra Organization Schools Football tournament attended a two-day awareness workshop on Gender-based Violence in the boardroom of the Health Ministry.

ROME,  (Reuters) – Serie A team Cagliari, led by midfielder Daniele Dessena, are taking on entrenched homophobia in Italian soccer by wearing rainbow coloured laces in their boots to express solidarity with gay people.

National Coach Esuan Crandon and Manager Alvin Johnson are optimistic about today’s second-round home game against defending four-day champions Barbados, though they acknowledged that it will be a pivotal game for the so far winless Guyanese.

The Essequibo Cricket Board (ECB) commences its 2014 under-15 season today, with the ECB/ Sterling Products and Doodnauth Samaroo Construction U-15 50 overs inter-association tournament.

El Dorado and Rising Star will do battle in the finals of the South Essequibo Cricket Committee (SECC) Edward Skeete T20 competition on Sunday at Pomona ground on the Essequibo Coast from 1.30pm.

PRETORIA,  (Reuters) – One of the first people on the scene after Oscar Pistorius shot girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp told a court on Thursday he feared the Olympic and Paralympic star, now on trial for murder, might kill himself with the same gun.

(BBC) England batsman Jos Buttler is “one of the finest finishers in cricket” says West Indian legend Viv Richards.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s centre-forwards again failed to score against South Africa on Wednesday but it turned out to be nothing more than a minor inconvenience thanks to another inspirational performance by Neymar.

(ICC) Cricket Australia’s National Selection Panel yesterday advised that Mitchell Johnson will return home to Australia today to rest ahead of the ICC World Twenty20 in Bangladesh and will not take part in the Twenty20 Series against South Africa beginning on Sunday.

(The Sports Xchange) – Highlights of Wednesday’s National Basketball Association games.

(ICC) Australia’s 245-runs victory in the third and final Test in Cape Town against number-one ranked South Africa has not only helped it win the series 2-1, but has also allowed it to finish in second position on the Reliance ICC Test Team Rankings table at the 1 April cut-off date.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – With their next test series in Sri Lanka in July, Cricket South Africa (CSA) say they are in no rush to find a replacement captain for Graeme Smith, who retired from the sport at the conclusion of the third test against Australia on Wednesday.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – – A group of Kashmiri university students who cheered for Pakistan during a cricket match against India have been charged with disturbing communal harmony, police in India’s Uttar Pradesh state said yesterday.

NORTH STAND, Antigua, CMC –England survived a threatening century from Denish Ramdin to beat West Indies by 25 runs and clinch the series two-one at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium yesterday.