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An urgent meeting will be held by the executive members of the Guyana Horse Racing Authority (GHRA) on Sunday at the Bush Lot United Turf Club, West Coast, Berbice.

LINCOLN, New Zealand,  CMC-Shivnarine Chanderpaul missed out on a century by eleven runs on the second day of the three-day tour match between a West Indies X1 and a New Zealand X1 here today.

KANPUR, India,  CMC- India rode on a sparkling century from Skikhar Dhawan to beat West Indies by five wickets in the third and final One Day international (ODI), clinching the three-match series two-one here yesterday.

(WICB) CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand – Former West Indies batsman Stuart Williams says he is pleased to work with the West Indies team as one of the Assistant Coaches for the upcoming tour of New Zealand.

Heavy rain yesterday forced the indefinite rescheduling of today’s  first round double-header of the Guyana Cricket Board’s (GCB) Senior Inter-county four-day competition.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Two workers were killed yesterday when a crane collapsed at the stadium staging the opening match of next year’s World Cup of soccer, causing damage to the exterior and renewing questions about whether Brazil will be ready to host the event on time.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC- A school in Barbados has named its park after a former student, the late West Indies fast bowler Malcolm Marshall.

RIO DE JANEIRO, – Nilton Santos, the galloping left back who was a regular in Brazil’s World Cup-winning sides of 1958 and 1962, has died in Rio from complications caused by a lung infection.

Last Sunday, conditions were overcast during the Caribbean Motor Racing Championships (CMRC) at the South Dakota Circuit but the action was steaming like the engines of the Caribbean’s fastest machines.

Eight clubs and 12 teams are set to battle for top honours in the second annual Colts Basketball Club’s Phillip George Memorial Championships today at the Burnham Basketball Court.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC- The West Indies Under-19 Team will face the Sagicor West Indies High Performance Centre in two 50-over matches before departing for their tour of Bangladesh.

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand,  CMC- A makeshift West Indies team has made a positive start against a New Zealand X1 who declared on 227 for 8 at stumps on the first day of a three-day match yesterday.

Globe Yard edged Riverview 5-4 on sudden death kicks from the halfway mark when the opening night of the Guinness Greatest of the Streets Georgetown Zone commenced at the Demerara Park tarmac in Industrial Site on Tuesday.

Six months ago, junior star cyclist, Raul Leal was lying on a Georgetown Public Hospital bed with steel in his hand and foot, urinating in a bedpan and losing pounds of hard-earned muscle.

The Guyana Chess Federation’s (GCF) Vita Malt-Plus Senior Championships is hosting its first match on Saturday and is expected to feature eight of the nation’s leading players including three-time defending champion Taffin Khan.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) seven-a-side rugby competition which was scheduled to kick off last night in celebration of its 48th anniversary at the Camp Ayanganna Playfield was postponed indefinitely due to inclement weather.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – U.S. Masters champion Adam Scott confirmed his remarkable form by carding a course record 10-under-par 62 in the first round of the Australian Open at Royal Sydney yesterday.

MADRID,  (Reuters) – Real Madrid made light of the first-half dismissal of Sergio Ramos to secure a thumping 4-1 win at home to Galatasaray yesterday that put them through to the last 16 of the Champions League as Group B winners.

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates,  CMC — Nepal, with a last-ball victory, and hosts United Arab Emirates booked their places in next year’s Twenty20 World Cup in Bangladesh in playoffs at the qualifiers here yesterday.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – The Adelaide Oval curator will seek to juice up what has traditionally been a docile pitch for the second Ashes test between Australia and England next week, meaning batsmen may be in for a torrid opening.