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COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Mahela Jayawardene has been rested for the limited-overs leg of Sri Lanka’s series against Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates starting next month.

BRISBANE,  (Reuters) – Australia captain Michael Clarke has been fined 20 percent match fee for using offensive language against England paceman James Anderson during the first Ashes test at the Gabba, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said yesterday.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – Detested in some countries and regarded as act of cunning in others, the practice of diving and feigning injury to win penalties and get opponents sent off has become ingrained in football almost everywhere.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Former Manchester United central defender Bill Foulkes, a survivor of the 1958 Munich air crash, has died aged 81, the club announced yesterday.

(Reuters) – Future Hall of Famer Kobe Bryant signed a two-year contract extension with the Los Angeles Lakers yesterday, the team announced.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – All season long, Los Angeles Clippers head coach Doc Rivers has been preaching his mantra that NBA championships can be won only with good defense and his new team finally came up with the goods for all four quarters.

(Reuters) – Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose will miss the rest of the National Basketball Association (NBA) season after undergoing knee surgery yesterday, the team said.

BASEL, Switzerland,  (Reuters) – Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho is relishing the prospect of a Premier League Christmas, a period he said on Monday that only the brave could survive.

The sixth edition of the Petra Organization/Banks DIH Limited Guinness Greatest of the Streets Georgetown leg football tourney will commence today at the Demerara Park tarmac with eight slated fixtures.

Jamaican ace driver Doug ‘Hollywood’ Gore won the champion driver trophy but Guyana’s Kevin Jeffrey and the Vieiras, Mark, Stephen and Paul starred at the South Dakota Circuit yesterday and enabled the locals to regain the coveted Caribbean Motor Racing Championships (CMRC) country award.

Sunburst Camptown began their title defence in emphatic fashion, crushing Essequibo 10-0 in the opening encounter of the Georgetown Football Association (GFA)/Banks Beer Knockout Cup on Saturday at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground, Bourda.

Guyana and West Indies all-rounder Christopher Barnwell was yesterday named Captain of the Demerara 14-man team while West Indies ‘A’ batsman Leon Johnson was appointed his deputy ahead of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Senior Inter-county four-day tournament which bowls off on November 28.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel wrapped up the Formula One season yesterday by winning the Brazilian Grand Prix and becoming the first driver to take nine successive victories in a single year.

TACLOBAN, Philippines, (Reuters) – Filipinos at temporary shelters in typhoon-ravaged central Philippines erupted in jubilation after boxing hero Manny Pacquiao thumped American Brandon Rios to clinch the WBO welterweight crown in Macau on Sunday.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – Newcomers Anwar Ali and Bilawal Bhatti put together a match-winning partnership and shared in five wickets as Pakistan beat South Africa by 23 runs in the first one-day international at Newlands yesterday.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Australia’s Jason Day rode an emotional wave of crowd support to win the World Cup of Golf by two strokes at Royal Melbourne yesterday after an enthralling duel with Danish runnerup Thomas Bjorn.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC – Former West Indies fast bowler Andy Roberts, has accused some umpires and the world governing body for cricket, International Cricket Council (ICC), of targetting West Indies bowlers Shane Shillingford and Marlon Samuels.

VISAKHAPATNAM, India, CMC – Discarded West Indies One-Day International captain Darren Sammy led a West Indies fightback to beat India by two wickets in the second ODI here yesterday.

VISAKHAPATNAM, India, CMC – West Indies captain Dwayne Bravo said yesterday’s victory against India in the second One-Day International was as a result of team effort and their hunger to win.

BRISBANE, (Reuters) – Rejuvenated Australia paceman Mitchell Johnson blitzed England with a haul of five for 42 to lead his country to an emphatic 381-run victory in the first Ashes test yesterday.