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(WICB) ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – The West Indies Cricket Board announced yesterday that its Selection Committee has named a 15-member Test squad for the West Indies tour of India, starting later this month.

(BBC) Worcestershire’s Moeen Ali has been named Player of the Year by the Professional Cricketers’ Association.

Retrieve Raiders defeated Wismar Pistons 53-43 when action in the Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA)/Trophy Stall Championships continued at the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) hard court on Wednesday night.

DUBLIN, Ohio, (Reuters) – As much as players and officials like to talk up the competitive nature of the Presidents Cup there was also an end-of-season party atmosphere at Muirfield Village yesterday with even Tiger Woods joining in the fun.

Banks DIH Limited yesterday appointed six sport ambassadors from several disciplines in recognition of their outstanding achievements and potential.

The Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA) in collaboration with BOSAI Minerals Group Guyana Inc has installed three new lamps at the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) hard court in Linden.

With just over a week remaining before he faces David Thomas, light welterweight prospect Kishawn ‘Special K’ Simon is brimming with confidence ahead of his bout at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

NEW YORK,  CMC- Jamaica’s martial artists have captured two gold and a silver to stamp their class at the New York Taekwondo Open for a second straight year.

(BBC) International cricket’s top run-scorer Sachin Tendulkar believes sub-continent teams will be hard to beat in the 2015 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.

SHIMOGA, India,  CMC- Leon Johnson missed his century by nine runs as the West Indies A built a formidable total of 406 against India A on the second day of their unofficial four-day test match here yesterday.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC-West Indies Women head coach Sherwin Campbell has expressed disappointment with the batting performance of his team on the eve of their home series against New Zealand.

DELHI, India, CMC-Trinidad and Tobago all-rounder Lendl Simmons says the presence of cricket legend Brian Lara has raised team morale in the Red Force campaign for the Champions League T20 title in India.

SCARBOROUGH, Tobago,  CMC- Swedish cyclist Johan Svensson has won the second stage of the division one race at the annual Tobago International Classic on Wednesday.

ST.JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC-The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) today announced a 15-man Test squad for the tour of India, starting next month.

Last year’s 74kg Master Two world power lifting champion and two-time World Masters medalist, Winston ‘Little Master’ Stoby returned from Orlando, Florida on Sunday after smashing his world dead lift record en route to lifting the overall silver medal at the World Masters Power lifting Championships.

DELHI, India, CMC-Lendl Simmons, Evin Lewis and Rayad Emrit played key roles as Trinidad and Tobago crushed Chennai Super Kings by eight wickets to claim a decisive victory and cement their spot in the Champions League Twenty20 semi-finals yesterday.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – Veronica Campbell-Brown, one of Jamaica’s most decorated athletes, has been found guilty by the three-member Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) Disciplinary Committee.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC- New Zealand’s Women’s cricketers have arrived in the Caribbean to play West Indies in a three-match One Day International series starting on Sunday at Sabina Park, Jamaica.

The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) is accusing the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) of unfair play by refusing to give the BCB any subvention which has resulted in the board coming under immense financial constraints.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC-Top order batsman Chinelle Henry has been called-up while left-armer Stacy-Ann King has been recalled to the West Indies Women’s squad for the ODI series in Jamaica and the T20 series in Barbados.