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Some 13 games are expected to be contested this weekend when the Digital Technology/Chow Pow 10/10 Challenge Series continues today and tomorrow at the Wales Community Centre Ground.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC-National player Yannick Cariah delivered a dominant all round performance but failed to stop PowerGen from eclipsing Bamboo in a nail biting semi-final of the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board 50 overs tournament Thursday.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC- The first player from the Leeward Islands to have been selected on the West Indies cricket team, Elquemedo Willet, is to be honored at a gala ceremony in Antigua early next month.

(BBC) Australia captain Michael Clarke was dismissed for a first-ball duck as his side finished day two of the third Test against India on 273-7.

Region Ten Chairman Sharma Solomon was last evening returned as president of the Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) when the body held its elections.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Off-spinner Shane Shillingford snatched a six-wicket haul as West Indies crushed Zimbabwe by nine wickets inside three days here Wednesday, to post their fifth consecutive Test victory for the first time in 25 years.

Calling for fans to be put at the centre of the `beautiful game’, businessman Faizal Khan yesterday said that football here needs a breath of fresh air and he threw his support behind Troy Cadogan for the presidency of the GFF.

Mae’s School has now been roped into Alpha United’s youth programme.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Offspinner Shane Shillingford says West Indies’ nine wicket win over Zimbabwe yesterday is the “best test match” he has ever played since the start of his international career in 2010.

(Reuters) – Suspended Australia vice-captain Shane Watson received the backing of former skipper Rickie Ponting yesterday as crisis surrounding the team rumbled on.

The ‘Punisher’ Clive Atwell and Venezuelan Raphael Hernandez will headline the boxing card, Fire Storm on April 20th at the Princess Hotel.

2012 59kg Caribbean Powerlifting Championships gold medallist and record holder, Vijai Rahim  along with brothers Gumendra and Suraj Shewdas will be looking to break records when this year’s  Juniors and Novices Powerlifting Championships is staged on Sunday.

(Reuters) – Kobe Bryant has been ruled out indefinitely after he severely sprained his left ankle in the final seconds of the Los Angeles Lakers’ 96-92 loss to the Atlanta Hawks on Wednesday.

Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United will open the second round of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Super League in the feature game of a double header against Pele Football Club on Sunday.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC-West Indies Women cricket captain Merissa Aguilleira is to lead Trinidad and Tobago on a good will tour of South Africa early next month.

(CPL) Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting is the first international   franchise player to be announced by the Caribbean Premiere League (CPL), and says he “cannot wait” to head back this year to the place   where it all began for him.

WELLINGTON, (Reuters) – England wicketkeeper fell short of a century but did enough to put the brakes on a New Zealand fightback and help steer the visitors to 465 all out at tea on the second day of the second test yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England off-spinner Graeme Swann has had successful surgery on his troublesome right elbow and will now start a rehabilitation programme, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said in a statement yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The self-proclaimed “best league in the world” was having a long look at itself in the mirror yesterday after Arsenal’s exit left the Premier League with no quarter-finalists in Europe’s blue riband club competition for the first time in 17 years.

(The Sports Xchange) Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade thought it was “great ..