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MELBOURNE, Australia, CMC – A nasty on-field confrontation with star Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne  yesterday plunged West Indies all-rounder Marlon Samuels into controversy yet again.

When the cycling season pedals off later this month, gold medalist at last year’s Junior Caribbean Cycling Champ-ionships, Paul DeNobrega, will no longer be a junior but will be looking to sound his arrival on the senior circuit and aim for the 2016 Olympic Games.

The newly formed Guyana Baseball League (GBL) is preparing to participate in the Pan American Under-15 tournament this year and is looking to recruit players to fill 20 spots on four representative teams, a press from the GBL has stated.

Reigning national featherweight, lightweight and junior welterweight CABOFE champion, Clive ‘Wonder Kid’ Atwell had an exemplary 2012 but is looking to raise the bar even further in 2013.

Port-of-Spain, Trinidad – The Caribbean T20 2013 tournament got off to a colourful start with a carnival-like opening ceremony at the Queen’s Park Oval yesterday.

(BBC) India gave themselves a boost ahead of their series with England by winning a thrilling third and final one-day international against rivals Pakistan yesterday.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Talismanic West Indies Women off-spinner Anisa Mohammed will be targeting 100 wickets when the opening One-Day International against South Africa bowls off here today.

BRISBANE, (Reuters) – An emotional Andy Murray fought back tears and dedicated his victory to “a sick friend” after defeating Grigor Dimitrov in a gripping Brisbane International final yesterday.

(Reuters) – Tony Parker and the San Antonio Spurs maintained course with a swagger in their bid for supremacy in the hotly contested Western Conference with a 109-86 rout of the road-weary Philadelphia 76ers on Saturday.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Michael Hussey ended his test career on a high when Australia beat Sri Lanka by five wickets with a day to spare in the third test yesterday to sweep the series 3-0.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica played to a no result in the opening match of the Caribbean Twenty20 at Queen’s Park Oval here Sunday.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Shane Warne has been fined A$4,500 ($4,700) and banned for one game after a heated row with Marlon Samuels in a match in Australia’s domestic Twenty20 competition on Sunday night ended up with bats and balls being thrown.

MELBOURNE, Australia,  CMC – A nasty on-field confrontation with star Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne today plunged West Indies all-rounder Marlon Samuels into controversy yet again.

(Barbados Nation) Julian Hunte  is about to pull stumps on his tenure as West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) president.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Michael Hussey ended his test career on a high today when Australia beat Sri Lanka by five wickets with a day to spare in the third test to sweep the series 3-0.

Young Tagenarine Chanderpaul yesterday scored an unbeaten half century to guide the President’s XI to a six wicket victory over defending champions GT&T Berbice in a match of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Inter-County competition at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) ground in Queenstown.

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Inter County limited overs match between Demerara and Essequibo at the Everest Cricket Club ground saw Essequibo threatening to score the first upset of the competition before  convention had the final say and Demerara prevailed by five wickets.

Just a few years ago, Dominique Vincente was just a fan in the bleachers, watching some of the capital city’s top school players.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – A full house is expected to watch hosts Trinidad and Tobago launch the defence of their Caribbean Twenty20 title when the championship bowls off here tonight.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Government here has approved a national Strategic Plan for Sports which it says will help “transition sports into a full-fledged industry”.