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WELLINGTON,  (Reuters) – Ross Taylor will take a break from cricket after rejecting an offer to remain captain of New Zealand’s test team but give up the role in the shorter forms of the game, New Zealand Cricket said yesterday.

Boxing fans will now have the opportunity to see Elton ‘Coolie Bully’ Dharry and Rudolph Hedge cuff off in the ring on December 28th when the two clash on a card organized by Hurry Up Promotions in collaboration with Elton ‘Coolie Bully’ Dharry and Pearl Vodka.

ZURICH,  (Reuters) – FIFA’s ethics committee has completed its latest investigation into former presidential candidate Mohamed bin Hammam and extended his provisional ban pending a final verdict, soccer’s world governing body said yesterday.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC- Nicholas ‘The axeman’ Walters is seeking to become the first Jamaican to win a world title on home soil when he fights with Daulis Prescott of Colombia in a World Boxing Association featherweight bout tomorrow night.

Bronze medallist at this year’s Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Bodybuilding Championships and reigning overall and welterweight champion of this year’s Hugh Ross Classic, Kerwin Clarke, intends to pose and flex his way to supremacy at tomorrow’s Flex Night International.

The Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP) has organised the ‘Scrabblers Give Back Charity Open Tournament’ on Sunday at the Malteenoes Sports Club.

Over 100 students were successful when the Guyana Karate College (GKC) held its end of year grading examinations last Friday.

(BBC) Captain Alastair Cook set a record for England Test centuries with his 23rd as the tourists assumed control of the third Test against India yesterday.

DHAKA, Bangladesh,  CMC– Bangladesh yesterday called up left-armer Elias Sunny in an attempt to bolster their spin attack for the final two one-day internationals against West Indies.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC-Former Trinidad and Tobago defender, Brian Williams, says a good performance for the soca warriors at the Caribbean Cup finals in Antigua will help restore pride and rekindle a struggling sport.

ROSEAU, Dominica,  CMC- Host country Dominica and St. Lucia were locked in battle after day one Wednesday of their two-day third and final round encounter of the 2012 Windward Islands senior cricket championship.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Jamal Crawford once again sizzled off the bench as the Los Angeles Clippers pounded the struggling Dallas Mavericks 112-90 with a commanding display on their home court on Wednesday.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Shane Warne has done it again. One of the most successful slow bowlers of all time, Warne has consistently shown since his retirement from international cricket in 2007 that he is also the master of a different type of spin.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia recalled top order batsman Phillip Hughes to replace the retired Ricky Ponting yesterday for next week’s first match in a three-test series against Sri Lanka.

YOKOHAMA, Japan, (Reuters) – Japan’s Sanfrecce Hiroshima beat part-timers Auckland City 1-0 in the opening game of the Club World Cup yesterday when FIFA used goal-line technology for the first time.

YOKOHAMA, Japan, (Reuters) – FIFA president Sepp Blatter has expressed his “sadness and distress” after a linesman died following an incident during a youth competition earlier this week.

-GCB holds press conference After months of legal wrangling with the government, the Guyana Cricket Board held a press conference yesterday at the GCB Office, Regent Road, Bourda where Senior Selector Reon Griffith said he was confident that the best team was selected to represent Guyana at the upcoming Caribbean Twenty20 tournament.

The Edward B. Beharry Group of Companies yesterday handed over a Toyota Allex car to the organisers of the annual Kashif and Shanghai Football tournament at the company’s Charlotte Street Head Office.

Cellphone giant Digicel yesterday handed over a cheque valued at $500,000 to the Guyana Squash Association to assist players travelling to the Cayman Islands for the Women’s World Open Squash Championship.

(Reuters) – Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene has warned his team to be wary of a backlash from Australia in their three-test series after the hosts were stung by their series defeat to South Africa earlier this week.