Sports

(Reuters) – Los Angeles Lakers shooting guard Kobe Bryant become the youngest player to score 30,000 NBA career points during the first half of Wednesday’s game against the New Orleans Hornets.

Defending champion of the Guinness Greatest of the Streets Competition, Back Circle along with Leopold Street, won their respective semi final games, one-nil on Tuesday night at the National Cultural Centre tarmac and will battle for the $600,000 first prize when the final is staged on Saturday.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC- Stylish right-hander Marlon Samuels stroked his fifth One-Day International century as West Indies beat Bangladesh by four wickets yesterday to halt a two-game losing skid, and haul themselves back into the five-match series.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC-Trinidad and Tobago football coach, Hudson Charles, says the inclusion of Jamaal Shabazz as a second head coach will bolster the soca warriors chances as they compete in the finals of the 2012 Caribbean cup in Antigua from tomorrow.

BARCELONA, (Reuters) – Barcelona’s Lionel Messi was carried off on a stretcher after sustaining what the club said was bruising to his left knee near the end of the La Liga side’s Champions League Group G match at home to Benfica yesterday.

(WICB) St John’s, Antigua – West Indies batting star Shivnarine Chanderpaul has made a return to the top of the International Cricket Council’s Test Match Batting Rankings.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The suspended Indian Olympic Association (IOA) defied the IOC and went ahead with its controversial election to pick a tainted official as its new secretary-general yesterday.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – South Africa want to use their recent series win in Australia as a stepping stone to cement their position as the world’s dominant test team and to build something “really special”, captain Graeme Smith said yesterday.

(BBC) England’s bowlers again made light of losing the toss as the tourists had the better of the first day of the third Test against India in Kolkata yesterday.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Italian jockey Frankie Dettori has been banned from riding in French races for six months after a positive dope test at Longchamp, the French racing authority said yesterday.

(Reuters) – The Oklahoma City Thunder cruised to their sixth straight win on Tuesday after an incredible night of shooting earned them a 117-111 victory over the Brooklyn Nets.

YOKOHAMA, Japan,  (Reuters) – Prompted into action by England midfielder’s Frank Lampard’s disallowed goal against Germany at the 2010 World Cup, FIFA will use goal-line technology for the first time in Japan this week.

By Iva Wharton The Ministry of Sport needs to do more for the development of track and field athletes, says President of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG), Colin Boyce.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates,  CMC- Veteran West Indies’ cricketer Shrivnarine Chanderpaul has replaced Australia captain Michael Clarke as the top Test batsman in the world.

BANGALORE, India, CMC-West Indies lost to defending champions Pakistan in their second match of the T20 Cricket World Cup for the Blind, in Bangalore, India, yesterday.

(BBC) India captain Mahendra Dhoni is predicting a good wicket that will not unduly favour spin when his team play England in the third Test in Kolkata today.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Public funding of nine billion pounds ($14.5 billion) for the London Olympics was money well spent after a successful Games, Britain’s National Audit Office (NAO) said in a report yesterday.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Australia paceman Peter Siddle has hit back at criticism of his omission for the third and final test against South Africa, saying his participation would have risked a long-term injury that might have ultimately hurt his side more.

The West Indies Cricket Board yesterday said it had received and accepted the 14-man Guyana Squad for the 2013 Caribbean T20 as provided by the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB).

Regal XI beat Herstelling by 32 runs while their Over-40 team defeated Floodlights by 46 runs, and Mike’s Wellwoman won against Trophy Stall Angels in the Female final in the just concluded Guyana Floodlight Softball Cricket Association Nationwide Tournament.