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COLOMBO, (Reuters) – New Zealand fast bowler Tim Southee and all-rounder Rob Nicol will travel to Kandy to join up with the squad after staying back in Colombo due to illness, the side’s media manager Ellery Tappin said yesterday.

KARACHI,  (Reuters) – Banned Pakistan cricketers Salman Butt and Mohammad Amir have been signed by local television channels for special Twenty20 World Cup shows during the tournament which opened in Sri Lanka  yesterday.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Australia are finally coming to terms with the demands of Twenty20 cricket after failing to take the shortest form of the game seriously, World Cup captain George Bailey said yesterday.

ST.JOHN’S , Antigua, Sep 18, CMC– Management consultant Michael Muirhead has been appointed the new Chief Executive Officer of the West Indies Cricket Board, (WICB) the regional governing body for the sports announced on Tuesday.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka,  CMC – West Indies opening batsman Chris Gayle said he is pleased with the overall performance of his team which defeated Afghanistan by eight wickets before its opening game of the ICC Twenty tournament in Sri Lanka this weekend.

(BBC) The fourth ICC World Twenty20 begins today when the hosts Sri Lanka take on Zimbabwe in Hambantota (15:00 BST).

(Cricinfo) A day before the World Twenty20 begins in Sri Lanka, India’s bowlers failed to defend 185 in a warm-up game yesterday after R Ashwin had reduced Pakistan to 91 for 5.

(Cricinfo) England’s recent five-match ODI series against Australia was generally condemned as so inconsequential that it is quite possible to argue that this warm-up match between the Ashes rivals ahead of World Twenty20 had considerably more significance.

NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC -The Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations (BAAA) has launched its plans for the hosting of the 41st Edition of the Carifta Games.

(Cricinfo) Ross Taylor’s whirlwind half-century went in vain as New Zealand lost to South Africa by nine runs in their second warm-up match in Colombo yesterday.

-Digicel lauded for  coming on board The annual National School’s, Cycling, Swimming and Track and Field Championships will be held in November the organizers stated yesterday.

By Emmerson Campbell President of the Guyana Teacher’s Union (GTU) Colin Bynoe has promised that this year’s 52nd annual National School’s Cycling, Swimming and Track and Field Championships will be better coordinated than last year’s staging.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Michael Phelps and Allyson Felix were named as the United States Olympic Committee’s (USOC) best athletes for 2011-12 yesterday for their gold-medal performances at the London Olympics.

-threatens legal action against WICB PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC-The arbitrator in a dispute between former West Indies middle order batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan and the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has refuted claims by the WICB that he did not allow Sarwan to be cross examined.

The Scotia bank/Pepsi All Stars female football team will play their first practice game this afternoon at the Georgetown Football Club ground against a GFC U11/13 boy’s team from 4.30pm.

KHULNA, Bangladesh, CMC- Kyle Hope, who scored a double century for the Sagicor High Performance Centre against the Bangladesh Cricket Board Academy, says he wants the achievement to be the start of bigger and better things in his playing career.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka,  CMC- Chris Gayle yesterday struck a boundary filled 65 to lead West Indies to an easy eight-wicket victory over Afghanistan in their final warm-up fixture ahead of the ICC Twenty tournament starting in Sri Lanka this week.

Junior star riders Paul De Nobrega, Raynauth Jeffrey, Raul Leal and Michael Anthony continue to make Guyana proud by making the Golden Arrowhead fly high on foreign soil.

Ron Motilall and Anthony Drayton are the early leaders after four rounds of the Topco 2012 National Junior Championship Chess Qualifiers played on Sunday at the Kei-Shar’s Sports Club, Hadfield Street.

KHULNA, Bangladesh,  CMC– Kyle Hope made hay before the rain came, plundering an impressive double hundred, as the Sagicor High Performance Centre continued their run feast against the Bangladesh Cricket Board Academy here yesterday.