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The 2012 Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) two-day Inter- County Under-15 tournament is set to bowl off in April.

By Iva Wharton For Dexter Marques talk is cheap it is action that matters.

By Carwyn  Holland The first leg of the inaugural National Grasstrack Racing Club championship got underway last Sunday at the Goed Fortuin Ground with entertaining Dirt Bike racing from the leading riders in Guyana.

Guyana’s Golden Jaguars four-game Caribbean tour which forms part of the training and developmental plan ahead of stage-three of the CONCACAF FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014 qualifier, which begins on June 8th with a clash against Mexico, has been bearing fruit despite the hat-trick of defeats so far.

(Reuters) – South Korea has declared a “state of emergency” against match-fixing allegations tarnishing a number of domestic sports leagues and has issued a package of measures aimed at tackling sports-related corruption.

Nets Basketball Club outmuscled Macabees Basketball Club to clinch the league opener of the 2012 Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) league when the competition tipped off last Saturday at the outdoor Burnham Basketball Court.

Five of Guyana’s junior tennis players will be selected by the Guyana Tennis Association to compete at the internationally renowned annual 16-and-under Junior Davis Cup and  Junior Fed Cup tennis tournaments to be held in the Dominican Republic next month.

DURBAN, South Africa, CMC – West Indies batting star Chris Gayle has been diagnosed with a grade two groin injury, leaving his campaign in the domestic Twenty20 Challenge in doubt.

(Reuters) – India once again wilted against quality pace bowling as Sri Lanka defeated them by 51 runs in the eighth match of the one-day Tri-series at the Gabba in Brisbane yesterday.

(Reuters) – Kevin Pietersen’s second successive century led England to a four-wicket victory over Pakistan and a series whitewash after the fourth and final one-day international in Dubai yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados have left out pacer Fidel Edwards from their 13-man squad for their fourth round match in the Regional Four-Day Championships against Combined Campuses and Colleges starting here Friday.

The winger Ricky Shakes and mid-fielder Howard Newton were  the Golden Jaguars players to score over the weekend, as they aided their clubs Ebbsfleet United and St.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – David Rudisha is proud to be a 800 metres world champion, proud to be a world record holder but as much as anything is proud of being a Maasai and desperate to secure a first Olympic gold medal for his tribe later this year.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The battle against discrimination in soccer moves to Downing Street today when British Prime Minister David Cameron and Jeremy Hunt, the sports minister, meet senior soccer officials and representatives from anti-discrimination groups.

Linden’s Amelia’s Ward Football Club sent Buxton Stars packing after dropping three goals on the East Coast natives when the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Super League tournament continued last Sunday in Linden at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground.

Guyana’s national cricket team, basking in the euphoria of their hard-fought,  four-wicket win over the Combined Campuses and Colleges team in the just concluded third round of the West Indies Cricket Board’s (WICB) Regional Four-Day competition, will receive a timely boost with the additions of Ramnaresh Sarwan and Trevon Griffith.

The Guyana national rugby team has one of its  toughest tasks ahead as they prepare for the HSBC Sevens World Series in Hong Kong from March 23-25.

MUNICH,  (Reuters) – British boxer David Haye is wanted for questioning by German police over his brawl with fellow British heavyweight Dereck Chisora following a WBC title clash in Munich on Saturday, a police spokesman said  yesterday.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates,  CMC – West Indies Under-19s will open their campaign in the Youth World Cup against former champions India, when the tournament opens in Australia later this year.

(BBC) Asafa Powell and Usain Bolt to go head-to-head in Rome in May Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell will take on compatriot Usian Bolt at the Golden Gala in Rome in May, meeting organisers have confirmed.