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Former national twenty20 captain Ramnaresh Sarwan has not been considered for selection on the Guyana Twenty20 team for next month’s regional competition.

By Emmerson Campbell Last year’s second place finisher in the Kashif and Shanghai tournament, Pele, have  already commenced   preparations for this year’s 22nd annual K&S tournament in their quest to secure their second title.

Action in the third annual Guinness-in-the-Streets football tournament will continue with the commencement of the Round-of-16 stage this evening at the National Cultural Center Tarmac from 7:00pm.

In two days the seventh Diamond Mineral Water International Hockey Festival will bully off at the National Gymnasium and while some of the local teams have mixed expectations about results at the conclusion, the tournament is expected to improve and expose emerging talents.

Local distance queen Alika Morgan  shrugged off her disappointing run at the South American 10 kilometres road race held here recently to capture the Caribbean championship at the Barbados 10k run last Saturday.

(Reuters) – The International Olympic Committee (IOC) have refused to confirm media reports that former FIFA President Joao Havelange has resigned days before an ethics hearing into his conduct.

Throughout the history of all professional sports there have been many “David versus Goliath” type contests when an underdog team defies the odds and topples the superior opponent.

National chess champion Taffin Khan is almost assured of retaining his title when the final two rounds of the competition are held this Saturday at the Ocean Spray International Hotel.

AHMEDABAD, India, CMC – Sachin Tendulkar, still in search of his elusive 100th international century, is likely to play in the last two limited overs matches against West Indies, after being rested for the first three.

(Reuters) – Puerto Rico’s Miguel Cotto avenged his controversial loss to Antonio Margarito three years ago when he beat the Mexican on Saturday to retain his World Boxing Association (WBA) super-middleweight world title.

(Reuters) – Brazil’s 1982 World Cup captain Socrates, the “Golden Heel” renowned as one of the great playmakers of his generation, died in a hospital Sunday of septic shock at the age of 57.

(Reuters) – Tiger Woods ended a frustrating victory drought of just over two years when he clinched the Chevron World Challenge which he hosts by one shot yesterday, holing a six-foot birdie putt at the last.

The Guyana National Industrial Corporation (GNIC) yesterday completed an outright over Everest Cricket Club in their Noble House Seafoods second division cricket competition yesterday at Camp Road.

By Emmerson Campbell Imran ‘Magic’ Khan and his teammates continued their march on the road to the 2102 London Olympics Games, turning in impressive performances at the inaugural Ronald Wilson Memorial tournament which ended Saturday night in Barbados.

An all-round team effort by Third Class helped them to pull off a one wicket victory over Ace Warriors yesterday in their Noble House Seafood second division cricket match  at the Guyana National Industrial Corporation (GNIC) Sports Complex ground.

Inspired bowling by Damien Vantull led the University of Guyana (UG) to first inning points over Gandhi Youth Organization (GYO) in the Noble House Seafood second division competition yesterday at the GYO ground, Woolford Avenue.

AHMEDABAD, India, CMC – With West Indies under pressure to beat India and keep the five-match One-Day International series alive, team coach Ottis Gibson reckons there is some comfort in the fact that they have fought well against the world champions.

BRISBANE, (Reuters) – Debutant pace bowler James Pattinson ripped through New Zealand’s top order in a brilliant morning spell to fire Australia to an emphatic nine-wicket victory with more than a day to spare in the first test  yesterday.

Gizmos and Gadgets Georgetown Pitbulls and the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) President’s XI will lock horns today in the final of Carib Beer/Pepsi Twenty20 competition at the Albion Community Centre Ground.

As popular, Caribbean and appropriate as it was at the time, David Rudder’s converted anthem “Rally Round the West Indies” is wearing a little thin for cricket supporters despairing over whether there will ever be a revival.