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From Treiston Joseph  in Suriname Guyana’a Inter Guiana games track and field team had a successful final training session yesterday morning at the Andre Kamperveen Stadium in preparation for today’s athletic events.

Co-defending champions Barbados suffered a second consecutive rain-affected mach of the regional Super 50 one day tournament yesterday after their Group A encounter against the Windward Islands at Everest Cricket Club was washed out.

The Guyana and Sagicor High Performance Centre match was rained out and umpires cancelled the game at about 1.15pm without a ball being bowled yesterday at the Guyana National Stadium.

ABU DHABI, (Reuters) – Kumar Sangakkara yesterday led Sri Lanka’s fightback in the second innings with an unbeaten 161, aided by sloppy Pakistan fielders who dropped a number of catches on day four of the first test in Abu Dhabi.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – England paceman Tim Bresnan has been fined 7.5 percent of his match fee for showing dissent in the third one-day international against India at Mohali, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said yesterday.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Paceman Umesh Yadav has been ruled out of the remaining two one-day internationals against England after suffering a hand injury during the match in Mohali.

Ricky Ponting says that not being Australian captain means he now has time to mentor the squad’s exciting young talent.

Georgetown, Guyana – Jamaica’s crushing victory over the Leeward Islands pushed their partner club – Skeldon Cricket Club – to the top of the money pile in the WICB Super Club Assistance Programme which is part of the on-going Regional Super50.

Lydia Greenway and Arran Brindle both struck unbeaten centuries as England’s women powered to a 62-run win over South Africa in the opening one-day international at Potchefstroom.

New Zealand fast bowler Chris Martin is poised to become the fourth bowler in the country’s cricket history to take 200 Test wickets.

From Treiston Joseph in Suriname Guyana marginally lost to French Guiana in their first basketball encounter at the 2011 Inter Guiana Games (IGG) held in Suriname at the Anthony Nesty Stadium.

Approximately 30 FIFA accredited local referees and assistant referees as well as national referees and assistant referees will attend a FIFA sponsored Referees Assistance Programme (RAP) held in collaboration with the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) and the Guyana Football Referees Council (GFRC).

The Roraima Bikers Club and the Humphrey family said yesterday that the 14th Annual Troy Humphrey Memorial Cycle Race Meeting planned for today will now be held on Wednesday.

Kyle Mayers and Floyd Reifer guided the Combined Colleges and Campuses (CCC) to a comprehensive upset five-wicket victory over Trinidad & Tobago at the Everest ground yesterday in the Regional Super50 Group B match.

The Chris Gayle-led Jamaican side made light work of the co-defending champions Leeward Islands  as they clinched a thoroughly convincing seven-wicket victory in a Group B encounter of the 2011 Regional Super50 limited overs competition at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence, yesterday.

By Emmerson Campbell Bronze medallist at the recent 28th World Masters Power Lifting Championships, John ‘Big John’ Edwards says that despite not winning the gold medal, he is proud of his achievement. 

By Iva Wharton Guyana’s female heavyweight boxing champion Gwendolyn O’Neil says her match against Pauline London is one of the things she is doing to warm-up for her upcoming match with Nigerian Ijeoma Egbunine but her main reason for returning home is family.

The Guyanese athletes got a chance to size up their competitors when the opening ceremony of the 2011 Inter-Guiana Games (IGG) was held at the Andre Kamperveen Stadium in Suriname yesterday.

Guyana will take to the track tomorrow in defence of their male title while the females seek to  reclaim theirs when the Track and Field segment of the 2011 Inter-Guiana Games runs off at the Andre Kamperveen Stadium in Suriname.

(Reuters) – World number one Luke Donald seized an  early advantage in his title duel with Webb Simpson by charging  into a seven-way tie for the lead in yesterday’s opening round  of the Disney Classic at Lake Buena Vista in Florida.