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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.  

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Points standings in the Regional Super50 championship following Thursday’s matches in Group-B:  GROUP-A Guyana 6 points Barbados 2 West Indies High Performance Centre 2 Windward Islands-2 GROUP-B Jamaica 8 Combined Campuses & Colleges 4 Trinidad & Tobago 0 Leeward Islands –2 NOTE: In the new Super50 Points System, teams can pick up hefty Super Bonus Points for scoring at over six runs per over and bowling out the opposition for under 150 runs.

By Treiston Joseph in Suriname Guyana was embarrassed last night in their best of three series football tournament with Suriname at the Inter Guiana Games at the Andre Kamperveen Stadium in Suriname.Their

(Reuters) – Taufeeq Umar hit his maiden test double  century as Pakistan turned the screw on Sri Lanka on the third  day of the first test in Abu Dhabi yesterday.

MOHALI, India, (Reuters) – India pulled off a  thrilling five-wicket victory over England with four balls to  spare in the third one-day international yesterday to take an  unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-match series.

GUADALAJARA, (Reuters) – Cuba’s volleyball women beat  arch-rivals the United States 3-1 in a highly charged semi-final  at the Pan-American Games on Wednesday to keep their title  defence on track.

Leather prevailed over willow and bowlers capitalised on poor batting as hosts Guyana defeated the Windward Islands by 103 runs in their opening Group B encounter of the Regional Super50 limited overs competition for the Clive Lloyd Cup at the Guyana National Stadium ground yesterday.

CENTURION, South Africa,  (Reuters) – Ricky Ponting scored a classy half-century as Australia humbled South Africa by 93 runs on the Duckworth/Lewis method in the first one-day international yesterday.

(Reuters) – Taufeeq Umar compiled his sixth test century to put Pakistan in complete control after the second day of the first test against Sri Lanka in Abu Dhabi yesterday.

By Emmerson Campbell Gwendolyn ‘Stealth Bomber’ O’Neil along with Iwan Azore and Clive ‘Wonder Kid’ Atwell are officially part of the ‘Thirst Park Explosion’, a Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) card which is scheduled to be held on October 29.