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The Leeward Islands held on for a draw against defending champions Windward Islands in their rain-marred third round match in the WICB Three-day Under-19 tournament at the Bourda ground yesterday.

Jamaica continued their dominant showing in the West Indies Cricket Board three-day under-19 tournament when they defeated Barbados by nine wickets at the Enmore Community Centre ground yesterday.

NOTTINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – England  captain Andrew Strauss has promised no repeat of the “silly”  jelly-bean incident that occurred the last time his team met  India in a test match at Trent Bridge four years ago.

Long distance queen Alika Morgan has seemingly returned to good form, copping two victories in the three-stage marathon held in Trinidad and Tobago last weekend.

SHANGHAI,  (Reuters) – Ryan Lochte became the first  swimmer to break a long course world record since controversial  polyurethane swimsuits were banned last year while James  Magnussen ended a far longer Australian wait at the world  championships yesterday.

KILLARNEY, Ireland, (Reuters) – Jeev Milkha Singh  eclipsed the big names in yesterday’s Irish Open first round with  an exhilarating eight-under 63, but the Indian player’s feats  failed to overshadow U.S.

NOTTINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – England  paceman Chris Tremlett is a fitness doubt for the second test  which starts today while opponents India will be without  their number one swing bowler Zaheer Khan.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – National Basketball Association (NBA) officials and locked out  players are expected to meet in New York next week as they try to resolve the contentious labor  dispute threatening the upcoming season.

STOCKHOLM,  (Reuters) – Jamaica’s Usain Bolt will be  doing his all to make it third time lucky when he races the 200  metres at the Diamond League meet in Stockholm today having  lost on his previous two outings in the Swedish capital.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Ronaldinho scored a  hat-trick as Flamengo overcame a three-goal deficit to beat  South American champions Santos 5-4 away in an extraordinary  Brazilian championship match.

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – As many as 132 food inspectors  will be deployed to prevent any food contamination during the  world championships beginning in the South Korean city of Daegu  at the end of next month, local media reported yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – The AFC went into lockdown  yesterday in the wake of their president Mohamed Bin Hammam  being banned for life by FIFA, with security refusing to allow  Reuters entry to their headquarters ahead of an executive  committee meeting.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – The first major World  Cup milestone on the road from Soccer City to “Soccer Country”  will be reached tomorrow when the draw for the preliminary  round of the 2014 finals takes place in the home of five-times  world champions Brazil.

 KARACHI, (Reuters) – Pakistani  selectors rested some of their key players for next month’s  tour of Zimbabwe and included three uncapped players in the  touring squad yesterday.

Colin Klass, president of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF), said yesterday that the GFF will not be responding to FIFA over the next 48 hours since they have not been informed of such a directive.

For all his well-known capacity to ‘soak up’ and brush aside criticism of the administration of football in Guyana during his twenty-odd year tenure as President of the Guyana Football Federation, Colin Klass must surely be more than a little bit ‘jittery’ about what could lie ahead as FIFA takes unerring aim at the role which they now appear to believe that affiliates of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) played in the so-called cash-for-votes scandal that has already seen the resignation of former FIFA Vice President Austin “Jack” Warner from football and the disgracing and booting out of football of the Quatari official Mohamed bin Hanman.

Guyanese Test and One Day International (ODI) umpire Clyde Duncan passed away yesterday in Trinidad & Tobago at the age of 57 while seeking medical attention for cancer.

By Colin Benjamin Guyana 103 (Hemraj 49, Davis 4-30, Mohammed 2-25, Hosein 2-3) and 6/1 (Surujnarine 6*, Khan 0*) need 147 to beat Trinidad 191 and 64 (Adams 5-16, Motie-Kanhai 3-0, Beaton 2-23) On a day in which spin exposed the faltering techniques and temperaments of both batting sides, which caused the pendulum  to swing from one team to the other, 22 wickets fell, 18 to the spinners for a total of 198 runs, and, at the close of play, Guyana were 6-1 chasing 153 for an outright win.

The national women’s hockey team preparing for an upcoming international engagement on Tuesday received sponsorship from Digicel.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Pakistan test spinner  Danish Kaneria will not be considered for national selection  until the Pakistan Cricket Board have no remaining doubts about  his integrity, the PCB told a High Court hearing Tuesday.