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DURBAN,  (Reuters) – Rohit Sharma blazed a half-century  as India cantered to a 21-run win over South Africa in a one-off  Twenty20 international at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban yesterday.

HAMILTON, New Zealand, (Reuters) – Pakistan   completed a thumping 10-wicket victory in the first test over   New Zealand inside three days after they had bowled the hosts  out for just 110 in their second innings after the tea break yesterday.

MUMBAI, India, CMC – West Indies Women will be looking to make history, when their five-match One-day International series against India Women opens today at the Bandra Kurla Complex.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A half-century from Dwayne Smith failed to inspire Barbados, and they suffered another setback in their preparation for the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship, when English county Hampshire prevailed in a nail-biting, three-wicket victory on Saturday.

The sport of chess made a couple of tentative steps forward in 2010 with the formation of a regional committee, the hosting of a Federation Internationale des Echecs (FIDE) rated tournament and the staging of the national senior and junior championships among the positives.

National rugby Sevens director, Mike McCormack disclosed yesterday that the national rugby Sevens squad did not accomplish its goal, nor the goals of the teams coach, Theodore Henry at last Saturday’s trial games at the National Park.

‘Mr.Knowledge’ is no more. Saturday night, Trinidad and Tobago and the West Indies lost one the greatest servants of cricket in the region, then Michael ‘Joey’ Carew passed on at the age of 73, at his home at Warren Street Woodbrook, Port-of-Spain.

BANGALORE, India, CMC – Recovering West Indies fast bowler Jerome Taylor has quite remarkably been able to snag an Indian Premier League deal.

SYDNEY, CMC – Chris Gayle served notice on Indian Premier League bidders, when he set a new Twenty20 Big Bash record in a dashing half-century that helped to set-up a 19-run victory for Western Australia against New South Wales yesterday.

The mettle of the Guyanese players will undergo a series of tests over the next couple of weeks as the second Caribbean Twenty20 tournament bowls off tomorrow in Antigua.

BANGALORE, India, CMC – Chris Gayle will be hoping that he attracts Indian Premier League (IPL) bidders today, after he remained unsold at the players’ auction for the fourth edition of the competition yesterday.

After months of uncertainty, it appears that The Bahamas will in fact be stepping in to save this year’s Carifta Games with an announcement expected to be made by North America, Central America and Caribbean Athletics Association President Neville ‘Teddy’ McCook as early as next week.

Fiona Harris was returned unopposed as president of the Guyana Amateur Bodybuilding & Fitness Federation (GABBFF) on Friday evening when the association’s Annual General Meeting was held.

MUMBAI, India, CMC – Steady bowling followed by solid batting, led by Stacy-Ann King and Merissa Aguilleira, propelled West Indies Women to a five-wicket victory over the BCCI President’s XI in their opening match of their tour of India yesterday.

ADELAIDE, Australia, CMC – A tidy all-round performance from Kieron Pollard helped South Australia to a 55-run victory over compatriot Dwayne Bravo and Victoria in the Twenty20 Big Bash yesterday.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – A steady all-round performance from Gary Mathurin helped Windward Islands rebound from defeat, and complete a six-run victory over Leeward Islands in a warm-up match on Friday ahead of the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship.

Three table tennis coaches namely Raynor `Copter’ Anderson, Linden Johnson and Muniram Persaud, are on a training course in Trinidad and Tobago that runs from January 5 – 11.

The St Lucia Government recently honoured two of its leading sport personalities – cricketer and West Indies skipper Darren Sammy and high jump Commonwealth Games bronze medalist Levern Spencer – for the honour that their exceptional achievements brought to their country.

MADRID, (Reuters) – Lionel Messi scored a stunning freekick and helped set up two more goals as Barcelona swept hosts Deportivo Coruna aside 4-0 to surge five points clear at the top of La Liga yesterday.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – AC Milan and Flamengo reached an agreement yesterday for Ronaldinho’s transfer to Brazil’s 2009 champions, the Italian club’s vice-president Adriano Galliani said.