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(Reuters) – England Twenty20 captain Eoin Morgan’s poor batting performance in the Indian Premier League (IPL) continued as he scored only two runs in Kolkata Knight Riders’ defeat by Punjab Kings, raising concerns over his form ahead of the World Cup.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica captain Jhaniele Fowler said her side could expect a tough workout when they face Trinidad & Tobago in a three-match netball series this month.

MADRID, (Reuters) – Former Barcelona striker Luis Suarez heaped more misery on his old club as Atletico Madrid claimed a 2-0 LaLiga victory over the Catalans at the Wanda Metropolitano yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) An inspired spell of slow bowling from Prem Singh who took a hat trick saw the West Indies to victory over India as they copped the inaugural Legends World Cup T20 title in Fort Lauderdale, USA Thursday.

DUBAI, CMC – Punjab Kings defied the departure of veteran West Indies batsman Chris Gayle and held their nerve in the final over to edge out Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) by five wickets in the Indian Premier League (IPL) yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Former West Indies batting coach Toby Radford said fitness will play a critical role in the success of the Windies squad during the ICC Twenty20 World Cup from October 17 to November 14 in the United Arab Emirates and Oman.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British heavyweight Joe Joyce said yesterday that he should be handed the 2016 Olympic gold medal if his Rio de Janeiro final with Frenchman Tony Yoka was found to have been manipulated by corrupt boxing officials.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Australia captain Tim Paine said the Ashes will go ahead regardless of some England players’ reluctance to deal with tough COVID-19 quarantine restrictions.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Olympic 110 metres hurdles champion Hansle Parchment of Jamaica said he would like to finish his track & field career at the Paris Olympics in three years’ time.

(Reuters) – Golden State Warriors’ Draymond Green said it is not his place to convince team mate Andrew Wiggins to take a COVID-19 shot and described the debate surrounding vaccinated and unvaccinated players as a “political war”.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Australia’s Victoria state has included professional athletes in a vaccination mandate that will require about 1.25 million “authorised workers” to have two COVID-19 shots by the end of November.

Plans are in the pipeline for Elton Dharry and team to stage a mega Boxing Day card and it has the ‘blessing’ of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport.

Sunrisers knocked out of contention after slipping to their ninth loss this season Chennai Super Kings 139 for 4 (Gaikwad 45, du Plessis 41, Holder 3-27) beat Sunrisers Hyderabad 134 for 7 (Saha 44, Hazlewood 3-24, Bravo 2-17) by six wickets (ESPN Cricinfo) – Chennai Super Kings stormed into the playoffs with a six-wicket victory over the now eliminated Sunrisers Hyderabad.

East Coast Demerara heavyweight, Buxton United Football Club, will stage a special general assembly on Sunday, October 17, at the Friendship Primary School from 4 pm.

(CMC) – Jamaican sprinter Shericka Jackson said the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics to this year was also a blessing for her in many ways.

Ben Simmons might have expressed that he was done playing with Joel Embiid, but the Philadelphia 76ers big man refused to express the same sentiment from the third day of training camp yesterday.

(Reuters) – Brazilian soccer legend Pele left a Sao Paulo hospital after several weeks yesterday, and a hospital bulletin said he would undergo chemotherapy following the removal of a colon tumor.

(Reuters) – Irish boxer Michael Conlan said he felt vindicated by an independent report published yesterday that found evidence of corruption and manipulation of bouts at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.

(CMC) – Veteran West Indies batsman Chris Gayle withdrew from the Punjab King for the remainder of the Indian Premier League (IPL) because of bio-secure bubble fatigue.

(Reuters) – A bout manipulation system existed in boxing at the 2016 Rio Olympics, Richard McLaren, the head of the independent investigation commissioned by the sport’s world governing AIBA, said in his report yesterday.