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As the West Indies tour of England winds down, head coach Phil Simmons has lauded the efforts of the bowlers for their work over the three-Test series.

Los Angeles Clippers guard Lou Williams must complete a 10-day quarantine and will miss the first two games of the restarted season next week, the NBA announced yesterday.

LEICESTER, England, (Reuters) – Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer heaped praise on his team after they sealed a place in next season’s Champions League with a nervy 2-0 win at direct rivals Leicester City on the final day of the Premier League season.

West Indies captain, Jason Holder, has earned the ire of former fast bowler, Winston Benjamin, who has not liked the way he has treated paceman Alzarri Joseph.

Guyana’s quest to attend the Junior Pan America hockey championship in 2020 has been delayed for at least a few months after the Pan American body recently announced that the tournament will now be hosted in 2021 due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

MANCHESTER, England, CMC – Seamer Kemar Roach became only the ninth West Indies bowler to take 200 wickets in Tests but Stuart Broad lashed the joint third fastest half-century for England before returning to snatch two wickets, to help put the Caribbean side on the ropes in the decisive third Test here yesterday.

Kemar Roach became the first West Indian in 26 years to reach 200 Test wickets, a feat he described as “heartwarming.”

Colin Ming, an avid golfer, who attained a single digit handicap whilst winning several tournaments over the years and served on executive positions at the Lusignan Golf Club, has been an advocate of growing the game of golf for many years.

(BBC) Champions League qualification and the battle to avoid relegation are the major issues at stake as the Premier League season concludes today.

(Reuters) – Stuart Broad’s experiment to adopt Australian great Shane Warne’s stance at the crease paid off yesterday as he smashed a quickfire half century for England on the second day of the final test against West Indies.

Zion Williamson returned to the NBA campus near Orlando and will quarantine there before joining his teammates, the New Orleans Pelicans announced Friday.

MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – England wicketkeeper Jos Buttler said yesterday he had been stressing about his lack of test runs and feeling the pressure of mounting speculation about his place in the team.

Former New York Knicks assistant Tom Thibodeau is finalizing a deal to return to the club as head coach, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported yesterday.

(Reuters) – Members of the WNBA’s New York Liberty and Seattle Storm teams, in protest of racial inequality, walked to their respective locker rooms during the playing of the U.S.

(Reuters) – Hapless Sassuolo had four goals disallowed for offside, three of them following VAR reviews, in an unlucky 2-0 defeat by Napoli in Serie A yesterday.

(Reuters) – Manchester United’s current crop of players should look at the club’s tradition and rich history to inspire them on their own journey to success, manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has said.

A requirement that players take personal responsibility for their health during the COVID-19 pandemic is included in the collective bargaining agreement reached on Friday, according to NBC Sports.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – The WTA has a strategy in place to cope with the financial strain caused by the COVID-19 pandemic but chief executive Steve Simon thinks the elite women’s Tour will not return to any semblance of normality before 2022.

(Reuters) – Bologna coach Sinisa Mihajlovic would rather Serie A was not played next season if it meant more matches without fans, he said yesterday.

At long last.  The four boxers who were stranded in Cuba for the past 126 days are finally back on Guyana’s soil.