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ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Legendary fast bowler Sir Curtly Ambrose has lauded the Ricky Skerritt administration for immediately confronting and attempting to fix the player issues facing West Indies cricket.

(Reuters) – On a warm July 1983 day in the Colorado mountains, a slender American woman literally reached the peak of female sprinting when she smashed the women’s 100 metres world record that German athletes had owned for a decade.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Former Australia captain Allan Border said on Tuesday he cannot even imagine the prospect of hosting this year’s Twenty20 World Cup at empty stadiums due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies Test captain Jason Holder says he hopes to leave a legacy of being one of the greats in the longest format, but is cognizant of the need to sustain very high standards if he is to achieve that goal.

First-vice president of the Guyana Lawn Tennis Association (GLTA), Cristy Campbell, isn’t at all worried about the short-term impact of the ongoing global pandemic on the sport locally. 

MUMBAI, India, CMC – Lingering hopes that this year’s Indian Premier League could evade the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic continued to slowly fade, with the Indian Cricket Board (BCCI) conceding Monday the future of the lucrative tournament remained “hazy”, in light of yesterday’s much anticipated national address by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – South African batsman AB de Villiers has said that if the Twenty20 World Cup scheduled for October in Australia was postponed to next year then that could end his hopes of returning to the national side.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Cycling teams are gearing up for the Tour de France to be held in August rather than the usual July, after French President Emmanuel Macron said big public events would be halted until mid-July as the country fights the COVID-19 pandemic.

West Indies female all-rounder, Shabika Gajnabi, is confident she will dominate if and when Cricket West Indies’ Women’s Super50 tournament plays.

The plan by Rickey Skerritt, President of Cricket West Indies (CWI), to involve regional governments in the grassroots development of cricket has received approval from a CWI affiliate.

Georgetown Cricket Club’s Devon Lord, like many who enjoy the gentleman’s game locally, dreams of one day earning his maiden Guyana Jaguars cap.

World number one Rory McIlroy has said that staging the Masters in November may boost his quest to win a career Grand Slam.

As sportsmen and sportswomen across the globe continue to create innovative measures to train indoors during the covid19 pandemic, Olympic-bound cyclist Nicholas Paul has been able to adjust his intense training schedule within the confines of his home in south Trinidad.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – A decision to invest in cricket nets at his home has paid dividends for West Indies marquee left-hander, Darren Bravo, especially with the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic having halted competitive cricket in the Caribbean.

The Chicago Bulls fired longtime general manager Gar Forman yesterday, the same day they made official the hiring of Arturas Karnisovas as executive vice president of basketball operations.

(Reuters) – European champions Portugal will donate half of their prize money for qualifying for the now-postponed Euro 2020 championships to support amateur football amid the coronavirus outbreak, the team said yesterday.

(Reuters) – If you are Laura Wilkinson, a 42-year-old mother making your return to competitive diving after under-going spinal fusion surgery, a year delay in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics is not a bad thing — it’s a gift.

The 2020 NFL Draft will be presented by both ESPN and NFL Network on April 23-25, the league announced yesterday.

Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert downplayed that he and teammate Donovan Mitchell are feuding after a report last week that said the relationship between the two All-Stars was not “salvageable.”

Former West Indies youth captain Zaheer Ali believes more details should have been given in the TT Cricket Board’s (TTCB) Red Force head coach vacancy advertisement.