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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former West Indies captain Dwayne Bravo has likened allrounder Andre Russell to Brian Lara and Chris Gayle, and described him as the best player in T20 cricket.

Guyana’s bid to qualify for the 2021 edition of the Pan Cup in Trinidad and Tobago has been severely affected by the new global pandemic Coronavirus. 

Young Jamaican sprinter Briana Williams will have to wait another year to make her Olympic debut, but according to her coach Ato Boldon, he sees opportunity in the midst of the current climate.

Queen’s Park Cricket Club (QPCC) coach Imran Jan says that there is still a lot that a cricketer can do to improve his game during this COVID-19 lockdown.

With no live sport currently available, the Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) has partnered with cloud video production platform Grabyo to create a unique and innovative content experience for cricket fans to enjoy.

Guyana’s male badminton champion Narayan Ramdhani, for the second year running, has won the Most Valuable Player (MVP) award at King’s University in Edmonton, Canada.

If the NBA regular season resumes, it is almost “100 percent” the games will be played without fans present, ESPN’s Brian Windhorst reported yesterday.

ESPN broadcaster Doris Burke tested positive for COVID-19, but she said she is now symptom-free.

(Reuters) – World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) chief Witold Banka had a message yesterday for any athlete thinking they could take advantage of the gap in drug-testing created by the coronavirus outbreak — “we will catch you” and “eliminate you”.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Businessman Robert Hadad has been named to chair the Normalization Committee appointed by football’s world governing body, FIFA to run the affairs of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TFFA).

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Batting great Sachin Tendulkar has contributed 5 million rupees ($67,000) to India’s fight against the coronavirus outbreak, a source close to the former cricketer has confirmed.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Veteran Indian tennis player Leander Paes is contemplating extending his career by another year to bid for an eighth Olympic appearance following the postponement of the Tokyo Games to 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

(Reuters) – World Athletics is working to restart a shuttered athletics season and studying any changes that may be needed in the qualifying process for the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics, president Seb Coe said yesterday.

BELGRADE,  (Reuters) – Tennis world number one Novak Djokovic pledged one million euros ($1.10 million) to help buy ventilators and other medical equipment in his native Serbia yesterday, joining a list of other athletes in the fight against coronavirus.

(Reuters) – Seamer James Anderson says he is still hungry to play for England and has no intention of letting the coronavirus outbreak bring an end to his international career.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Australia’s soccer federation laid off most of its staff yesterday as domestic sports battled to stay afloat during the national lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus.

MUMBAI (Reuters) – The International Cricket Council (ICC) said yesterday that all qualifying events for the 2021 Twenty20 World Cup and 50-overs version in 2023 that were scheduled to be held before June 30 have been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

TOKYO/LAUSANNE (Reuters) – Officials in charge of staging Tokyo’s Olympic Games crowded around a low table inside Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s residence late Tuesday, wincing as they spoke by phone with the head of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

One of Guyana’s junior coaches, Colin France, is hopeful that Guyana can host this year’s International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Caribbean Hopes training camp in August.

With the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) now a global pandemic, basketball’s governing body, FIBA, has suspended all competitions and programmes indefinitely, forcing the possible rescheduling of the Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC) Championship and the FIBA AmeriCup Qualifiers to 2021.