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The Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) and its coaching staff will be relying heavily on a large group of young players to help carry the team’s load this season and in the foreseeable future. 

Cycling action returns to Linden today for the fourth LonLam Cycling Classic.

Titans Table Tennis Club duo Jasmine Billingy and Samara Sukhai both extended their growing reputations by recording success in the ongoing West Indies LTD.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Opening batswomen Alyssa Healy and Beth Mooney scored glittering half-centuries as a ruthless Australia crushed India by 85 runs to win a record-extending fifth Women’s Twenty20 World Cup in front of a heaving Melbourne Cricket Ground yesterday.

(Reuters) – England’s Jofra Archer is likely to miss the Indian Premier League (IPL) as national team coach Chris Silverwood wants the fast bowler to play cricket with Sussex to get up to speed before the home test series against West Indies in June.

(Reuters) – Bangladesh opening batsman Tamim Iqbal has been named the team’s new one-day international (ODI) captain, replacing Mashrafe Mortaza who stepped down earlier this week, the country’s cricket board (BCB) said yesterday.

TAROUBA, Trinidad,, CMC – A ruthless Trinidad and Tobago Red Force dealt a heavy blow to Barbados Pride’s title quest with a crushing 147-run victory here yesterday.

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada,  CMC – West Indies players Andre Fletcher and Sunil Ambris carved out half-centuries in a pivotal century partnership as Windward Islands Volcanoes won for only the second time this season with a two-wicket victory over Jamaica Scorpions.

SEVILLE, (Reuters) – Real Madrid failed to build on last week’s ‘Clasico’ victory as they lost 2-1 at Real Betis in a fiery match yesterday and surrendered top spot in La Liga to Barcelona.

ROME, (Reuters) – Italy’s Serie A league was criticised by the country’s sports minister Vincenzo Spadafora yesterday for being “irresponsible” after ignoring his request to call off the day’s matches and suspend the competition over the coronavirus outbreak.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Fit-again all-rounder Hardik Pandya returned to India’s one-day squad yesterday but opener Rohit Sharma, who is recovering from a calf injury, was left out of the three-match series against South Africa beginning next week.

Harrison, NEW JERSEY,  (Reuters) – The United States defeated Spain 1-0 in a hard-fought battle in front of a sold-out crowd at Red Bull Arena yesterday, with a late-game header into the net by Julie Ertz sealing the match on the second leg of the SheBelieves Cup tournament.

(Reuters) – Ronaldinho Gaucho, the former Brazil and Barcelona soccer star being held in a Paraguayan jail for using a falsified passport, is being investigated for additional crimes, the prosecutor leading the case said yesterday.

Anthony Davis had 30 points and eight rebounds, and the Los Angeles Lakers snapped the host Los Angeles Clippers’ six-game winning streak with a 112-103 victory yesterday.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Australia’s pugnacious wicketkeeper-batswoman Alyssa Healy has another claim for bragging rights in her famous cricketing family after starring in her team’s fifth Women’s Twenty20 World Cup triumph on Sunday.

Three Leeward Islands batsmen scored half centuries on the penultimate day to establish a first innings lead of 94 over Guyana Jaguars at the close of play at the Providence National Stadium ground yesterday.

Defending champions Berbice cruised to their first win of the Guyana Cricket Board/Superbet 50-over senior female Inter-County tournament, defeating Essequibo by 10 wickets while Demerara handed the Select U19 side a massive defeat. 

National sportsmen Leon Johnson and Shemar Britton have used their social media platforms to call for unity among Guyanese as the country faces ethnic tensions stemming from the recent General and Regional Elections. 

Chairman of the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) competition committee Shaun Massiah says the issues surrounding Guyana’s ongoing General and Regional elections fiasco have influenced the stalling of cricket in the capital city. 

ST JOHN’s, Antigua, CMC – Barbadian umpire Gregory Brathwaite has been named among the match officials for today’s final of the Women’s T20 World Cup in Australia.