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Following his election to the top post of the Georgetown Football Association [GFA] on November 2 last year, former FIFA International Referee Otis James sat down with Stabroek Sports to discuss the issues plaguing the association and his developmental plans for 2020.

SYLHET, Bangladesh, CMC – West Indies white-ball starts Lendl Simmons and Kesrick Williams played meaningful roles as Chattogram Challengers returned to their winning ways with a six-wicket victory over Khulna Tigers in the Bangladesh Premier League here yesterday.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Marnus Labuschagne scored a maiden double century to drive Australia to 454 all out before New Zealand’s openers resisted the home attack to post 63 without loss on the second day of the third test yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Grenada’s Prime Minister, Dr Keith Mitchell, has praised the “attitudinal change” of the new Ricky Skerritt-led Cricket West Indies administration, and says it is a “fundamental” departure from “arrogance” which marked the previous Dave Cameron leadership.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – West Indies Under-19s head coach, Graeme West, does not believe the side’s wretched results in last month’s Tri-Nations Series is cause for major concern.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – Dean Elgar and Rassie van der Dussen put on a century fourth-wicket stand for South Africa but England have taken charge of the second test after reducing the home side to 215 for eight at the close of the second day at Newlands yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Captain Darren Bravo and exciting all-rounder Justin Greaves both struck half-centuries as CWI President’s XI dealt a blow to Ireland’s confidence ahead of next week’s start of the three-match one-day series against West Indies, with a convincing three-wicket win here yesterday.

Albion has joined Rose Hall Town Bakewell, Port Mourant Cricket Club and Rose Hall Canje in the semi-finals of the Berbice Cricket Board/ Ramnaresh Sarwan Under-17 limited overs tournament.

(Reuters) – Indian all-rounder Irfan Pathan announced his retirement from all forms of the game yesterday, bringing the curtain down on an illustrious career which included a World Twenty20 triumph.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – India captain Virat Kohli does not endorse the idea of reducing test matches to four-day affairs and yesterday warned administrators against tinkering too much with the purest format of the game.

The annual Hamilton Green Birthday Anniversary Inter-Ward football tournament will conclude today at the National Track and Field Centre, Leonora.

The West Indies trained yesterday at the Desmond Haynes Oval as they prepare for the Colonial Medical Insurance ODI Series against Ireland.

Guyana Jaguars yesterday named their squad for the Cricket West Indies Professional Cricket League (PCL) opening round with all-rounder Kevin Sinclair and pacer, Nial Smith earning maiden call ups.

Centuries from Leon Johnson and Chandrapaul Hemraj capped off the final Guyana Jaguars warm-up match on a positive note at the National Stadium, Providence yesterday.

Topp XX secured the Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) Year-end Championship, defeating Coomacka on penalty kicks on Wednesday at the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) ground.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – In an age of sport science, expert physical conditioning and meticulous planning, watching test cricketers clumsily kick a soccer ball around as they warm up defies belief.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Shai Hope says he is under no pressure to replicate his heavy run-scoring of the last calendar year, and will continue to focus on his role in the team in order to transform West Indies into a formidable unit.

SYLHET, Bangladesh,  CMC – For the second straight day, Sherfane Rutherford found his best not good enough as his maiden Bangladesh Premier League fifty failed to save Sylhet Thunder from their second defeat in as many days here yesterday.

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Batsman Kavem Hodge has been handed the captaincy for Windward Islands Volcanoes’ first round match of the Regional four-day Championship against Barbados Pride next week.

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – South Africa’s Anrich Nortje took the vital wickets of captain Joe Root and talisman Ben Stokes as England struggled to 262 for nine at stumps on the first day of the second test yesterday.