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The third round of matches in the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB)/SVC/Precision Services Inc.

With the first round of the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers pencilled to commence in March, the Golden Jaguars have been seeded in pot 3 of the second round, which is scheduled to kick off in June.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) women’s football team has made a big splash in the ongoing transfer window as they have acquired the services of Fruta Conquerors star duo and Lady Jaguar internationals Jalade Trim and Sandra Johnson.

Platinum Side and Hururu secured third place in the men and women segments, respectively, of the ‘One Guyana’ King and Queens Beach Football Championship last evening at the PPP office compound in Mackenzie, Linden.

(CMC) – West Indies Twenty20 star Andre Russell has expressed disappointment with the lack of Caribbean Premier League and Twenty20 World Cup matches in Jamaica this year.

(ICC) The pinnacle ICC men’s T20 event will see a record 20 teams divided into four groups competing across 55 games for the right to be crowned ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Champions 2024, including co-hosts the West Indies and the USA, together with the other qualifiers: Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, England, India, Ireland, Namibia, Nepal, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Oman, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea (PNG), Scotland, South Africa, Sri Lanka and Uganda.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – David Warner was denied the chance to score the match-winning runs in his final test but contributed 57 as Australia cantered to their victory target of 130 runs to beat Pakistan by eight wickets and sweep the series 3-0 last night.

(Field Level Media) Anthony Edwards scored a game-high 24 points, Karl-Anthony Towns tallied 22 points as part of a well-rounded performance and the visiting Minnesota Timberwolves rolled to a 122-95 win over the Houston Rockets yesterday.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Mario Zagallo, who won four soccer World Cups for Brazil as either player or coach, including the 1970 side considered by many to be the best ever, has died, according to a post on his official Instagram account yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Mottley has lauded the country’s “high level of organisation” after Kensington Oval was awarded the final of this year’s Twenty20 World Cup.

(Field Level Media) Jalen Brunson scored 29 points, Quentin Grimes added 19 and Isaiah Hartenstein had 17 as the New York Knicks handily defeated the host Philadelphia 76ers 128-92 yesterday.

Christopher and Heesan DaSilva, a Canada-based Guyanese couple have made significant strides in realising their vision of bringing a golf course to life in the Timehri area.

ROME,  (Reuters) – Italy’s highest court cleared the late Agentine soccer legend Diego Maradona of tax evasion charges, ending a 30-year-long legal battle between the ex-Napoli striker and revenue authorities.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Coach Fernando Diniz will no longer be in charge of the Brazil national team, said the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) yesterday.

(ESPN) Australia have replaced India as the No.1-ranked Test team in the ICC rankings.

With the registration of the D-UP Basketball and Football Academy Friendly Society, young people in Cornelia Ida, Tuschen, and Parika on the West Coast Demerara (WCD) and East Bank Essequibo , Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara), will now have access to sports training activities, a release from the Ministry of Labour said yesterday.

MELBOURNE, Australia,  CMC – Test batsman Peter Handscomb has been named to captain a 12-man Cricket Australia squad announced by national selectors to face West Indies in a three-day match starting next week in Adelaide.

Associations in the county of Demerara will head into the first action of 2024 when the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB)/SVC/Precision Services Inc.

The highly anticipated final of the Guyana Football Federation’s (GFF) Elite  League Promotional Playoff between Slingerz and Monedderlust football  clubs has been rescheduled to tomorrow night along with a change of venue.

(Reuters) – The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) hit back yesterday at reports it turned a blind eye to positive tests by Spanish athletes and said it was investigating the National Anti-Doping Organisation of Spain (CELAD).