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Kenyan Alex Ekesa brought his talents back to the ‘Land of the Flying Fish’ and ran off with his third consecutive Run Barbados Marathon title yesterday.

Chinaman spinner Joshua Charles, along with pacers Emmanuel Lewis and Samuel Barkoye, contrived to bowl out West Demerara U-15 for 52 inside 17 overs to engineer a commanding win for the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA), when the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) Inter-Association U-15 Championship commenced yesterday.

(Reuters) – Cricket Australia will conduct a “thorough review” into yesterday’s abandoned Big Bash League (BBL) match in Geelong after the Melbourne Renegades-Perth Scorchers clash was called off with 6.5 overs bowled due to safety concerns about the pitch.

(Reuters) – Keacy Carty hit a half-century and Matthew Forde took three wickets as West Indies claimed a four-wicket win in the rain-affected third one-day international yesterday to clinch their first home ODI series victory over England since 1998.

For the first time in the tournament’s seven-year history, Marian Academy won the coveted MVP Sports Girls U11 Pee Wee Schools Football tournament, defeating St.

Incumbent Wayne Forde was re-elected to the helm of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF), defeating challenger and former federation boss Franklin Wilson 14-8 yesterday at the entity’s Extraordinary Congress at the National Training Centre, Providence.

By Michelangelo Jacobus The Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) Senior T20 Blast got underway yesterday at the revered GCC ground at Bourda as the East Coast Canje Pheasants and Georgetown Panthers recorded dissimilar victories.

Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) President Hilbert Foster has bemoaned the passing of West Indian great Joe Solomon, stating that the Berbice native served as an inspiration for generations of emerging cricketers, especially individuals emanating from the Ancient County.

LA Ballers, High Flyers, and MS Ballers recorded contrasting wins when the inaugural ‘One Guyana’ King and Queen Beach Football Championship commenced on Friday evening at the PPP office compound, Mackenzie, Linden.

The Run Barbados Marathon weekend switched to the scenic East Coast of the island yesterday for the staging of the Casuarina 10K, which is one of the oldest races in the Caribbean, and the popular Sleeping Giant 5K race, as Nicholas Romany and Leidy Lozano emerged victorious.

Cropper, Tain, and Fyrish will contest for the Berbice Divisional title in the Future Warriors Tape-ball Cricket Championship following their respective victories yesterday at the Port Mourant Community Centre ground.

Best remembered for his role of effecting the run out which resulted in the first drawn test match (West Indies vs Australia) in cricket history back in 1960, Guyanese legend Joe Solomon passed away in New York yesterday at the age of 93.

Former Guyana and West Indies Off-spinner Clyde Butts passed away yesterday following a vehicular accident on the East Bank of Demerara.

By Michaelangelo Jacobus The Electoral Committee (EC) of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has backpedalled on its initial decision to strip Santos FC, Police FC, Western Tigers FC and the West Demerara Football Association of their voting rights for not being in good standing as members of the GFF.

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Akeal Hosein produced a stunning hat-trick in a five-wicket haul as New York Strikers crushed Jason Holder’s Samp Army by 41 runs to storm into today’s final of the Abu Dhabi T10.

Night one of the Guyana Badminton Association (GBA)-organized Gokarn Ramdhani Memorial Tournament saw heated action in the Under 23 Men and Women Singles, Men’s Doubles, Women’s Doubles and Mixed Doubles.  

(Reuters) – Ex-New Zealand batsman Lou Vincent said he was grateful to have his life ban for match fixing relaxed by England’s cricket board (ECB) yesterday, which will allow him to be involved in domestic cricket.

The Petra Organisation’s MVP Sports Girls U-11 Schools Football tournament will come to a head today with St John the Baptist (Region 7) clashing with Marian Academy in the grand finale at the Ministry of Education Ground on Carifesta Avenue.

(Field Level Media) Joel Embiid had 38 points, 14 rebounds and four blocked shots to lift the host Philadelphia 76ers past the Atlanta Hawks 125-114 on Friday.

BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa,  CMC – Captain Joshua Da Silva finally ended a worrying rut by carving out his fourth first class hundred but West Indies-A found their massive target overwhelming and slipped to a 76-run defeat to South Africa-A in the final four-day “Test” here yesterday.