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(Reuters) – Hampshire will become the first English county to be owned by an overseas franchise after signing an acquisition agreement with Indian conglomerate GMR Group, the county championship club said yesterday.

PARIS, (Reuters) – France midfielder Antoine Griezmann announced the end of his international career yesterday after being coach Didier Deschamps’s most important player for a decade, during which he won a World Cup title.

(Reuters) – Basketball Hall of Famer Dikembe Mutombo has died at the age of 58 from brain cancer, the NBA said on Monday.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Lynford Inverary has been named as Cricket West Indies’ (CWI) new chief operations officer (COO) and will also serve as interim chief executive officer (CEO) until the post is filled in 2025.

KANPUR, India,  (Reuters) – Records tumbled as India launched a batting blitz to overtake Bangladesh’s first innings total of 233 in 28 overs, injecting fresh life into the rain-marred second test in Kanpur yesterday.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Former West Indies captain Sir Richie Richardson was lauded for his contribution to West Indies cricket during the recent launch of the biography, “Richie Richardson: The Man and the Legacy.”

– Guyana secures top spot thanks to net run rate Nicholas Pooran’s purple patch with the bat continued as he unleashed a brutal assault on the Guyana Amazon Warriors bowling unit last night, as the Knight Riders triumphed by 74 runs at the Providence National Stadium in the final match of the league stage of the Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL).

(Reuters) – Travis Head took 4-28 as Australia strangled England with spin before launching a rapid pursuit of their target with rain in the air to clinch the One-Day International series 3-2 following a 49-run win via Duckworth-Lewis-Stern in Bristol yesterday.

(Reuters) – Tottenham Hotspur’s Brennan Johnson, Dejan Kulusevski and Dominic Solanke got on the scoresheet in a 3-0 victory over 10-man Manchester United in the Premier League yesterday as the visitors ran roughshod over the bedraggled home side.

(CMC) – Jemimah Rodrigues cracked a half century and Pooja Vastrakar grabbed three wickets as India Women beat West Indies Women by 20 runs in their warm-up T20 match yesterday ahead of the upcoming Women’s T20 World Cup.

(Reuters) – Sri Lanka crushed New Zealand by an innings and 154 runs to complete a 2-0 series sweep yesterday, quelling some late fightback from the tourists in the second test in Galle.

Melanie and Beterverwagting (BV)/Triumph played to a 1-1 draw when the East Coast Demerara Senior Men’s League continued last evening at the Buxton Community Centre ground.

(Reuters) – Atletico Madrid’s Angel Correa bundled home an equaliser deep into added time against Real Madrid to snatch a 1-1 draw yesterday in a nervy LaLiga derby that was suspended for just over 20 minutes after the home fans hurled objects onto the pitch.

Beavers climbed atop the standings in the West Demerara Football Association Senior Men’s League, dismantling Uprising by a 3-0 score yesterday at the Uitvlugt Community Centre ground.

(Reuters) – Ross Adair scored a century, and his younger brother Mark took four wickets as Ireland beat South Africa by 10 runs yesterday in the second of their Twenty20 internationals to tie the two-match series.

(CPL) – The top two sides in this year’s Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL) duked it out in Providence, with the reigning champions, the Guyana Amazon Warriors, winning by a sizeable 35-run margin against their nearest rivals at the top of the table, the Saint Lucia Kings.

Pan American Hockey Challenge Guyana secured an historic bronze medal in the Pan American Hockey Federation Challenge, defeating hosts Bermuda in the third-place playoff yesterday at the National Sports Centre.

– will also pay US$5000 for each Nations League win Director of Sport Steve Ninvalle has confirmed that President Dr.

Defending champion St. Pius, as well as Santa Rosa and Tapakuma Lake, tallied comfortable wins when the Courts Pee Wee U-11 Boy’s Football Championship resumed yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground on Carifesta Avenue.

Uitvlugt maintained their perfect record in the West Demerara Football Association Senior Men’s League, dismantling Belle West by a 3-1 score yesterday.