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The Gregory ‘Jackie Chan’ Richardson Benefit Football Series will commence this evening at 18:00hrs at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground, Bourda.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Cricket West Indies (CWI) yesterday announced the match schedule and venues for the West Indies Academy home series against Ireland Academy.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Leeward Islands Hurricanes have elevated West Indies fast bowler Alzarri Joseph to captain for the West Indies Super50 Cup, starting Tuesday in Trinidad.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Hosts Trinidad & Tobago Red Force have packed their side with familiar faces for this year’s West Indies Super50 Cup, which opens Tuesday.

The Guyana Cricket Board senior selection panel yesterday named the Guyana Harpy Eagles squad for the upcoming CG Insurance Regional Super50 competition with experienced left-arm orthodox spinner Veerasammy `Gunna’ Permaul and batsman Tevin Imlach the captain and vice-captain respectively.

Low-scoring but thrilling clashes were the highlight of the opening night of the Guyana Hockey Board’s (GHB) first-division men and women’s leagues at the Providence National Stadium on Sunday night.

In the wake of the recently concluded Senior Inter-County tournament, all eyes including the national cricket selectors, should have been on Richie Looknauth, the talented all-rounder who displayed exceptional prowess with both bat and ball. 

(Reuters) – New Zealand roared to a second successive win at the World Cup as they beat the Netherlands by 99 runs in Hyderabad yesterday, with left-arm spinner Mitchell Santner capturing five wickets after impressing with the bat earlier.

Cougars and Paradise Invaders battled to a 2-2 stalemate when the Berbice Football Association Senior Men’s League continued on Sunday evening at the Rosignol Community ground.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Former West Indies Under-19 batsman Brad Barnes and little known left-arm pacer Shalom Parnell were named in the Jamaica Scorpions squad to defend the West Indies Super50 Cup, starting on October 17 in Trinidad.

(Reuters) – Formula One’s governing body will take action to protect drivers from the sort of extreme heat and humidity they suffered during Sunday’s Qatar Grand Prix, it said yesterday.

HYDERABAD, India, (Reuters) – Spinner Maheesh Theekshana is set to play today’s World Cup match against Pakistan after recovering from a hamstring strain, assistance coach Naveed Nawaz said yesterday.

DHARAMSALA, India, (Reuters) – Ben Stokes is set to miss today’s match against Bangladesh but England captain Jos Buttler is more concerned with the outfield in Dharamsala, which he thinks is not ideal for World Cup matches.

DOHA, Qatar, CMC – British race car driver Lewis Hamilton said he accepted responsibility for the collision with Mercedes teammate George Russell that put him out of the Qatar Formula 1 Grand Prix on Sunday.

ZURICH, CMC – Cricket looks set to return to the Olympic Games after more than a century.

HANGZHOU, China,  (Reuters) – With no major security incidents and a record gold medal haul for its athletes, China will regard the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou as a soft power triumph that ticked a number of political, sporting and operational boxes for the hosts.

By Michaelangelo Jacobus Last night, the Guyana Hockey Board (GHB) launched its Farfan & Mendes men and Woodpecker Products Limited, women’s first division field hockey leagues at the Providence National Stadium.

BRISBANE, Australia, CMC – Captain Hayley Matthews was missing and so was West Indies Women’s spark as they crashed to a humbling eight-wicket defeat to Australia Women in the opening One-Day International of the three-match series here yesterday.

Berbice brushed aside Georgetown by a 4-1 score when the 2023 edition of the Thunderbolt Flour Power Under-17 Academy Football Championship continued yesterday at the National Training Center in Providence.

CHENNAI, India, (Reuters) – India launched their home World Cup campaign with a six-wicket victory over Australia after Virat Kohli and KL Rahul guided them through a jittery run chase yesterday.