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By Charwayne Walker When Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) right-hander Tevin Imlach reached his maiden regional first-class century against Jamaica at the Providence Stadium last Friday, he was continuing a great club tradition which started when the late Maurice Pacheo Fernandes scored the first century by a DCC batsman for Guyana at the regional level.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Guyana Harpy Eagles pacer Ronsford Beaton has been suspended from bowling in the West Indies Championship by Cricket West Indies with immediate effect.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, (Reuters) – The International Olympic Committee yesterday rejected claims by the International Boxing Association that the Olympic body had misused information regarding boxing officials.

Scheduled for a grand opening on Saturday, the West Side Golf Course, located at Crane, in Region Three, will bring many firsts to the region and Guyana.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach was wrong to argue that Russian and Belarus athletes can return to international competitions because they already compete without friction in some sports, Ukrainian tennis player Marta Kostyuk said yesterday.

(Reuters) – FIFA yesterday stripped Indonesia of the right to stage this year’s Under-20 soccer World Cup, over what an Indonesian official said was a failure to honour its commitments to the tournament.

Desmond Bane scored 31 points and Xavier Tillman added a career-high 20 as the Memphis Grizzlies extended the NBA’s longest active winning streak to seven games with a 113-108 victory over the visiting Orlando Magic on Tuesday.

(Reuters) – England captain Ben Stokes is set to start his Indian Premier League (IPL) campaign with the Chennai Super Kings as a specialist batter after having an injection in his troublesome left knee, the team’s batting coach Mike Hussey said.

MADRID, (Reuters) – Real Madrid’s Spanish-born wonderkid Alvaro Rodriguez has opted to play for the Uruguay national squad, his father Daniel told Cadena SER radio station yesterday.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Two-time Twenty20 World Cup winner, Johnson Charles and speedster Alzarri Joseph were among the big movers in the ICC Twenty20 International Rankings released yesterday.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, CMC – A scintillating unbeaten cameo at the back end from all-rounder Romario Shepherd and an outstanding career-best five-wicket haul by fast bowler Alzarri Joseph, combined to fire West Indies to a seven-run victory and their first Twenty20 International series win over South Africa in nearly a decade here yesterday.

The Golden Jaguars ended their Concacaf Nations League campaign with a scoreless draw against Montserrat last evening at the Wildey Turf Stadium, Wildey, Barbados.

Demetrius De Abreu, Zachary Persaud, Safirah Sumner and Ethan Bulkan all played unbeaten to win their respective categories when the curtains came down on the Kraft Heinz Junior Squash Tournament Monday evening after seven days of competition at the Georgetown Club.

Guyana’s Clifton Moore has been chosen to participate in the upcoming International Boxing Association online One Star Coaching Course.

By Troy Peters Multi-talented sportswoman Makeda Harding has been appointed captain of Guyana’s National Under-21 women’s  hockey team to participate in the Junior Pan American Hockey championships next month in Barbados.

The Flying Ace Cycle Club (FACC) of Berbice was yesterday the recipient of a quantity of cycling equipment from overseas-based Guyanese Mark Coleman.

MIAMI, Florida, CMC – Captain and veteran forward Joevin Jones earned Trinidad and Tobago a point against Nicaragua but the hosts still missed out on promotion, while St Kitts and St Lucia earned convincing wins to move up in the CONCACAF Nations League on Monday.

Nikola Jokic had 25 points, 17 rebounds and 12 assists for his 29th triple-double of the season, leading the host Denver Nuggets to a 116-111 victory over the short-handed Philadelphia 76ers on Monday night.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – Defending champions Senegal, Burkina Faso, South Africa and Tunisia added their names to the list of qualified teams for next year’s African Cup of Nations finals after away successes in yesterday’s qualifiers.

Guyana registered a perfect 2-0 record in the Boys U19 section, while the Boys U15 teams suffered mixed results respectively when the Caribbean Region Table Tennis Federation (CRTTF) Junior Championship continued on Tuesday.