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Queen’s Park Cricket Club opener Runako Morton slammed an aggressive 126 to lead his team into the final of the Premier Division Sunday League 50-over competition following their easy nine-wicket win over T&TEC Sports in the semi-final of the tournament at Inshan Ali Park, Preysal.Morton

Garfield Wiltshire, a former three-time Southern Caribbean squash champion was down to play former Under-19 Caribbean girls’ singles champion Ashley Khalil last night at the Georgetown Club in the Guyana Squash Association annual Bounty Farm Limited Handicap squash tournament.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Red hot off-spinner Sunil Narine is among 30 players expected to arrive here Thursday to begin a two-week training camp in preparation for the upcoming Australia series.

Coach of Guyana’s national football team, better known as the ‘Golden Jaguars’, Jamaal Shabazz, is  optimistic regarding the efforts of his troops after the team lost their first competitive international for 2012, 2-0, at the hands of Central American side Guatemala at the Providence Stadium  on Wednesday evening.

By Emmerson Campbell The national men’s Sevens rugby team, fresh off being declared joint Bowl winners at the recently concluded Las Vegas Invitational Sevens tournament, held their first beep test (multi-stage aerobic fitness test) yesterday to gauge the fitness of their players who  will be representing Guyana at the HSBC Sevens World Series in Hong Kong from March 23 to 25.

Amid the cricket imbroglio here, the Guyana team is currently in fourth place on 24 points in the seven-team league of  the 2011/12 regional first-class season and coach Esaun Crandon is full of praise for the leading batsmen and hoping that his side can improve.

(Reuters) – U.S. sprinter Mike Rodgers has accepted a nine-month ban for a failed drug test but will still be able to compete in the London Olympics if he qualifies, the U.S.

KARACHI,  (Reuters) – Former test spinner Iqbal Qasim will head a revamped Pakistan national selection committee after the one-day series defeat to England last month, officials said yesterday.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – World number one Novak Djokovic beat fellow-Serb Janko Tipsarevic 6-1 7-6 in the quarter-finals of the Dubai Tennis Championships yesterday to set up a meeting with Andy Murray in the last four.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Companies will try to piggyback this year’s London Olympics to win themselves free advertising, despite some of the strictest rules ever, by upstaging rivals paying millions of pounds to be official sponsors, a survey said yesterday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Jeremy Lin was given a helping hand by fellow point guard Baron Davis as the New York Knicks made good use of their newly discovered depth to roar past the Cleveland Cavaliers 120-103 on Wednesday.

(Reuters) – New Zealand batsman Jesse Ryder and paceman Doug Bracewell have been handed one-match bans for going out drinking while recovering from injury and being goaded into a verbal slanging match with a patron at a local pub.

KARACHI, (Reuters) –  Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Amir will not appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against a five-year ban for his involvement in a spot-fixing scandal, an International Cricket Council (ICC) spokesman said yesterday.

BERNE,  (Reuters) – Bahrain’s 10-0 win over Indonesia in a World Cup qualifier on Wednesday is to be examined by FIFA’s security department, soccer’s governing body said yesterday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Arjen Robben provided an emphatic response to his critics with a match-winning performance against England on Wednesday.

Goals from striker Mynor Lopeez and midfielder Guillermon Ramirez propelled Guatemala to a 2-0 victory over a 10-man Guyana in the nation team’s first official International friendly for 2012, at the Providence Stadium last night.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Organisers for the week of activities to celebrate the 60th birthday of the country’s only living national hero, Sir Vivian Richards, have announced the inclusion of former West Indies captain and record holder for the highest First Class score, Brian Lara.

(Reuters) – Hashim Amla missed out on a 10th century but still guided South Africa to a comfortable six-wicket victory over New Zealand in their second one-day international in Napier  yesterday, sealing the series with a game to spare.

The Guyana Football Federation has laid out its terms and conditions to applicant Alpha United which is interested in joining the  federation.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – India selectors have rested opening batsman Virender Sehwag and pace duo Zaheer Khan and Umesh Yadav from the country’s squad for next month’s Asia Cup one-day international competition in Bangladesh.