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CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh,  CMC – Veteran West Indies left-hander Shiv Chanderpaul stroked a breezy 33 but Dwayne Smith failed to score as Khulna Royal Bengals went down to Barisal Burners by four wickets in the Bangladesh Premier League here yesterday.

(Reuters) – South Africa clinched the Twenty20 international series against New Zealand after Marchant de Lange claimed two wickets in an eventful final over to seal a thrilling three-run victory in the third and final match in Auckland yesterday.

(Reuters) – Miami’s reserves starred in a critical late-game stretch to hand the Heat their seventh consecutive victory with a 120-108 home win over the Sacramento Kings on Tuesday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Combined Campuses and Colleges have made just one change to their 13-man squad for their fourth round clash in the Regional Four-Day Championship against Barbados starting here tomorrow.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – New York Knicks head coach Mike D’Antoni is looking forward to some rare downtime following this weekend’s All-Star game that will give him a chance to fit all the moving pieces of his team together for the second half of the season.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates,  CMC – West Indies have continued to languish at number eight in the One-Day Internationals, in the latest International Cricket Council rankings released on Tuesday.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The inaugural edition of India’s Premier League Soccer (PLS), featuring World Cup winner Fabio Cannavaro and former France international Robert Pires, has been postponed because of a lack of venues, organisers told Reuters yesterday.

Following are the latest results in the Guyana Floodlight Softball Cricket Association’s (GFSCA) Hadi softball league following last week-end’s matches.

ROSEAU, Dominica,  CMC – Captain Merissa Aguilleira produced a responsible knock to guide West Indies to a four-wicket win over India in the third Twenty20 International of the five-match series here yesterday.

By Carwyn Holland Barbadian Shawn “The Sniper” Cox and Guyanese Wayne “Big Truck” Braithwaite are both promising victory after the two met face-to-face for the first time yesterday in the boardroom of the Abdool and Abdool Incorporated office on Avenue of the Republic.

Two weeks ago a delegation from the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) met with representatives of several clubs in West Berbice and committed the Board to host a one- day cricket academy and several coaching sessions for youth cricketers.

General Secretary of the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association Kester Gomes is of the opinion that the current GABA league will be great for basketball in Guyana.

The 2012 Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) two-day Inter- County Under-15 tournament is set to bowl off in April.

By Iva Wharton For Dexter Marques talk is cheap it is action that matters.

By Carwyn  Holland The first leg of the inaugural National Grasstrack Racing Club championship got underway last Sunday at the Goed Fortuin Ground with entertaining Dirt Bike racing from the leading riders in Guyana.

Guyana’s Golden Jaguars four-game Caribbean tour which forms part of the training and developmental plan ahead of stage-three of the CONCACAF FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014 qualifier, which begins on June 8th with a clash against Mexico, has been bearing fruit despite the hat-trick of defeats so far.

(Reuters) – South Korea has declared a “state of emergency” against match-fixing allegations tarnishing a number of domestic sports leagues and has issued a package of measures aimed at tackling sports-related corruption.

Nets Basketball Club outmuscled Macabees Basketball Club to clinch the league opener of the 2012 Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) league when the competition tipped off last Saturday at the outdoor Burnham Basketball Court.

Five of Guyana’s junior tennis players will be selected by the Guyana Tennis Association to compete at the internationally renowned annual 16-and-under Junior Davis Cup and  Junior Fed Cup tennis tournaments to be held in the Dominican Republic next month.

DURBAN, South Africa, CMC – West Indies batting star Chris Gayle has been diagnosed with a grade two groin injury, leaving his campaign in the domestic Twenty20 Challenge in doubt.