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NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Virender Sehwag’s world record score in one-day internationals will remain under constant threat from the swashbuckling opener himself, according to the Indian batsman’s coach.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Pace bowler Varun Aaron yesterday became the second Indian cricketer to be ruled out of the away test series against Australia because of an injury.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Chris Gayle will be a non-starter for Jamaica in the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship next month.

Hikers and national livewire Robert France aided in a fitting opening to the seventh Diamond Mineral Water International Hockey Festival at the National Gymnasium yesterday when his team cooled down Supernova 12-1.

A day after the Kashif and Shanghai Organisation issued a statement denying that it propagates the policies of any political party, a picture surfaced on the social network Facebook of co-director Kashif Muhammad wearing a PPP/C jersey.

 INDORE, India, (Reuters) – Virender Sehwag (219)  blasted the highest individual score in 50-over cricket to  secure India’s comprehensive 153-run series-clinching victory  over West Indies in the fourth one-dayer yesterday.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former captain Daren Ganga has been dropped from the Trinidad & Tobago team to take part in next year’s Caribbean Twenty20 Championship, beginning on January 9 in Antigua.

(Reuters) – FIFA’s head of security believes games at  this year’s U.S.-based

Devon Ford scored a brilliant hat-trick to lead Banks DIH Football Club to victory over Grove Hi Tech in the East Bank Demerara Football Association first division final sponsored by Coca-Cola at Thirst Park ground last Wednesday.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – West Indies assistant coach David Williams has been made a senior national selector.

INDORE, India, (Reuters) – The 10 highest  one-day international totals after India reached their best ODI  score of 418-5 against the West Indies yesterday.

INDORE, India,  (Reuters) – The 10 highest one-day international  innings after India’s Virender Sehwag scored 219 against the West Indies in the  fourth ODI match yesterday.

MADRID, (Reuters) – The most dangerous team  without the ball, counter-attack kings Real Madrid, host lords  of possession Barcelona tomorrow  in a titanic  clash of footballing philosophies.

VENICE, Italy,  (Reuters) – UEFA president Michel  Platini reiterated his opposition to goal line technology on  Thursday, saying it would only be needed once every 40 years and  could lead to “video refereeing”.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Australia’s cricket governing  body will recommend its entire board step down in accordance  with an independent review that criticised its structure as  being riven with conflicts of interests.

(Reuters) – A week, as former British Prime  Minister Harold Wilson once quipped, is a long time in politics,  though New Zealand captain Ross Taylor and his young team have  also discovered that it also applies to test cricket.

CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh, (Reuters) – Batsman  Younus Khan warned Bangladesh to get ready to face yet another  onslaught from Pakistan’s feared spinning attack as the teams  got ready for the two-test series that begins in Chittagong today.

MADRID, (Reuters) – Jose Mourinho wants to prove  there has been a shift in the balance of power towards his Real  Madrid side when the La Liga leaders host bitter rivals  Barcelona in the opening ‘Clasico’ of the campaign tomorrow.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – National Basketball  Association (NBA) players and owners ratified a new collective  bargaining agreement yesterday, formally ending a five-month  lockout and ensuring the season will start on Christmas Day.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – A swashbuckling finish  yielding five birdies in six holes catapulted Rory McIlroy up  the Dubai World Championship leaderboard yesterday as he  seized the early initiative in his European money-list battle  with Luke Donald.