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KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – Left-arm spinner Veerasammy Permaul and pacer Shannon Gabriel grabbed wickets at crucial stages to fire West Indies A to a comfortable 34-run win over Bangladesh A in the second One-Day game here yesterday.

The Banks DIH sponsored Powerade Under 13 league organized by the Georgetown Football Association will kick off today with a double header at Thirst Park.

MUMBAI, India, CMC – Batting star Sachin Tendulkar agonisingly missed out on his 100th international century but Ravi Ashwin stroked a surprise maiden one to frustrate West Indies and send the third and final Test ambling toward a draw here yesterday.

Junior hockey players of the Hikers Hockey Club’s Western Union programme departed Friday for Trinidad and Tobago where they will compete in the Magnolias International Indoor tournament.

The semi-finals of the ongoing Carib/Pepsi Twetnty20 competition will take place today at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground.

(Reuters) – Rafa Nadal was eliminated from the ATP World Tour Finals on Thursday after being outgunned by an inspired Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in an absorbing late-night battle at the O2 Arena.

(Reuters) – Roger Federer completed his round-robin matches at the ATP World Tour Finals with a 6-1 3-6 6-3 defeat of American Mardy Fish at the O2 Arena on Thursday.

The Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground will come alive today when the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport hosts the final of their 2011 seven-a-side inter-block football tournament from 17:00hrs.

LONDON, (Reuters) – World number one Novak Djokovic followed Rafa Nadal and Andy Murray out of the ATP World Tour Finals yesterday when he lost to fellow Serb Janko Tipsarevic for the first time.

CABOFE cruiserweight champion, Barbadian Shawn ‘The Sniper’ Cox and Guyana’s current cruiserweight and heavyweight champion Kurt Bess will match gloves in the headliner of the Guyana Boxing Board of Control’s (GBBC) 19th edition of Guyana Fight Night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on December 17.

FATULLAH, Bangladesh, CMC – West Indies sustained their impressive showing in the ICC Women’s World Cup Qualifier with a 58-run win over Sri Lanka here yesterday as they romped to the final for an appointment with Pakistan.

Three weeks after the commissioning of the National Aquatic Centre, officials are pointing to administrative problems and the lack of an effective structure for the use of the Olympic-size pool at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara.

At a simple commissioning ceremony at the National Gymnasium on Mandela Avenue yesterday, the Guyana Volleyball Federation in partnership with the World Volleyball Federation (FIVB) opened the newly- refurbished volleyball court.

The 2011 edition of the National Table Tennis Championships scheduled to bounce off on December 9  will see a number of national players vying for supremacy during the course of the tournament.

Floodlights crushed Parika Defenders last Sunday by 76 runs to make it into the final of the over-40 category of the 2011 Bakewell Nationwide Softball Tournament scheduled for December 11 at the Ministry of Education Ground.

MUMBAI, India, CMC – India batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar hit an unbeaten half-century to remain on course for a 100th International century as batsmen again enjoyed the pitch at the Wankhede Stadium on the third day of the third and final Test against West Indies yesterday.

MUMBAI, India, CMC – Elegant stroke-maker Darren Bravo stroked his second successive century and his third in six innings to lead a fabulous West Indies batting effort against India in the third and final Test here yesterday.

MUMBAI, India, CMC – Darren Bravo admitted yesterday he had little preparation for the third Test against India because of a bout of flu.

(Reuters) – Contrasting half-centuries from Misbah-ul-Haq and Umar Akmal secured a three-wicket victory for Pakistan over Sri Lanka in the fifth and final one-day international in Abu Dhabi yesterday.

President of the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) Colin Bynoe said yesterday that his union will be looking to find ways to improve the annual schools national track and field, cycling and swimming championships.