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The Guyana Cricket Board has announced that the encampment for the  Under-17 team and its standby players will commence tomorrow.

MUMBAI, India, IANS/CMC – Veteran middle-order batsman VVS Laxman says India are fired up to make a clean sweep of the series against West Indies but said the hosts remained wary of a dangerous Caribbean side that played better than results had reflected.

A six-wicket haul from left-arm wrist spinner Totaram Bishun guided Gizmos and Gadgets Georgetown Pitbulls to a 79-run victory over Noble House Young Conquerors in the rescheduled penultimate Super Eight match of the 2011 Carib/Pepsi Twenty20 Competition at the Everest Cricket Club yesterday.

The final round of group stage matches in the 2011 Guinness-in-the-Streets football tournament concluded Saturday evening with the top two teams from the respective eight groups securing spots in the Round-of-16 knockout stage of the competition.

As the Guyanese football fraternity continues to toast the historic success of the national football team the Golden Jaguars which has advanced to the next round of the 2014 World Cup qualifiers two significant factors standout in the wake of the team’s ousting of Trinidad and Tobago from the World Cup qualifying series.

By Iva Wharton Pele and Western Tigers football clubs will automatically be placed in the first division league because of their absence from the Georgetown Football Association’s Banks Presidents Beer League currently in progress.

Cell Phone Shack yesterday presented an undisclosed sum of money towards the successful hosting of the Kashif and Shanghai Knockout tournament at their North Road main branch.

Berbice Football Association (BFA) officially launched the fourth annual Cheddi Jagan Memorial Football Tournament on Sunday at the Blairmont Estate Community Centre with a match between defending champions New Amsterdam United and Rosignol United.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Beleaguered Australians Brad Haddin and Mitchell Johnson helped steer their team to a dramatic two-wicket victory in the second test to level a memorable series against South Africa on yesterday.

National Senior Chess Champion Taffin Khan won all of his matches in the Geddes Grant/Seven Seas 2011 National Senior Chess Championship which began last weekend at the Ocean Spray Hotel.

Distance `King’ Cleveland Forde ran a tactically sound race yesterday to come out on top of the second leg of the South American 10 kilometres road race which started at the Police Sport Club, Eve Leary.

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) President’s XI clinched a dramatic, last-ball, one-wicket victory over North Essequibo Warriors in the scheduled final Super Eight match of the 2011 Carib/Pepsi Twenty20 competition at the Everest Cricket Club ground yesterday.

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Former president of the Dominica Football Association (DFA), Patrick John, has indicated that he is in the process of appealing a FIFA decision to ban him for a period of two years from all football related activities at national, regional and international level.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Tiger Woods delivered the knockout punch to the International team yesterday to silence critics of his early Presidents Cup selection by captain Fred Couples.

By Emmerson Campbell National cycling captain Robin Persaud closed off a successful year of events for Hassan Mohammed by speeding off with the 12th annual Diamond Mineral Water senior 50-mile cycle road race yesterday.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – Skipper Dwayne Smith smashed a commanding, unbeaten half-century and pacer Krishmar Santokie snatched four wickets in another fine bowling performance as West Indies A hit back to beat Bangladesh A by 55 runs and level the two-match Digicel Twenty20 series here Saturday night.

MIRPUR, Bangladesh, CMC – West Indies emphatically qualified for the ICC Women’s World Cup 2013 by  recording their fourth consecutive win, an 80-run triumph over Bangladesh in the World Cup Qualifier here yesterday.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – West Indies’ Kirk Edwards says he is so awe-struck by Sachin Tendulkar’s batting that he sometimes forgets to think about his own game.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Ricky Ponting scored an unbeaten half-century yesterday to keep alive Australia’s hopes of salvaging the series against South Africa on the fourth day of the second and final test at the Wanderers.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Roger Federer narrowly avoided another Jo-Wilfried Tsonga ambush in London yesterday as he began the defence of his ATP World Tour Finals title with a 6-2 2-6 6-4 victory as round-robin action began at the season-ending showpiece.