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Guyanese and West Indies cricketer Tremayne Smartt has been slapped with a five-month ban by the ICC for a doping violation under Article 2.1 of the ICC Anti-Doping Code after she used a prohibited drug for an injury.

Cotton Tree Die Hard cricketers Jagdeo Persaud and Shazad Gafoor delivered outstanding performances when the 2011 New Building Society Second Division Cricket Competition continued over the weekend.

Guyanese football official Noel Adonis has been suspended for 30 days by FIFA over ethics violations in the  run-up to the world governing body’s presidential election  earlier this year.

(Reuters) – Mahela Jayawardene became the ninth  batsman to pass 10,000 runs in one-day internationals but could  not prevent Sri Lanka losing to Pakistan in the third game of  the series at the Dubai International Stadium yesterday.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Dale Steyn was the  architect of another Australian batting collapse as South Africa  ended the second day of the second test yesterday trailing by  just 30 runs with all 10 second-innings wickets intact.

CANBERRA, (Reuters) – Australia will impose  tough new penalties of up to 10 years in jail for match-fixing  and betting on fixed matches after a meeting of the country’s  national and state law ministers, Sports Minister Mark Arbib  said yesterday.

Defending champions Broad Street whipped Retrieve of Linden 4-0 but it was West Front Road who was the most clinical when they routed Plaisance 8-0 at the Albouystown Court on Thursday night.

FATULLAH, Bangladesh, CMC – West Indies Women stormed to their third straight win of the ICC Women’s World Cup qualifiers, when they crushed minnows Japan by 10 wickets yesterday.

(Reuters) –The National Basketball Association (NBA) season may be in danger of  being wiped out by a bitter labour dispute already five months old but the big bucks will keep  rolling in for LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade and a select few of the game’s biggest  stars.

Chavez Ageday exhibited true power sprinting yesterday as he claimed the boys under-20 100 metres yesterday at the 51st National Schools Athletics, Cycling and Swimming Championships at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence.

With the euphoria flowing from the historic success of the Golden Jaguars who recently defeated Trinidad and Tobago to advance to the third round of the 2014 World Cup Qualifiers, the achievements of the Under-17 and Under-20 Lady Jaguars outfits seemed to have paled alongside their senior male counterparts.

The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) is threatening to pull its players from the current Carib/Pepsi T20 tournament if organiser Robin Singh alters the list of  players selected by the board but Singh rebutted last night that the BCB is not following the spirit of the competition.

Kolkata, India, CMC – Despite a brilliant hundred from the talented Darren Bravo and a determined half-century by Marlon Samuels, West Indies lost the second Test by an innings and 15 runs with a day and a session to spare as India took a winning 2-0 lead in the three-match series.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – Jacques Kallis became the fourth leading run-scorer in tests as he passed 12,000 runs but South Africa ruined the party by being bowled out for 266 on the first day of the second test against Australia yesterday.

By Iva Wharton Guyanese boxing promoter Carwyn Holland has been appointed Vice-President of the newly-formed Caribbean Promoters Association (CPA) which was formed eight months ago, according to its president Trinidadian Jason Fraser.

The large gathering was encouraged throughout the lively goal fest at another night of the Guinness Greatest-of-the-Street football tournament at the National Cultural Centre tarmac on Tuesday night.

KOLKATA, India  (Reu-ters) – Yuvraj Singh’s test career stuttered again yesterday when the left-hander, a regular match-winner in one-day cricket, was dropped from the Indian team for the third and final test against West Indies.

SAVAR, Bangladesh, CMC – A five-wicket haul from off-spinner Anis Mohammed and unbeaten half-centuries by Stafanie Taylor and Deandra Dottin, spurred West Indies Women to an eight-wicket win over Pakistan Women in a key second round Group B match of the ICC Women’s World Cup Qualifier here yesterday.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former West Indies cricket captain Brian Lara and former Trinidad & Tobago footballers Dwight Yorke and Russell Latapy will be inducted into the First Citizens Sports Foundation Hall of Fame during a ceremony at the Hyatt Regency Trinidad on November 23.

The University of Guyana’s inaugural scrabble competition started this week and Julian Cadogan, Makeisha Archer, Lorraine Carter and Alicia Pollard all took first round victories in the senior common room of the university.