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Leather prevailed over willow and bowlers capitalised on poor batting as hosts Guyana defeated the Windward Islands by 103 runs in their opening Group B encounter of the Regional Super50 limited overs competition for the Clive Lloyd Cup at the Guyana National Stadium ground yesterday.

CENTURION, South Africa,  (Reuters) – Ricky Ponting scored a classy half-century as Australia humbled South Africa by 93 runs on the Duckworth/Lewis method in the first one-day international yesterday.

(Reuters) – Taufeeq Umar compiled his sixth test century to put Pakistan in complete control after the second day of the first test against Sri Lanka in Abu Dhabi yesterday.

By Emmerson Campbell Gwendolyn ‘Stealth Bomber’ O’Neil along with Iwan Azore and Clive ‘Wonder Kid’ Atwell are officially part of the ‘Thirst Park Explosion’, a Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) card which is scheduled to be held on October 29.

By Iva Wharton The Guyana Open Golf tournament which was launched yesterday at Banks DIH, Thirst Park has attracted a diverse group of participants.

Guyana’s World ranked number 43 squash player Nicolette Fernandes, yesterday won a bronze medal at the XVI Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, chef-de Mission Noel Adonis reported.

Georgetown, Guyana – The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) yesterday announced that the

LONDON, (Reuters) – Manchester’s two-pronged assault on the Champions League finally sprang to life on Tuesday when United won their first match of the campaign by beating Romanians Otelul Galati 2-0 away and City left it until stoppage time to beat Villarreal 2-1.

 (Reuters) – England called up Graham Onions to the squad for the remainder of the one-day internationals in India after fast bowler Chris Woakes was ruled out with a thigh strain  yesterday.

Following are the latest results of the Guyana Floodlights Cricket Association (GFSCA) Bakewell-sponsored 10/10 and T20 competitions played last Sunday at various grounds.

The opening Group A match of the 2011 West Indies Super50 Championship between joint defending champions Barbados and the Sagicor High Performance Center (HPC) team at the Everest Cricket Club ground was delicately poised  yesterday before rain intervened and the game ended up being ruled a no contest.

The Regional Super50 limited overs tournament bowls off today in Guyana at 09:00 hours and West Indies Cricket icon Clive Lloyd, for whom the winning  cup is named, is confident the tournament will be an exciting one.

National cycling captain Robin Persaud rode off with the feature senior 25-lap event at the October Cycle Fest 15-race meet at the Amelia’s Ward Circuit in Linden last Sunday.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Ricardo Teixeira has dominated Brazilian soccer for so long that, like many of the best players, he is known by just one name.

CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh, CMC – West Indies were shockingly routed for 61, their second lowest score ever in One-Day Internationals, as they crashed to a humiliating eight-wicket defeat to Bangladesh in the third and final ODI here yesterday.

Gladiators played undefeated to be the only team to qualify for Bartica in the Super 16 stage when the Mackeson Smooth Moves 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament continued last weekend in Bartica and Berbice.

A really confident Guyanese contingent will depart this morning at 03:00hrs from the National Gymnasium to take part in the 2011 Inter-Guiana Games (IGG) scheduled for October 19-23 in Suriname.

By Emmerson Campbell “Cycling comes first in our lives” –  more or less that sums up the focus of the hugely successful California-based five-man team that competed here for the first time in the recent five-stage 266-mile Ride for Life cycle road race in Guyana.

Plans are on stream for next month’s Guyana Teachers’ Union/Ministry of Education National Schools Track & Field, Cycling and Swimming Championships, according to union president Colin Bynoe.

(BBC) Fifa president Sepp Blatter is preparing to perform an extraordinary U-turn by calling for the release of court documents which could reveal that senior officials at the world governing body took bribes.