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DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – Exciting stroke-maker Marlon Samuels has pointed to his new found maturity as the reason behind his form, since returning to international cricket following a two-year ban.

(Reuters) While Indian cricket has been plagued with unfit players in recent times, this 38-year-old still remains captain’s best bet to hold the fort.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Cricket South Africa (CSA) dismissed their president, Mtutuzeli Nyoka, yesterday after a vote of no-confidence at a board meeting. 

Renovation works continue at the Norman Singh Race Track with the double-decker grand stand getting a facelift for next Sunday’s Norman Singh Memorial Turf Club/Shariff Racing Stable horse race meet at the club’s facility at No.

Suhai Feng was still in the lead after  the sixth and seventh rounds of the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF)  Closed National Junior Chess Championships which ended at the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) building on High Street, yesterday.

Progressive partnerships and a solid half century from Windward Islands’ Johnson Charles helped the team to comfortably defeat the Leeward Islands in a practice match at the Demerara Cricket Club yesterday, mere days before the commencement of the Regional Super50 tournament on October 19.

YEONGAM, South Korea, CMC – At the stage of the season when it mattered least, McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton finally managed to grab pole ahead of today’s Korean Grand Prix.

SHANGHAI, China (Reuters) – Andy Murray pummeled Japan’s Kei Nishikori 6-3 6-0 to reach the final of the Shanghai Masters yesterday and will complete a stunning Asian hat-trick if he beats David Ferrer today.

Zone Two came from behind to win the track segment of the 2011 North Zone  Championships that concluded yesterday at the Police Sports Club ground, Eve Leary.

ZURICH, Switzerland, CMC – Football’s world governing body, FIFA, yesterday slapped a six-month ban on Jamaica Football Federation president, Captain Horace Burrell for his role in the cash-for-vote scandal and also imposed a series of sanctions on several other Caribbean officials.

By Iva Wharton Robert Cadogan, coach of the female Inter-Guiana Games (IGG) basketball team said the team he is currently working with will be the strongest ever to compete at the games.

An intense two days of  golf  is anticipated when Guyana’s  mobile telecommunications provider Digicel and the Lusignan Golf Club team up for the  third Annual Digicel Golf Classic at Lusignan Course today and tomorrow.

Travis Dowlin is back in national colours to replace the injured Ramnaresh Sarwan for the upcoming Regional Super50 tournament scheduled to begin next Wednesday here, according a statement from the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) last evening.

HYDERABAD, India, IANS-CMC – West Indies’ international Twenty20 stars could find themselves having to choose between the maroon colours and playing in the Indian Premier League, after the new dates for the lucrative T20 championship were announced yesterday.

Mercy Wing’s Shiekelle Scott was this year’s standout thrower while Tutorial High School’s (THS) Maurice Gibson maintained his dominance in the high and long jump events when East Georgetown schools clashed yesterday at the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) ground.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – West Indies coach Ottis Gibson says there is renewed self belief in the Caribbean side, following their convincing win in the opening One-Day International here Thursday.

WELLINGTON, (Reuters) – New Zealand paceman Tim Southee will miss the one-off test against Zimbabwe after failing to recover from a knee injury suffered while preparing for the Champions League Twenty20 tournament in India.

HYDERABAD, India, (Reuters) – India’s spinners wreaked havoc, after captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Suresh Raina starred with the bat, to clinch a 126-run victory over England yesterday in the first of five one-day internationals.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – Australia were too sharp for rusty South Africa as the touring side won the first Twenty20 international by five wickets with three balls to spare on Thursday.

(Reuters) – Australia test and one-day captain Michael Clarke has defended his players against match-fixing allegations after a sports agent said the country’s top cricketers were “the biggest” culprits.