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Guyana’s top girls’ junior swimmer Brittany van Lange is confident and excited as she gears up for her newest challenge – contesting the Pan American Games in Mexico then heading straight to Suriname for the Inter-Guiana Games.

(Cricinfo) It’s been a tough year for Bangladesh. After convincing home one-day series wins against New Zealand and Zimbabwe last year, which helped them go above West Indies in the ICC one-day international rankings, many expected 2011 to be the year Bangladesh would permanently shed the “minnow” tag.

The final day of the two matches on display, Carib Beer/Friends of Cricket Heroes Cup, two-day, first-division club cricket competition, ended in draws at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) Ground and Police Sports Club, Eve Leary, on Sunday.

By Emmerson Campbell The Guyana government will be giving financial support to the tune of US$10,000 towards the participation of the national men’s rugby team at the Pan American championships in Guadalajara, Mexico and the NACRA championships in Barbados.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – Resurgent stroke-maker Marlon Samuels is anxiously looking forward to the limited overs and Test series against Bangladesh after his superb, unbeaten century in a Twenty20 tour match on Sunday.

The Emanie Netball Club on Sunday bagged its second win of the Digicel/Guyana Netball Association senior league tournament on Sunday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Defending Schools National Champions, North Georgetown (District 11) began their stringent selection process yesterday with their inter-zone field events for the upcoming Schools National Championship slated for next month.

(Reuters) Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ijaz Butt has left for Dubai to attend the ICC’s executive board meeting even as a decision on his extension is expected to be taken in the next 48 hours.

By Iva Wharton Last Saturday softball players from Suriname lost thousands of dollars in cash and other valuables in a larceny incident while they were on the field at the Everest Cricket Club, Carifesta Avenue, in a match against their Guyanese counterparts.

HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – Table-topping Guyana will bank on the experience of Leon Cort and Ricky Shakes when they take on resurgent Bermuda in a CONCACAF Group B qualifier at the National Sports Centre (NSC) tonight.

Reigning Guyana Open ladies golf champion Christine Sukhram is blazing a trail of glory ahead of the local premier event which is expected to get underway in two weeks time but she  has expressed  concerned over the lack of female players locally.

Guyana’s golfers performed creditably at the recently held RBC/RBTT Suriname Open tournament played at the Paramaribo Golf Club.

(Reuters) The possibility of converting the 2013 Champions Trophy to a Test Championship and its Presidential nomination and election process is on top of agenda at International Cricket Council ICC Executive Board’s fourth and final meeting of the year which began here yesterday.

(Reuters) A Pakistani court has released on bail Muhammad Ebrahim, a suspect charged with involvement in the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore in March 2009.

Daniel Flores guided Work Force to the pole position in the feature G Class race on Sunday when the Bush Lot United Turf Club held its one-day horse race meet at the club’s facility, Bush Lot, West Coast Berbice.

By Emmerson Campbell Robin Persaud brought the curtain down for the fifth annual Rid on Life five-stage road race yesterday with the victory that had previously eluded him throughout the four-day event.

VISAKHAPATNAM, India, CMC – A typically steady hundred from Kraigg Brathwaite trumped a similarly balanced hundred from William Bosisto to set West Indies Under-19s up for a 16-run victory over Australia Under-19s yesterday, and a third-place finish in the Quadrangular Youth Series.

CHENNAI, India, CMC-IANS – Both West Indies players in the Final of the Champions League Twenty20 under-performed, but Kieron Pollard yesterday got to bask in the thrill of the Mumbai Indians’ 31-run victory and Championship glory over Royal Challengers Bangalore, whose line-up included Chris Gayle.

FATULLAH, Bangladesh,  CMC – Marlon Samuels warmed up for greater battles over the next month with a boundary-studded, undefeated 102 and steady bowling to catapult West Indies to a 75-run victory over the Bangladesh Cricket Board XI yesterday.

The national men’s rugby team is currently gearing up to compete in the Pan Am championships to be staged in Guadalajara, Mexico later this month and the NACRA championships in Barbados next month.