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PALLEKELE, Sri Lanka, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka came up with a vastly improved performance in their second innings yesterday, leaving the onus of saving the second test against Australia on two of their most experienced batsmen, Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene.

Australian off-spinner Nathan Hauritz was struck in the face during an altercation at a Queensland nightclub and needed facial surgery.

BERLIN, Germany,  CMC – World champions Yohan Blake and Kirani James led four young Caribbean athletes that enhanced their growing reputations with notable victories  yesterday at the International Stadium Festival meet.

Mohammad Hafeez and Imran Farhat orchestrated Pakistan’s best ever first-wicket partnership in One Day Internationals as they romped to a 10-wicket triumph over Zimbabwe in Harare yesterday.

By Emmerson Campbell “Nothing in sport happens without sponsorship.” So said president of Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU), Kit Nascimento, at the launching of the Neal and Massy Group of Companies National Schools Rugby tournament yesterday at the National Park Rugby Ground.

Guyana Beverage Company (GBC) renewed its sponsorship of the Fruta Conquerors Football Club for the 10th year with offerings of $1.5M in cash and gear Friday at the company’s head office at Diamond, East Bank Demerara.

Radesh Rameshwar, Chief Executive Officer of Kares Engineering Company sponsors of the inaugural 10/10 softball tournament which ended recently has promised to double the prize money for next year’s tournament.

Centuries from Michael Hussey and Shaun Marsh saw Australia to an impressive score of 411 for seven and a lead of 237 at stumps on a rain-affected day three to the second Test.

Boxers Mervin Ageday and Benjamin Henry are out of the Commonwealth Youth Games currently underway in the Isle of Man after losing their first round matches on Thursday.

Reuters) – World heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko retained his WBC title on Saturday with a technical knockout of Polish challenger Tomasz Adamek in the 10th round in Wroclaw.

With less than a month to go before hosting Trinidad and Tobago in their return 2014 World Cup qualifier, Bermuda are knocking themselves for requesting to switch venues for it’s second Group B match and its head coach Devarr Boyles has criticized the playing surface at Providence Stadium.

By Iva Wharton Athletes Tiffany Smith and Ashanti Scott are currently soldiers in the Guyana Defence Force, the nation’s number one military institution.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Novak Djokovic saved two match points to roar back from the brink of defeat and beat Roger Federer in a five-set thriller at the U.S.

(Reuters) – Andy Roddick fought his way to the quarter-finals of the U.S.

HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – Teenager Deunte Darrell has been hit with a year’s ban for a string of offences during an abandoned Premier Division match between his club Willow Cuts and Devonshire at the weekend, as administrators here vowed to clamp down on indiscipline.

By Iva Wharton The Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) has named 11 boxers to represent Guyana at the Ronald Wilson Memorial championship in Barbados from November 30 to December 15.

RIETI, Italy, CMC – Jamaican Kaliese Spencer continued to make up for her World Championship disappointment by winning her second race in three days at the Rieti IAAF World Challenge here yesterday.

(Reuters) – Briton Andy Murray beat big-serving John Isner 7-5 6-4 3-6 7-6 on Friday, holding off the tiebreaker specialist 7-2 in the fourth-set decider to reach the U.S.

LONDON, England, CMC – Rookie West Indies batsman Darren Bravo has admitted to being surprised over his short-listing for the International Cricket Council Emerging Player-of-the-Year award, but is now backing his chances of walking away with the honour.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies head coach Ottis Gibson says the West Indies Cricket Board will spare no effort in developing a new generation of fast bowlers.