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Trinidad and Tobago walked away with an easy mixed doubles title when the 2011 Caribbean Table Tennis Championships continued yesterday at the Cliff Anderson Sport Hall (CASH).

LONDON, (Reuters) – Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel  appealed to kidnappers on Monday for the safe return of his  father after he was abducted in Nigeria last week.

BIRMINGHAM, England,  (Reuters) – Warwickshire  County Cricket Club, which hosted the England-India test that  ended on Saturday with the home side crowned the world’s best,  has incurred a 29 million pound debt to retain its international  status but has no regrets about the “risk”.

The annual one-week Summer Youth Camp organized by the Georgetown Football Club ggot underway yesterday at the club’s venue, North Road Bourda.

Champtress won her second of three feature events on Sunday when the Kennard’s Memorial Turf Club (KMTC), Bush Lot Farm, Corentyne held its annual post-Emancipation horse race meet.

Guyana’s Nicola Ramdyhan breezed through the qualifying round to come out on top of the girls 14 round robin qualifiers, while teammates Aretta Dey and Daniel Lopes also made it into the main draw of the First Citizens Investment Services 2011 International Junior Tennis Tournament currently ongoing in St Vincent and the Grenadines.

The boys from the Land of Flying Fish made it five wins out of five  en route to dethroning 2010 winners Trinidad and Tobago as the regional limited overs champions with a commanding nine-wicket win at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) Ground, yesterday.

Guyana’s Under-19 cricket team ended its chequered campaign of the WICB limited overs tournament with a draw against the Windward Islands at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground, Bourda.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Jamaica made light work of the Leewards Islands to end their WICB Regional Under-19 One-Day campaign on a high yesterday.

Team Guyana ended in fourth position after collecting 15 medals when the Goodwill Swim Meet came to a close yesterday in Trinidad and Tobago.

The Dominican Republic held off Trinidad and Tobago in the male team competition to become the 2011 Caribbean Table Tennis Champions at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall last night.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Stafanie Taylor, as expected, played a pivotal role  and Jamaica became the new WICB Regional Women’s One-day champions yesterday when they completed a 30-run victory over two-time defending champions Trinidad & Tobago.

RALEIGH, North Carolina, (Reuters) – Former U.S. 100  metres champion Mike Rodgers’s world championships eligibility  rests in the hands of a panel who will hear his doping case,  American officials said yesterday.

TORONTO, (Reuters) – Serena Williams won her second  straight tournament and proved her mettle ahead of the U.S.

North Sound, Antigua – Antigua Minister of State within the Ministry of Sport, Local Government and Special Projects, Senator, The Honourable Winston Williams Jr has called on regional governments to make greater investments in cricket.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England can dominate the longer  form of the game for many years to come after humiliating India  to become the top-ranked test nation, a slew of former leading  players have said.  

MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – English champions  Manchester United opened their title defence with a 2-1 win at  West Bromwich Albion  yesterday while Chelsea could manage only a  draw in new coach Andre Villas-Boas’s first Premier League  match. 

HAMBANTOTA, (Reuters) – Australia produced another  clinically efficient performance to beat Sri Lanka by eight wickets in the second one-day international at the Mahinda  Rajapaksa Stadium and take a 2-0 lead in the five-match series yesterday.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – “RIP. World’s No.1 test team”  screamed the Times of India’s front page headline yesterday as former players joined angry media in blaming selectors for  India’s limp series loss to England.

KING CITY, Canada, CMC – Adrian Barath hit 69, following up steady bowling from Samuel Badree and Imran Khan to lead Trinidad & Tobago to a seven-wicket victory over hosts Canada on Saturday.