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LONDON, (Reuters) – Badminton’s world governing body  is threatening severe penalties for players who cite injury or  illness and pull out of matches without good reason when playing  someone from their own country. 

The Hikers Hockey Club’s annual Junior Hockey Summer programme will commence today at the St.

The Port Mourant Turf Club in collaboration with Jumbo Jet Stables will stage the fifth annual Guyana Cup horse race meet at Port Mourant, Corentyne, Berbice on Sunday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England named an unchanged  squad yesterday for the fourth test against India starting  on Thursday at The Oval.

The 53rd Senior Caribbean Table Tennis Championships opened yesterday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall with president of the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) Henry Greene saying that the association’s work was nowhere near completion.

Second vice-president of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Franklin Wilson was yesterday appointed as acting head of the institution two days after long-standing president Colin Klass was provisionally suspended by the world governing body (FIFA) from all football-related activities.

All roads today will lead to  219 Patrick Dam and Angoy’s Avenue (Niee’s residence) for a grand one day dominoes competition featuring some of the country’s top teams and players.

In sport it is always felt that  a group stars in a XI does not make a team win but 11 players working together will.

As one who has written as many words to fill the public library on behalf of the West Indies Players Association (WIPA), Dinanath Ramnarine’s comment last week suggested that the penny had finally dropped.

Guyanese will be entertained by Chris Gayle this weekend in the inaugural Hits and Jams Twenty20 competition at the National Stadium.

Dyna’s Bravados and Fire Links cricket teams have advanced to the Super 16 stage of the Kares Engineering/Bushy Park Sawmills 10/10 Tapeball Cricket Competition when play in the East Bank Zone ended yesterday at the Diamond Community Centre ground.

‘Lightning Struck Assassin’ Kwesi Jones will defend his light heavyweight title against Cleveland Fraser in the main event on August 26 at the monthly Pro-Am card at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Bakery giants Bakewell of 5-9 Drive, Miller St., Triumph, East Coast Demerara, has joined forces with the Guyana Floodlight Softball Cricket Association (GFSCA) to sponsor the next nationwide male/female softball tournament, set to kick off on August 28.

Guyana’s tournament momentum and title hopes came to an abrupt halt yesterday when they suffered their second defeat in a week losing by eight wickets to Barbados at the Blairmont Community Centre Ground, Berbice, in the penultimate round of the limited overs version of the West Indies Cricket Board’s Under 19 tournament.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana,  CMC – Emmanuel Lett continued his outstanding showing at the WICB Regional Under-19 Championship with another brilliant performance yesterday to re-ignite Trinidad and Tobago hopes of winning the One-Day title.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana,  CMC – Jamaica finally got a win in the WICB Regional Under-19 One-Day Championship, as middle-order batsman Brian Gayle hit an unbeaten century to guide them to a two-wicket victory with a ball to spare in a cliff-hanger yesterday.

BIRMINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – England surged to  the top of the world rankings after crushing India by an innings  and 242 runs in the third test yesterday to secure their sixth  consecutive series win.

One of the most devastating Twenty20 batsmen in the World Chris Gayle of Jamaica and West Indies fame says it is a privilege to be in Guyana to play in the Jamzone Twenty/20 Masters Cup which began last night with the semi-final round.

-O’Brien lauds performancesGuyana’s world-ranked squash player Nicolette Fernandes did a sizzling retake of the title as the Caribbean’s leading lady in squash after defeating defending champion Karen Meakins on Wednesday to win the ladies singles final at the Caribbean Area Squash Association (CASA) Senior Championships.

Already in a state of disarray following the forced resignation of Austin “Jack” Warner from his vaunted vice presidency of FIFA, and from the presidency of both CONCACAF and the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) in the wake of the much talked-about Mohammad Bin Hammam cash-for-votes saga, Caribbean football faces further upheaval following the August 11 announcement by FIFA that its Ethics Committee will now be investigating 16 CFU officials in connection with the scandal.