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JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – World women’s 800 metres  champion Caster Semenya has withdrawn from the World Student  Games this month because of a back injury.

Guyana Under-19 clinched a morale boosting nine-wicket victory over the Leeward Island at the Everest Cricket Club ground (ECC), in the second round of the limited overs version of the West Indies Cricket Board’s Under 19 tournament yesterday.

Nine of Guyana’s top junior players are set to depart Guyana tomorrow for St Vincent and the Grenadines where they are scheduled to participate in the island’s International Tennis Federation (ITF) junior tennis tournament to be held from August 15 – 20th.

The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) has selected its squad for the 53rd Senior Caribbean Table Tennis Championships which starts tomorrow at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

BIRMINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – England enjoyed  another dominant day against India by bowling the tourists out  for 224 on the first day of the third test at Edgbaston yesterday before closing on 84 without loss.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana,  CMC – Emmanuel Lett outdid Fabien Allen in the battle of the under-rated all-rounder and led Trinidad and Tobago to a tight two-wicket win over Jamaica in the second round of the WICB Regional Under-19 One-Day Championship here yesterday.

RALEIGH, North Carolina, (Reuters) – Three-times 200  metres winner Allyson Felix is among eight defending champions  named in a powerful 129-member U.S.

Two former champions are likely to compete in this weekend’s fourth Annual Courts Guyana Inc.

KANDY, Sri Lanka, (Reuters) – Fast bowler Mitchell  Johnson, playing in his 100th one-day international,took a  career best six for 31 to bowl Australia to a comfortable seven  wickets win over Sri Lanka in the first one-day international at  the Pallakele Stadium yesterday.

A team of eight swimmers is scheduled to represent Guyana at the Goodwill Games Swim Meet scheduled for Trinidad and Tobago from tomorrow to August.

ZURICH, Switzerland,  CMC – Senior CONCACAF vice-president, Lisle Austin has been slapped with a year-long ban by football’s world governing body FIFA, in the latest fallout from the scandal that has wrecked Caribbean football.

BIRMINGHAM, England,  (Reuters) – India’s famous  batting lineup has flopped for a fifth successive innings as  they are struggling to handle the swinging and seaming  conditions in England, India coach Duncan Fletcher said yesterday.

JOHNS CREEK, Georgia, (Reuters) – After an  unprecedented run of six successive majors without a winner from  the United States, leading American golfers are hoping the PGA  Championship ends the barren run — even if bookmakers think it  unlikely.

Led by captain Kraigg Brathwaite, Barbados registered their second victory of the WICB One-day tournament over the Windward Islands at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence yesterday.

Guyana cricket captain Ramnaresh Sarwan will participate in the Second Annual Knights Basketball Club Celebrity Basketball Game  on August 20 at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

An explosive 17-ball 49 from Derwin Christian and a 35-ball 49 from Shemroy Barrington helped the Gizmos and Gadgets Georgetown Pitbulls team to a four-run win against Hits & Jams All Stars at the Demerara Cricket Club ground yesterday.

The second annual Mark Sutton Knockout Memorial Football competition is set for August 14 at the Melanie Playfield from 8pm.

Defending champions Trinidad and Tobago defeated Guyana by 26 runs at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground Bourda in the opening round of the limited overs version of the West Indies Cricket Board’s Under-19 tournament yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Results of second round matches in the WICB Regional Women’s One-day Championship yesterday.

– pump reportedly ‘burnt out’ After having been reopened in April following a nine-month long closure to effect repairs, the Colgrain Swimming Pool is again closed to repair an electrical fault.