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BRIDGTOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies Cricket Board chief executive Ernest Hilaire says the two-match Twenty20 International series against England next month is a welcome engagement for the regional side.

RALEIGH, North Carolina, (Reuters) – Former Olympic  and world 400 metres champion Jeremy Wariner will miss this  month’s world championships with a foot injury, his agent said on Tuesday.

By Colin Benjamin The fifth and final round of the rain affected 2011 West Indies Cricket Board’s regional under-19 three-day tournament gets underway today with three matches.

A Guyana team last Sunday whipped an Antigua and Barbuda team 5-0 at the Thomas Jefferson High School Playfield in Brooklyn New York, as the Digicel Caribbean Cup football tournament continued.

LONDON, England, CMC – West Indies will play England in two Twenty20 Internationals next month, as the England and Wales Cricket Board moves to fulfill their television obligations to Sky, following the collapse of the Stanford Super Series deal.

LONDON, (Reuters) –     Tiffany Ofili-Porter heads for  the world championships in South Korea this month as a realistic  medal contender in the 100 metres hurdles yet any success is  unlikely to appease those critics who have branded her a  “Plastic Brit”.

Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United is heading into tonight’s match still confident that they can beat their challengers Costa Rica’s Herediano, despite their 0-8 drubbing by that team last week.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Once a word used to deride  England’s cricketers, “predictable” is fast becoming a badge of  honour that captain Andrew Strauss and his squad can wear with  pride.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – India spinner Harbhajan Singh and  batsman Yuvraj Singh have been ruled out of the rest of the test  series against England with injuries, the Indian Cricket Board  (BCCI) said yesterday.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana,  CMC – West Indies Cricket Board cricket operations officer Rawl Lewis has praised the development seminar held here recently for players in the ongoing WICB Under-19 Championship.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – International umpire Clyde Duncan, who lost his battle with cancer last Thursday, will be laid to rest on Sunday.

Despite rain over the weekend, Cotton Field Wild Oats, Rising Star and Pomeroon Oil Mill still advanced to the next round of the countrywide Kares Tapeball competition of the Essequibo leg of the tournament.

Popular promoter Lyall Gittens and FairFox Productions will stage a five-a-side football competition along with a 20/20 dominoes tournament on Saturday from 10am  at the Strikers Headquarters, Meadowbrook Drive.

Mark `Jumbie” Wiltshire has teamed up with TNT Promotions to stage a dominoes competition in New Amsterdam, Berbice.

By Treiston Joseph Headquarters surged to the front on points in the ‘B’ Class competition of the annual Guyana Police Force (GPF) Inter Unit Championships while Guyana stood strong in the ‘A’ class version when the championships commenced yesterday at the Police Sports Club Ground, Eve Leary.

The Guyana Softball League (GSL) says the 2011 Kares Tapeball Ten/10 tournament has been put on hold until Kares Engineering and Bushy Park honour certain agreements.

Pele Gold, BK International Western Tigers A, West Front Road and West Demerara United all advanced to the next round at the close of part of GT&T’s Fastball competition on Sunday at the GFC Ground.

(ICC) England’s Ian Bell has broken into the top five in the Reliance ICC Test Rankings after recording a career-high batting rating following his brilliant 159 against India at Trent Bridge.

AKRON, Ohio, (Reuters) – Tiger Woods has generally  been a winning bet at Firestone Country Club but this week at  the tree-lined venue he will face as much uncertainty as the  recent U.S.

Reigning national champion Taffin Khan finds himself in the lead of the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) Emancipation Day Chess Tournament after the fourth round concluded on Sunday at the Kei-Shar’s Sports Club, Camp and Hadfield Streets.