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India’s bowlers continued to find it hard going yesterday at Taunton as Somerset amassed 425 for 3 before declaring shortly before their allotted 100-over first innings was completed.

VP Sports Update Inter Organisation Basketball League quarterfinal round bounces off tonight at the Burnham Court from 19:00 hrs.

The inaugural Digicel schools football championship set to conclude today was hit by a hiccup as the defeated semi-finalist Waramadong Secondary threatened to pull out of the third place play-off match today, claiming they were unfairly treated in Friday’s game.

DOHA, (Reuters) – Suspended Asian soccer chief Mohammed bin Hammam was tight-lipped yesterday over reports alleging he was not fully co-operating in investigations over a cash-for-votes bribery scandal concerning his aborted bid for the FIFA presidency.

HEUSDEN-ZOLDER, Belgium, CMC – Veteran Bahamian sprinter Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie took the women’s 100 metres at the KBC Night of Athletics here yesterday.

West Side All Stars can claim bragging rights of being best from the west as they defeated West Demerara United in the West Demerara final at Den Amstel Community Centre ground yesterday.

Something strange happened in Dominica last weekend. For each of the last three days of a Test match the West Indies had absolutely no hope of winning and every chance of losing, Windsor Park, the impressive modern stadium in the capital, Roseau, increasingly filled to near its 10,000 capacity.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Jamaica survived a late stumble to beat Barbados by four wickets on Friday to capture the West Indies Under-15 Championship.

Sri Lanka Cricket have confirmed that the DRS will be used in the upcoming series against Australia, contradicting earlier reports.

Close to 100 horses will compete in the Ryan Crawford Memorial Turf Club and Sports Facilities (RCMTC&SF) and Ansa Mc Al Trading Guyana Limited Triple Crown Classic horse race meet today at the club’s track at Alness, Corentyne, Berbice.

SANDWICH, England, (Reuters) – Once the filthy weather had done its worst and scattered the British Open field asunder, Northern Ireland’s Darren Clarke emerged in late yesterday sunshine atop the leader board but with a pack of Americans lurking dangerously.

Defending regional under-19 3-day and 50 overs champions the Windward Islands and Trinidad and Tobago both have ambitions to improve on their 2010 triumphs, when they kick start their campaign tomorrow, in the first round of 2011 Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL) regional under-19 tournament.

President of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) Keith Foster said yesterday that the board’s legal advisors have requested documentation on what transpired at last Sunday’s Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) elections.

PLATEAU DE BEILLE, France, (Reuters) – Belgian Jelle Vanendert took advantage of the waiting game by the main contenders to snatch victory in the 168.5-km 14th stage of the Tour de France from St Gaudens yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit says the country plans to aggressively pursue more Test matches, following the successful hosting of the inaugural game last week.

-will face GTI Wismar Christianburg Multilateral and the Government Technical Institute will contest the final of the inaugural 2011 Digicel Schools football championships, after securing semi-final victories at the GCC Ground Bourda yesterday.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Chief regional selector Clyde Butts has given Darren Sammy’s leadership a stamp of approval and has hinted that he is likely to continue as captain for the proposed tours of Bangladesh and India later this year.

Selectors of the Guyana Hockey Board (GHB) have chosen  the final 18 players who will make the national female team and earn a chance to represent Guyana at the inaugural Pan America Hockey Federation (PAHF) Challenge to be held from July 30 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

By Marlon Munroe The Berbice Cricket Board is to meet on August 14 to decide the fate of David Black, the delegate who voted at the controversial Guyana Cricket Board elections even though the county board had instructed him not to.

Over the last twenty years Guyana has dominated regional squash by winning fifteen of the last twenty Caribbean Areas Squash Association (CASA) Junior Championship titles while making it seven straight at the recently-concluded Digicel Caribbean Junior Squash Championships in Guyana from July 8-14.