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LONDON, (Reuters) – Four changes to a winning Sri  Lanka team, only one of them injury-enforced, created a brief  flurry of concern among their supporters before the World Cup  final against India in Mumbai on April 2. 

When Guyana’s Golden Jaguars square off with Barbados National squad in two friendly international football matches this weekend in Linden and Georgetown the local squad will be looking to impress ahead of several forthcoming international engagements.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Only one final obstacle now  prevents the International Cricket Council (ICC) introducing  floodlit day-night test matches as it confronts dwindling  support for the five-day game.  

Regal Mahaica Queens and Mahaica Princesses stormed into the female semifinals while D’ Edward SC booked the remaining male semifinal berth in the Regal Stationery and Computer Centre over-35 males 20/20 and females open 10/10 softball cricket tournament last weekend at various venues organized by the Guyana Softball League.

The Berbice Volleyball Association (BVA) league competition for the Reggie Goberdhan Memorial Trophy commenced last Sunday with two matches at various hardcourts in Berbice.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – For a show it was hard to beat: A  DJ blasted Bollywood songs, fans decked out in the colours of  the home side danced in the aisles, and the wife of the  billionaire team owner perched on an electric-blue sofa near the  Mumbai Indians’ dugout.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Former boxing champion Sugar  Ray Leonard says in a new book that he was sexually abused as a  teenager by a prominent Olympic coach, the New York Times  reported on Tuesday.  

ESTEPONA, Spain, (Reuters) – Masters champion Charl  Schwartzel believes he can emulate fellow-South African Ernie  Els and win the U.S.

The MA Chidambaram Stadium continued to be a fortress that couldn’t be breached, as Chennai sealed a seventh straight win at home to end Kochi Tuskers Kerala’s maiden IPL campaign on a disappointing note.

MUMBAI, May 18 (Reuters) – Australian cricketer Shane Warne  has been fined $50,000 for publicly criticising an official, the  Indian Premier League (IPL) said on Wednesday.  

DALLAS, (Reuters) – American Zach Johnson defends  his title at this week’s Colonial Invitational in buoyant mood  after a timely chat with a sports psychologist last month.  

Local golfers will battle for top honours in the Torginol Paints Medal Play Golf tournament sponsored by the Continental Group of Companies on Saturday at Lusignan golf Course.

By Treiston Joseph The Guyana Tennis Association (GTA) in collaboration with the Ministry of Education (MOE) Unit of Allied Arts Department yesterday launched an International Tennis Federation (ITF) Tennis Tens programme for primary schools while distributing sports gear to secondary schools at the Kayman Sankar and Company Ltd compound in Hampton Court, Essequibo.

Adrenalin. Violence. And a lot of skill. The Dharamsala sky cracked with lightning and thunder but the real storm was witnessed from the bats of Adam Gilchrist and Shaun Marsh.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Buoyed by Sunday’s win in the first Test, West Indies coach Ottis Gibson says his upbeat side will be looking to sweep the series by winning the second and final Test starting in St Kitts on Friday.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – West Indies have delayed naming their final 13-man squad for the second Test against Pakistan starting here Friday.

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Embattled West Indies off-spinner Shane Shillingford is one of 17 players named by the Dominica Cricket Association to continue preparations for the Windward Islands Twenty20 Championship scheduled to be staged here later this month.

Despite being plagued by the shortage of grounds, the Guyana Hockey Board’s 2011 season is set to get cracking this Friday with the start of the premier men’s Farfan and Mendes first division league.

Defending national champions Rose Hall Town Metro were crowned female cricket champions of Berbice when they defeated Tucber Park by 56 runs at the Area “H” Ground, Rosehall to lift the Millie Lewis Memorial Trophy.

PARIS, (Reuters) – The leak of a confidential “doping  suspicion list” of riders was completely unacceptable but the  tool could be useful, International Cycling Union (UCI)  president Pat McQuaid said yesterday.