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TAUNTON, England, CMC – Joel Garner has agreed to become a patron of the Glastonbury Club.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – Ireland’s shock three-wicket  World Cup win over England not only threw Group B wide open but  provided a timely warning that no team can take quarter-final  spots for granted.

(Reuters) – Facts and figures relating to the Group  B World Cup match between Bangladesh and West Indies (0900 GMT)  at Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur on Friday.

BANGALORE, (Reuters) – Ireland’s Kevin O’Brien, who  plays his cricket for the Railway Union Club, yesterday stood  head and shoulders above some of the sport’s greatest names  after guiding his country to one of the biggest World Cup shocks  with victory over the old enemy England.

BANGALORE, (Reuters) – England must raise their game  by several notches if they are to stay alive in the World Cup  and Andrew Strauss admitted that unless they stopped “chasing  their tails”, their journey could come to a premature end.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – A resurgent West Indies will  have a stronger opposition to try their Plan B when they take on  an ambitious Bangladesh in tomorrow’s World Cup Group B match in  Dhaka.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Chelsea showed by beating  Manchester United that they will not give up the Premier League  title without a fight and Liverpool are likely to be just as  tenacious when they face United at Anfield on Sunday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Soccer’s law-making body is  expected to approve more experiments with goal-line technology  systems on Saturday, but there is still a long way to go before  any hi-tech device helps a referee make a decision.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – When Sri Lanka turned up for  their first two World Cup matches without Lasith Malinga, it was  a bit like watching The Good, The Bad and the Ugly without the  gun-slinging heroics of Clint Eastwood.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – In a World Cup in the  sub-continent generally expected to be dominated by spinners,  the success of fast bowlers has come as very little surprise to  former West Indies captain Richie Richardson.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – An aggrieved Indian cricket  board (BCCI) on Wednesday sent a letter to the game’s governing  body slamming the “inadequacy” of the Umpire Decision Review  System (UDRS) being used in the World Cup.

For the first time in the WICB First-Class tournament Guyana showed some backbone before they drew their game against Barbados at the Guyana National Stadium and skipper Assad Fudadin was pleased with the performance.

In a simple ceremony yesterday, ANSA McAl rewarded the top finishers of their 7-A-Side street football inter-ward tournament which was sponsored under the company’s Stag beer brand.

Six Under-15 cricketers late last month received $200,000 worth of cricket gear and educational materials from the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club under the auspices of the Basil Butcher Berbice Cricket Development Trust Fund.

The Inter-Guiana Games which were scheduled for Suriname from May 12-15 might be postponed to a later date.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Plans for a mega-fight  between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Serena Williams was  recovering at her Los Angeles home after undergoing emergency  treatment for a blood clot in one of her lungs, the former  world number one confirmed yesterday.

ORLANDO, Florida, (Reuters) – Orlando brought the  New York Knicks back to Earth with a bump on Tuesday with Dwight  Howard grabbing 30 points in the Magic’s 116-110 win.

A new body headed by newly-elected president Lethem Wilson was chosen to carry out the administrative functions of the Linden Table Tennis Association (LTTA) following a meeting on Monday at the Senior Supervisors’ Club in Linden.

By Tony Cozier At the ICC World Cup In DHAKAThere were always three teams in their group the West Indies needed to beat to be sure of advancing to the quarter-finals of the World Cup.