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Off-spinner Amit Jaggernauth who played a crucial role in T&T winning their last regional first class clash against Windwards says his team can go all the way and win the title this season.

Guyanese players Troy Cornelius and Devon Clements both struck half centuries in the Sunday League cricket series in Trinidad on the weekend.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Demolition man Lasith Malinga  became the first bowler to pick up two hat-tricks at World Cups  as he led Sri Lanka to a nine-wicket flattening of Kenya yesterday.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Sri Lanka batsman Mahela  Jayawardene has taken legal advice over doubts raised on a  state-run TV channel about the way he and another batsman  performed in the World Cup defeat by Pakistan.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Pakistan, suddenly cast among  the serious contenders for their second World Cup title after  beating Sri Lanka, have the chance to fine-tune their fielding  and bowling tomorrow in preparation for tougher tests ahead.

BANGALORE, (Reuters) – Ireland captain William  Porterfield is taking a leaf out of opposite number Andrew  Strauss’s book by concentrating on being “cricket smart” when  they play England in Bangalore today in the World Cup.

NEW DELHI, India, CMC – Kemar Roach snared the Netherlands’ last three wickets to capture a rare World Cup hat-trick in a dramatic finish, firing West Indies to a crushing 215-run victory over Netherlands yesterday.

By Tony Cozier At the ICC World Cup In DELHI Apparent concern over what might await him should be return to India has reportedly caused Marlon Samuels to decline selection for the current World Cup as replacement for the injured Dwayne Bravo.

Guyana secured a draw against Barbados on the final day of their West Indies Cricket Board Regional Four-Day tournament at the Providence National Stadium, and in the process moved up one space ahead of them.

NAGPUR, India, (Reuters) – An assured 98 from Tatenda  Taibu and a devastating opening spell from left-arm spinner Ray  Price spurred Zimbabwe to a crushing 175-run victory over Canada  in their World Cup Group A match yesterday.

Justice James Bovell-Drakes yesterday adjourned the first day of oral arguments between lawyers of the warring factions of the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) in the Supreme Court until Thursday at 13:30 hours.

Following a packed schedule of races last month, national cycling coach Hassan Mohamed is continuing the trend with the 14th annual 55 miles cycle road race on Sunday in Berbice.

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – Daren Ganga fashioned his 21st first-class hundred to set-up a sensational, come-from-behind, 51-run victory for T&T over Windward Islands in the WICB Regional first-class championship yesterday.

CAVE HILL, Barbados, CMC – A half-century from Nkrumah Bonner typified defiant batting from the Combined Campuses & Colleges, which earned them a draw with the England Lions in the WICB Regional first-class championship yesterday.

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC – Dave Bernard Jr completed a memorable spell of bowling to help usher Jamaica to a 10-wicket victory, and condemn Leeward Islands to their third loss in the WICB Regional first-class championship yesterday.

National Sevens rugby coach and player Theodore Henry will depart Guyana today for the United Kingdom to participate in a six-week coaching programme at the Loughborough University in Leicestershire, United Kingdom.

Gordon Richards and Ryan Beharry were in devastating form in winning their respective categories at the GuyanaNRA handgun section shoot last weekend at TSU ranges at Eve Leary.

BANGALORE, (Reuters) – India and England set alight  the World Cup yesterday after a record-breaking 676 run-feast  ended with a dramatic tie off the last ball.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Davendra Bishoo will replace injured all-rounder Dwayne Bravo in the West Indies squad at the World Cup.

By Tony Cozier At the ICC World Cup in DELHI The West Indies resume their World Cup campaign at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium here today, appreciably weakened and forced into a change of strategy for the remainder by the loss of the player coach Ottis Gibson calls their “energizer.”