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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – There still has been no word on if Trinidad and Tobago will pursue legal action following their controversial Regional First Class Championship semi-final against Jamaica which ended Monday.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, CMC – Pakistan batting legend Javed Miandad will not join the national squad for the Test and one-day series against West Indies later this month and says he will decide on the batting coach offer after the tour.

LAHORE, Pakistan, CMC – Rookie speedster Sadaf Hussain has been called up to replace uncapped pacer Aizaz Cheema in Pakistan’s 16-man one-day squad to face West Indies later this month in the Caribbean.

The Berbice Schools Table Tennis competition, organized by the steering committee of the Berbice Table Tennis Sub-Association is scheduled for Saturday at the Berbice High School Auditorium.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – An upbeat Trinidad and Tobago squad left here yesterday for the Jean Pierre Youth Championship, confident of returning with the title.

By Treiston Joseph Athletes, some of whom will compete on Guyana’s first synthetic track to be erected at Leonora and which is expected to be completed some time next year are happy with the latest development but have some reservations.

After sustained pressure from the Georgetown Football Association (GFA), the executive of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has decided to meet with the 11 affiliates tomorrow at noon at the Federation’s headquarters.

KARACHI, Pakistan, CMC – Pakistan have axed three senior players from the One-Day International squad announced yesterday to face West Indies in the Caribbean later this month.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Jamaican stroke-maker Marlon Samuels has been recalled to the West Indies squad for the first time in three years, after being named yesterday in a 13-man squad for the Twenty20 International against Pakistan later this month.

Celebrity Times was one of several teams that booked quarter final places on Sunday following the completion of the Super 16 stage of this year’s GT&T 10/10 Softball Cricket Competition at the Everest Sports Club.

Executives of the Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA) yesterday met with Minister of Culture Youth and Sport, Frank Anthony at the Sport Ministry’s office, Main Street, in an effort to garner assistance for projects to be launched by the newly-elected LABA executives.

Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club (RHTY&SC) honoured 40 of its members on the occasion of the  institution’s 21st Annual Awards Ceremony at the J.C.

Over five months after the promised October reopening, the Colgrain Swimming Pool remains closed, leaving swimmers and coaches baffled about when they can resume training at the facility as the swim season progresses.

National fullbore captain Mahendra Persaud said he was happy with the state of preparation of the National rifle shooting squad ahead of next month’s West Indies Fullbore Championships billed for Antigua/Barbuda.

The Hinterland Youth and Sports Development Association (HYSDA) in collaboration with the Rupununi Athletic Sports Academy (RASA) and the Rising Star Athletic Club will be hosting a Rodeo 10km road race in Rupununi, Region Nine on April 24.

Brian Tracey, Managing Director of Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) will be looking to upstage other competitors at Saturday’s GBTI sponsored Medal Play Golf tournament at the Lusignan Golf Course.

The hard hitting Kurt Bess will have a crack at the newly-commissioned cruiserweight title of Guyana when he fights Barbados-based Guyanese  Cleveland Fraser at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground on April 25.

Former 400 metres Schools National Champion, Philip Drayton is believed to have misled a host of Guyanese athletes via Facebook into thinking that the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) will be sending a contingent to the 2011 Southern Games to be staged this weekend at Guaracara Park, Pointe-a-Pierre, Trinidad.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago on Tuesday unveiled German Otto Pfister as its new head coach, charged with the responsibility of getting the national side to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Wayne Rooney let his feet do  the talking with a superb first-half goal to give Manchester  United a 1-0 first leg win at Chelsea and tip the balance of the  Champions League quarter-final their way yesterday.