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The games are over for West Indies cricket team at the World Cup and so too should be the ones the West Indies Cricket Board has been playing with respect to development of the regional team and the regional standard on the whole.

AHMEDABAD, India, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka will bank  on their home advantage against an English side grappling with  inconsistency and injuries in today’s World Cup quarter-final  in Colombo.

CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – Windward Islands made early inroads into the Leeward Islands batting line-up on a rain-hit first day of their final round match in the Regional Four Day Championship here yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Twenty-two wickets tumbled as fortunes lurched this way and that on a dramatic opening day of the final round Regional First Class Championship match between Combined Campuses and Colleges and Barbados here yesterday.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica produced a solid batting effort to make significant inroads into England Lions’ total, on the second day of their final round Regional First Class Championship yesterday.

The Gittens Promotions and Next Level Domino Club seventh One-Day Countrywide Domino Tournament will commence today from 1pm at the National Gymnasium.

Malteenoes Sports Club honoured son of the club Kwame Crosse on Wednesday on his selection for the West Indies Under-19 team that will be touring Dubai next month.

The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) will launch a Junior Elite Training Programme for 35 Under-15 cricketers drawn from across the ancient county.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) will today and tomorrow stage trials for female footballers looking to earn spots of the Lady Jags team for an upcoming engagement against Suriname.

AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) – India sparked wild celebrations among its billion plus fans after ending Australia’s remarkable 12-year reign as World Cup champions with a thrilling five-wicket win in the quarter-finals yesterday.

Trinidad & Tobago captain Darren Ganga is hoping that favourable weather prevails over the next four days since his team aims to take full points against Guyana in the WICB Regional four-day game that begins today at the National Stadium.

The final of the University of Guyana Inter-Faculty Basketball Tournament has always been a high drama event and yesterday’s championship game was no different as Social Sciences defeated Natural Sciences 42-41.

By Tony Cozier At the ICC World Cup In Delhi West Indies cricket has endured several horrendous periods over the past decade but none more horrendous than in the last week of their 2011 World Cup campaign.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) 10/10 Softball Cricket Competition continued into its fifth week last weekend at various venues around Guyana with teams booking their places in the super 16 stage, which was pushed back to April 2 owing to the weather.

The Rigby/Nedd Games which were to be held at the Blairmont Sports Club Ground, Berbice by the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) on Sunday will not be held owing to the unfit condition of the ground.

Berbice ‘A’ player Jason Sinclair has been named 2010 Cricketer of the Year for the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC).

LONDON (Reuters) – British Olympic Association (BOA) chairman Colin Moynihan and chief executive Andy Hunt have been suspended from London 2012 organising committee board meetings because of a row over funding.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Interpol said today it had foiled a militant plot to carry out an attack during the cricket World Cup now being played across South Asia.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – West Indies exited the World Cup without so much as a whimper, suffering an appalling batting collapse as they plunged to an embarrassing 10-wicket defeat to Pakistan in a lopsided quarter-final contest here yesterday.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s top order batsmen  will need to find an effective counter to Australia’s fast  bowlers in today’s World Cup quarter-final if they are to  sustain a billion dreams.