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BRISBANE, Australia, CMC – Chris Gayle signed out of this year’s Twenty20 Big Bash with an incredible pyrotechnic display that galloped Western Australia to a 32-run victory, and eliminated Queensland from the competition yesterday.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Resurfacing of the athletics track at the National Stadium was set to commence yesterday.

HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – Regional officials are contemplating staging a severely scaled down version of the CARIFTA Games this year.

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Patrick John believes that Sports Minister Justina Charles’ planned talks with the Dominica Employees Federation and the Dominica Association of Industry and Commerce is destined to fail.

The Street Solutions organisation will be launching its Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG) initiative and website on Saturday

DENVER, (Reuters) – Carmelo Anthony got off to a  sluggish start but caught fire in the third quarter as the  Denver Nuggets crushed the Indiana Pacers 121-107 on Sunday.

The national cricketers of Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) were told to put a hold on celebrations until they finished the job of winning the Caribbean T20 tournament.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Rafa Nadal shook off the  sweats to savage Croatian Marin Cilic and reach the  quarter-finals of the Australian Open on a Melbourne yesterday  evening as cool as the top seed was hot.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Former captain Inzamam-ul-Haq  says Pakistan’s World Cup chances have been hampered by the board’s delay in naming a skipper for the tournament.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Third-year guard Mario Chalmers  will replace veteran Carlos Arroyo as starting point guard for  the Miami Heat, coach Erik Spoelstra said yesterday after he  helped the team snap a four-game losing skid.

A source from the Registrar of Friendly Societies says that their accounting specialists will be perusing the documents of the Guyana Cricket Board with a “fine teeth comb”

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan golfers hailed  compatriot Jhonattan Vegas’s PGA Tour win as a big advance for  their sport in the baseball-obsessed nation and proof socialist  leader Hugo Chavez’s disparagement of golf was misplaced.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Chelsea confirmed their return to  form with a ruthless 4-0 win over Bolton Wanderers yesterday to  keep a foothold in the Premier League title race.

GREENWICH, New York, CMC – Nicolette Fernandes tumbled out in the first qualifying round of the US $37,450 Harrow Greenwich Open over the weekend.

Bhowlaram “Friskie” Deo brought his consistent form of 2010 into the start of this year when he secured victory in the Harris Paints sponsored Medal Play Golf tournament last Saturday at the Lusignan Golf Course.

Loris Nathoo and Wendell Meusa are the only two unbeaten players after six rounds of the Trophy Stall Chess Tournament at the Keishar’s Sports Club on Sunday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Ernest Hilaire hopes to grow the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship brand value to such a high level that the West Indies Cricket Board will have little trouble being able to find a sponsor for it.

AHMEDABAD, India, CMC – West Indies Women will return from their tour of India empty-handed, after another terminal batting decline condemned them to a 15-run defeat in the third and final Twenty20 International against India Women yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Gus Logie acknowledged that to say he has no aspirations to coach West Indies team again may be talking himself out of the job.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Trinidad & Tobago overcame their inspirational captain Daren Ganga being sidelined with a hand injury to be crowned the new Caribbean Twenty20 champions, following a resounding, 36-run victory over Hampshire yesterday.