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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.”

Attorney-at-Law Kim Kyte-John was yesterday elected unopposed as president of the Guyana Netball Association (GNA), when the body held it’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) at the boardroom of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports.

Guyana, after claiming first innings points against Barbados, were pressing for an outright win at the end of the third day of their West Indies Cricket Board, Regional four day encounter at the Providence National Stadium yesterday.

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – Daren Ganga led a fight-back for Trinidad & Tobago, after Andre Fletcher gathered his third first-class hundred to give Windward Islands first innings points in the WICB Regional first-class championship yesterday.

By Treiston Joseph Aliann Pompey is moving on. Pompey is putting behind her the disappointment she has endured after a medal winning year for Guyana on the athletics circuit and focussing   on upcoming international competitions.

Robin Persaud edged home ahead of Walter Grant-Stewart yesterday morning to win the R&R International Limited-sponsored 40-mile cycle road race at West Bank Demerara.

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC – Jamaica stood on the brink of their second victory for the season, despite Shane Jeffers’ second first-class hundred, and a Leeward Islands second innings fight-back in the WICB Regional first-class championship yesterday.

CAVE HILL, Barbados,  CMC – Craig Kieswetter raced to his sixth first-class hundred, after England Lions collected first innings points from the Combined Campuses & Colleges in the WICB Regional first-class championship yesterday.

Former national champion Wendell Meusa ruled on the senior side while rising junior chess player Rashad Hussain emerged victorious in the junior category of the Demerara Distillers Limited/Topco Juice Republic Anniversary Rapid Chess Tournament held yesterday at the Kei-Shar’s Sports Club, Hadfield Street.

NEW DELHI, India, CMC – Ottis Gibson admitted yesterday that his players can ill afford to slip-up against ICC Associates Netherlands in the World Cup tomorrow.

Barbados’ Miguel ‘Hands of Stone’ Antoine handed Guyanese Mark Austin his first professional defeat and in the process became the first fighter to own the Regional Commonwealth title in the main event of the Pro-Am card at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on Friday night.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (Reuters) – Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi again inspired his side with the ball for an 11-run victory to stretch a winning record against Sri Lanka in the World Cup and disappoint a partisan home crowd yesterday.

“Instead of making money from track and field, I’ve been putting money into it.

A three-member team of officials from the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) visited Linden on Thursday as part of the association’s countrywide development plan.

Veerasammy Permaul and Devendra Bishoo ripped through Barbados’ top order in the final session of day two in their four-day regional battle at the Providence National Stadium to put Guyana well in contention for first innings point yesterday.

As the rainy weather descends upon the plains it is doing it’s part to dampen plans of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) in keeping  its scheduled  2011 calendar of events.

IT was eventually derided for its seemingly infinite duration, its overbearing security, its high ticket prices and much more besides but at least the 2007 World Cup in the Caribbean packed more shocks and drama into its first week