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St John’s, Antigua – Two players were fined as a result of breaches following the first round of the ongoing WICB Regional 4 Day Tournament.

CHENNAI, (Reuters) – Indian batting, led by captain  Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s power hitting, forced New Zealand into  submission by piling on a massive total and earned the co-hosts  an easy 117-run win in the warm-up game yesterday.

FATULLAH, Bangladesh, (Reuters) – Stuart Broad’s  return to the England attack three days before the start of the Cricket World Cup has come none too soon for a side which still looks battle-worn and uninspired after its long Australian tour.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Fourteen captains will lead their  teams into the World Cup with the governing body’s assurance  that they are more protected against umpiring howlers than any  of their predecessors.

The third annual Edward ‘Screw’ Richmond Memorial Under-18 Schools football championship for teams in Linden will be launched today FROM  2:30pm.

Even without West Indies captain Darren Sammy and opener Devon Smith the Windward Islands are looming large.

Barbados v Jamaica at Kensington Oval in Barbados (Umpires: Vincent Bullen & Richard Illingworth.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Points standings in the WICB Regional first-class championship after the second round of matches ended yesterday.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC – West Indies suffered a dent to their preparations for the World Cup, when Kumar Sangakkara, Tillakaratne Dilshan, and Thilan Samaraweera struck half-centuries to lead Sri Lanka to a four-wicket victory in their final “official” warm-up match yesterday.

BANGALORE, (Reuters) – Half centuries by the South  African openers set up a surprisingly easy seven-wicket victory  over Australia yesterday in a World Cup warm-up match giving  the holders’ skipper Ricky Ponting much food for thought.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – Ahmed Shehzad and Misbah-ul-Haq  hit centuries as they steered Pakistan to a morale-boosting  89-run victory over co-hosts Bangladesh in a World Cup warm up   match  yesterday.

The Trinidad and Tobago national selectors have made one change to squad for the third round match against the English Lions in the West Indies Four-Day tournament starting on Friday, at the Queen’s Park Oval.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Kevin Pietersen must go back in  time and start constructing his innings as he did at the start  of his international career in order to ignite England’s World  Cup challenge, according to former team mate Geraint Jones.

Trinidad and Tobago and West Indies wicketkeeper/batsman Denesh Ramdin says he is very proud of his wicketkeeping record achieved in the last match against the Combined Campuses and Colleges (CCC) at UWI, SPEC in St.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – England have asked cricket’s  governing body for special permission to play Chris Tremlett in today’s warm-up match against Canada because many of their  bowlers are injured or ill in the lead-up to the World Cup.

CHENNAI, (Reuters) – India captain Mahendra Singh  Dhoni yesterday backtracked on his comments that the Indian  team are “not ready” in the lead-up to the World Cup due to the  jam-packed calendar.

The Linden/Georgetown bus park was a  hive of activity last weekend when  the Young Achievers 20/20 Sports Bar kicked off its Stag Beer Inter-Ward street football tournament.

CHENNAI, (Reuters) – New Zealand cannot rely on their  coach John Wright’s insider knowledge of Indian playing conditions to win matches at the World Cup.

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, (Reuters) – The defending  champion Los Angeles Lakers were left embarrassed after their  worst loss of the season, a 109-89 thrashing by the Charlotte  Bobcats on Monday.

World renowned Guyanese karateka, Master Frank Woon-A-Tai, recently announced the formation of a new world karate organization, the International Karate Daigaku (IKD), according to a press release from the Guyana Karate College (GKC).