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The start of the 2011 basketball year has been hit by a one-week delay.

Former West Indies captain Brian Lara will read the eulogy at the funeral for his former mentor Joey Carew at a service at St.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, (Reuters) – The International  Olympic Committee (IOC) suspended the Ghanaian national  committee yesterday after the government failed to take agreed  steps to ensure no political interference in the body.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Pakistan hosted its maiden first  class match under lights with a coloured ball yetserday in a  bid to attract crowds and raise the profile of its domestic  cricket.

The Berbice Volleyball Association (BVA) will launch the 2011 season on Sunday at the G.T.M

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Four wickets – two to Esuan Crandon and two run outs – in a dramatic final over handed reigning champions Guyana a miraculous, come-from-behind, one-run victory over Somerset in the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship yesterday.

Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Presidential hopeful Bissondial Singh believes that he has the wherewithal to restore a positive image to the embattled institution.

DURBAN, South Africa, (Reuters) – Lonwabo Tsotsobe  received the man of the match award after his four wickets led  South Africa to a crushing 135-run win over India in the first  one-day international at Kingsmead yesterday.

Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United Football club has been invited to participate in the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Club Championships and President Odinga Lumumba has made a fervent appeal for more corporate support

The Guyana Amateur Bodybuilding & Fitness Federation (GABBFF) was fraught by setbacks for last year with the association finding it difficult to garner any meaningful sponsorship to host tournaments and send its teams abroad

Lennox Cush found himself wedged between a rock and a hard place prior to the Caribbean T20 cricket Championship last month.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Fidel Edwards continued his comeback from injury when bowled in a Barbados national trial on Tuesday.

Rugby will return to the Providence National Stadium on Saturday for the first time since July last year when the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) stages their practice games there.

ADELAIDE, Australia, (Reuters) – Chris Woakes struck  the winning runs off the last ball to lift England to a dramatic  one-wicket victory over Australia in a Twenty20 international yesterday.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Alcindo Holder curbed his natural attacking instincts to stroke 44 not out, and steer Barbados to a tense, four-wicket victory against Leeward Islands in the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship on Tuesday.

PERTH, Australia, CMC – Chris Gayle plans to continue playing for West Indies in the immediate future, instead of chasing big bucks in lucrative Twenty20 leagues around the World.

HARARE, Zimbabwe, CMC – Brian Lara has been confirmed as a technical advisor for Zimbabwe ahead of the 2011 World Cup, which is to be staged in India, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh next month.

HOBART, Australia, CMC – Dwayne Bravo made small, but vital contribution to Victoria, but they still lost their latest Twenty20 Big Bash match, when Tasmania crushed them by nine wickets on Tuesday.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Pakistan have recalled  wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal to their squad for the six-match  one-day series in New Zealand.

Coach of Guyana’s Amazon Conquerors Twenty20 cricket team Rabindranauth Seeram has blamed the failure of the team to stick to the game plan as the reason for the team’s opening round defeat to Jamaica Monday night.