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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC – West Indies plan to include Shane Shillingford in their line-up for the second Test against Sri Lanka, starting tomorrow at the Premadasa Stadium.

ABU DHABI, (Reuters) – AB de Villiers posted South  Africa’s highest individual score to give them firm control of the second test on the second day against Pakistan at the Sheikh  Zayed Stadium yesterday.

NAGPUR, India, (Reuters) – Half-centuries from each  of India’s top-order batsmen gave the hosts control of the third  and final test after their bowlers had dismissed New Zealand for  193 on the second day yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Striding on to court at the O2  Arena yesterday Andy Murray could be forgiven for thinking he had stumbled into a rock concert and he responded with a virtuoso display to kickstart the ATP World Tour finals.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Roger Federer got straight down  to business at the ATP World Tour Finals yesterday when the  world number two trounced Spain’s David Ferrer 6-1 6-4.

TORONTO, (Reuters) – Amir Johnson made a pair of  free throws with two seconds remaining to give the Toronto  Raptors a 102-101 win over the Boston Celtics yesterday.

President of Alpha United Football Club Odinga Lumumba believes that while the Kashif and Shanghai tournament is a positive for the development of football in the country the organisers are exploiting the players’ talents and not properly compensating them.

Suriname continued to be dominant in the ongoing second leg of the Inter-Guiana Games (IGG) sweeping the top positions in the male teams  and female individual cycling time trials yesterday

Defending champion Avinash Persaud recorded the best overall gross while his younger sibling Avinda Kishore shot the best net on a rain-affected opening day of the R1 Vodka sponsored Guyana Open Golf championships at Lusignan Golf Course.

COLOMBO– On all available evidence, it was bound to be an embarrassing mismatch.

Guyana’s junior national basketball team’s long and arduous training leading up to the Inter-Guiana Games (IGG) paid dividends when they defeated French Guiana 69-62 Friday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

The Disciplinary Committee of the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) met on Friday and instituted lifetime bans on Clevlon Rock, Dexter Jordon and Devon Boatswain.

COLOMBO – It is ironic, if not surprising, that Shane Shillingford should be reported for a suspected illegal bowling action in the home island of Muttiah Muralitheran, the most successful and famous of all bent-elbow bowlers the game has known.

Pernell Schultz and Aubrey Clarke scored two goals each to propel Cultural Centre Tarmac Futsal Team to a comfortable victory over Meadowbrook in the Guinness Greatest of de Street competition Friday night on the Cultural Centre Tarmac.

Keishar’s Gift Shoppe became the latest business entity to support the BK International Western Tigers’ inaugural Super Eight knockout tournament.

The South Turkeyen Sports Committee (STSC) has scheduled its ‘Domino Showdown’ competition for today at the Big Jeles Guinness Bar, Mahaicony from 13:00 hours.

ABU DHABI (Reuters) – Centuries by AB de Villiers and Jacques Kallis put South Africa back on track after Pakistan’s pace bowlers had ripped through their opening batsmen on the first day of the second test yesterday.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Chris Gayle’s monumental second Test triple-hundred has landed him a top-10 place in the World Test batting rankings, surprisingly, for the first time.

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – Rain continued to hamper West Indies-A and Pakistan-A in the opening four-day “Test” yesterday.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Gus Logie will become the new Jamaica coach on December 1.