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Trinidad, CMC – Former West Indies team manager Omar Khan has lashed out at regional selectors over their axing of wicketkeeper .

Another double header is carded for the Lusignan Golf Club as players continue their rivalry in the Sanjay’s Jewellery and Citizens Bank Players Championship this weekend.

CASTELLON, Spain, (Reuters) – Sergio Garcia,  refreshed and bursting with energy after a self-imposed absence  of more than two months, is targeting golf’s world number one  ranking.

Richard Ishmael’s Keon Morris and Andrew Chung Joseph helped their school to a comfortable nine-wicket win over Queen’s College in the Ministry of Education/Guyana Cricket Board/National Sports Commission/Guyana Teachers’ Union 40-over tournament at the Georgetown Cricket Club ground yesterday.

(Cricinfo) Ricky Ponting has questioned whether England have the batting strength necessary to retain the Ashes by winning in Australia, a feat that hasn’t been accomplished since Mike Gatting’s team did so in 1986-87.

TRELAWNY, Jamaica,  CMC – Rain wreaked havoc on Barbados’ final game in the WICB One-Day Championship, forcing their contest with the High Performance Centre to finish in a no-result yesterday.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Chile defender Roberto Cereceda has been suspended after testing positive for cocaine and an appeal been put in motion, his club Colo Colo said yesterday.

MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – Wayne Rooney has told Manchester United he wants to quit the club, leaving manager Alex Ferguson “shocked and bemused” and paving the way for a bidding war to start for the England striker.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Embattled Australian captain Ricky Ponting is the right man to regain the Ashes from England, according to former leg-spinner Shane Warne.

HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – West Indies Test legend Brian Lara, South African golfer Ernie Els and Bermuda’s Premier Ewart Brown took time out to enjoy an impromptu game of cricket on Port Royal’s signature 16th hole during Monday’s PGA Grand Slam of Golf pro-am tournament.

-cannot account for Commonwealth Games boxers As if the no returns by the Guyana boxing contingent to the just-concluded Commonwealth Games in India were not enough the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) yesterday said they could not give an account of the whereabouts of the three-member team.

Asks Orin Davidson According to chairman of the West Indies selectors Clyde Butts, a new phase of West indies cricket is about to begin.

The two-day Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) First Division Heroes Cup match between Guyana National Industrial Corporation (GNIC) and Police ended in a draw at the Eve Leary ground on Sunday.

Newcomer Deoram Dinanauth emerged winner of the annual MACORP sponsored Medal Play golf tournament Sunday beating the largest field of players to turn out this season Lusignan golf Club.

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Former chairman of CARICOM’S Prime Ministerial Sub Committee on Cricket, Keith Mitchell has labelled Darren Sammy’s appointment as West Indies captain a positive move for regional cricket.

Chris International Movados (CIM) comfortably lifted the Guyana Tapeball Association (GTA) Super Sixes trophy and carted off $500,000 when they walked all over Lima United (LU) at the Everest Cricket Club ground on Sunday night.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Powerhouses Jamaica pulled off a spectacular 207-run victory over Combined Campuses and Colleges to romp into the semi-finals of the WICB One-Day Championship yesterday, days after they seemed poised to be dumped from the competition.

– promoter calls for gov’t support The world-renowned Enter-tainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) is the latest in the list of companies to get involved with the much anticipated Caribbean Fury 2 boxing card slated for November 6 at the Princess International Hotel.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – Trinidad and Tobago were dumped from the WICB One-Day Championship yesterday as the Windward Islands impressively marched to their third straight win with an eight-wicket victory at Sabina Park.

SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – FIFA vice-president Reynald Temarii welcomes a “full and thorough investigation” into newspaper claims he offered to sell his vote in the contest to host the 2018 soccer World Cup, his confederation said yesterday.