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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, CMC – Organisers have placed 30 000 tickets on sale for next month’s Women’s Twenty20 World Cup here, as the 30-day countdown to the International Cricket Council showpiece began yesterday.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Lionel Messi celebrated his return to competition after the World Cup by scoring a second-half goal as Paris St Germain extended their Ligue 1 lead to six points with a 2-0 home win over Angers yesterday.

(ICC) The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced the winners of the ICC Player of the Month awards for December 2022 with Harry Brook claiming his maiden ICC Men’s Player of the Month crown thanks to a blistering run of scores which helped England claim an historic ICC World Test Championship (WTC) series victory in Pakistan.

The Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) which ended last year on a high with the staging of its flagship national championships, has already started planning to host its first tournament for 2023.

The annual football tournament in honour of former Mayor of Georgetown Hamilton Green will be played later this month.

PARIS, (Reuters) – The head of the French Football Federation’s (FFF) national ethics committee has called for the governing body’s president Noel Le Graet to step down from his role.

MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – Marcus Rashford was on target for the sixth successive match in all competitions as his late double helped Manchester United beat third-tier Charlton Athletic 3-0 to reach the League Cup semi-finals yesterday.

Jrue Holiday snapped out of a game-long slump by scoring 10 points in the final 2:30 on Monday night for the visiting Milwaukee Bucks, who overcame a 17-point, third-quarter deficit to edge the New York Knicks 111-107.

(Reuters) – Virat Kohli struck a brilliant century to guide India to a 67-run victory over Sri Lanka in the first of their three-match one-day international series in Guwahati yesterday.

Star batter Dewald Brevis smashed an unbeaten 70 to take MI Cape Town to a comfortable eight-wicket win against the Paarl Royals in the Betway SA20 opening match at Six Gun Grill Newlands last evening.

ADELAIDE, (Reuters) – Former French Open champion Barbora Krejcikova made a stuttering start to her 2023 season in the opening round of the Adelaide International 2 yesterday, shaking off the rust in a 6-2 7-6(3) victory over Alison Riske-Amritraj.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia have kept their bowling options wide open for the upcoming tour of India and named four spinners and six pace bowlers in their squad for the four test matches in February and March.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Seam bowler Cherry Ann Fraser has been ruled out of the upcoming T20 International (T20I) tri-nation series against South Africa and India due to injury and has been replaced by Shanika Bruce, Cricket West Indies (CWI) announced yesterday.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaican Stephanie Yee-Sing has been chosen to officiate at a second FIFA Women’s World Cup.

UNITED KINGDOM, CMC – Golden Jaguars midfielder Neil Danns has been appointed head coach of English professional football club Macclesfield FC, his first permanent managerial role in the sport.

Sixteen of the country’s strongest football teams will clash from January 20 in a lucrative knockout tournament.

When the Guyana national cricket selectors sat down recently to name the two sides for this week’s practice match to help them arrive at the Guyana Harpy Eagles side which will contest Cricket West Indies (CWI) Regional Four-Day Championships a number of names were missing.

Sherwin Johnson, one of Guyana’s most highly respected referees has announced his retirement after 13 years on the field.

(Reuters) – France Football Federation (FFF) president Noel Le Graet apologised to Zinedine Zidane yesterday after his comments on the former Real Madrid coach drew the ire of players, politicians and even the Spanish club.

(Reuters) – Fast bowler Naseem Shah picked up five wickets before the trio of Fakhar Zaman, Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan all scored half-centuries as Pakistan chased down a target of 256 for a comfortable six-wicket win over New Zealand yesterday.