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By Marlon Munroe Barbados maintained their stranglehold against Guyana yesterday after pacer Tino Best and Ryan Hinds conspired to exhibit the home team’s  poor batting performance in the WICB regional four-day tournament at the Albion Community Development Centre ground yesterday.

The Anjue and Hamlet racecourse will come alive today when the Kid’s First Fund non-profit organization and the IMRARC Cane Grove stage a grand Gymkhana horse race meet from 13:00hrs.

Guyana suffered two agonizing losses to their campaign at the International Rugby Board (IRB) USA Sevens World Series yesterday in Las Vegas, USA losing by huge margins to Australia and New Zealand according to the International Rugby Board (iRB) website.

PROVIDENCE, Guyana, CMC – Leg-spinner Odean Brown claimed a career-best eight wickets for 54 runs from 28.4 overs to secure first innings lead for tournament leaders Jamaica over the Combined Campuses & Colleges in the WICB regional first-class championship yesterday.

BRISBANE, Australia,  CMC – Red hot opener Shane Watson will make a return to the Australia side for the fourth One-Day International against West Indies, following an injury to Shaun Marsh.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Rookie teenaged West Indies opener Adrian Barath has revealed his frustration at having to watch the regional side struggle on the current one-day tour of Australia but believes the embattled side can hit back.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates,  CMC – War torn Afghanistan and minnows Ireland, coached by former West Indies all-rounder Phil Simmons, will do battle in the World Twenty20 Championship in the Caribbean later this year after reaching the final of the ICC qualifying tournament yesterday.

CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – A West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) commissioned survey has upheld cricket’s popularity in Caribbean sport while listing team captain Chris Gayle, Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Dwayne Bravo as the team’s biggest stars.

-Williams, Straker take junior honours Flashy Guyana and West Indies batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan and world-rated squash player Nicolette Fernandes were named the 2009 Sportsman and Sportswoman by the National Sports Commission (NSC) when a panel of 14 met yesterday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

By Marlon Munroe Barbados were sitting pretty after the first day of their fifth round clash of the West Indies Cricket Board regional four-day tournament against Guyana at the Albion Community Development Centre ground yesterday.

The sight-seeing under the bright lights of Sin City is over for Guyana’s ruggers who will today begin their quest for glory in this year’s International Rugby Board (IRB) United States of America Sevens World Series in Les Vegas.

Evergreen Guyanese leg-spinning all-rounder Mahendra Nagamootoo continues to impress in Trinidad and Tobago.

Winner of last week-end’s A. H and L Kisson sponsored medal Play golf tournament will be among the favourites for today’s Elisha Bacchus sponsored medal Play event at the Lusignan Golf Club.

-Coach Roberts rewarded for decades of contribution to cycling The Flying Ace Cycle Club of Berbice recently held its annual awards ceremony at the New Amsterdam Town Hall where cyclists, the club secretary and two media operatives received awards.

The inner circuit of the National Park will be a hive of activity this morning when the Roraima Bikers Club in collaboration with the Guyana Cycling Federation stages its fourth annual George `Boy Blue’ Cumberbatch Memorial cycle race.

Banks DIH dominoes mixed team suffered mixed fortunes in two matches played recently at Thirst Park.

Hodge 61, Cornwall 23*, Shillingford 2 – 73 By Kizan Brumell The Leeward Islands reached 254 – 5 at the end of the first day’s play of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) four-day, first-class competition against the Windward Islands at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground, Bourda, yesterday.

PROVIDENCE, Guyana, CMC – A memorable spell of spin bowling from Ryan Austin saw tournament leaders Jamaica collapse dramatically under lights against the Combined Campuses and Colleges in the WICB regional first-class championship yesterday.

KOLKATA, India, (Reuters) – South Africa aim to carry  their good form into the final test against top-ranked India starting tomorrow after taking a 1-0 lead in the two-match series.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates,  CMC – The Netherlands snapped Afghanistan’s unbeaten run in the ICC World Twenty20 Qualifying competition yesterday and a first defeat for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) left the qualifying race wide open.