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ADELAIDE, Australia, CMC – South Australia got only a moderate contribution from their big-hitting Trinidadian Kieron Pollard but still clobbered Queensland by four wickets yesterday to jump to the top of Australia’s Twenty20 Big Bash tournament standings.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Trinidad & Tobago’s football magnate Jack Warner has urged more monetary support for national teams this year and says unless this happens, football authorities may be forced to make crucial amendments to the national structure.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The Leeward Islands Cricket Association (LICA) announced a 13-man squad this weekend with Steve Liburd as captain for the start of the 2010 West Indies first-class season.

CAPE TOWN,  (Reuters) – Jacques Kallis defied England  with another composed century to lift South Africa to 279 for  six on the first day of the third test yesterday.

(BBC) Mohammad Asif claimed a career-best 6-41 as Pakistan skittled Australia for their lowest Sydney total in 15 years on day one of the second Test yesterday.

LONDON, England, CMC – Guyana’s squash ace Nicolette Fernandes is the biggest mover among the women’s world top 100 players in the January ratings released on Friday.

MELBOURNE, Australia,  CMC – West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo believes the recent Test series against Australia has led to his good form in the Twenty20 Big Bash and says he is intent on dominating the glitzy domestic tournament.

– Camptown stump Pele 4-2 for third According to the Chinese Zodiac, the Year of 2010 is the ‘Year of the Tiger’, which begins on February 14.

“Competition wise, this year is one of our best ever in 20 years,” said Kashif Muhammad, co-organiser  of the Kashif and Shanghai Football tournament which wrapped up last Friday at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence.

Cozier on Sunday For ages strong and dynamic, universally envied and admired, pride of the people of the small, scattered otherwise insignificant third world territories it represented, West Indies cricket had suddenly gone into sharp decline in the last decade of the 20th century.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Astonishing achievements in athletics once again shot the Caribbean to international prominence but a bitter, divisive cricket dispute between the region’s major stakeholders marred last year and propelled the sport to the brink of collapse.

MELBOURNE, Australia, CMC – Effervescent West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo snatched three wickets and then played a cameo to lift Victoria Bushrangers to a handsome six-wicket victory over New South Wales Blues with two balls to spare in the Twenty20 Big Bash yesterday.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – England’s Paul Collingwood  played a full part in practice yesterday, leaving South Africa with the tough selection decisions for the third test starting today.

KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC) – Jamaica’s coach Junior Bennett believes his charges possess the quality to defend their WICB regional four-day title and complete a hat-trick of wins.

ATLANTA, (Reuters) – Nate Robinson made an emphatic  return to the New York Knicks lineup after a month in the  wilderness on Friday, the guard scoring 41 points to lead his  team to a 112-108 overtime win over the Atlanta Hawks.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Trinidad & Tobago captain Daren Ganga says his New Year wish is to reestablish himself in the West Indies team.

Says Rawle Toney Tonight, all roads will lead the Guyana National Stadium at Providence where Alpha United will face off against BK International Western Tigers for the Kashif and Shanghai 20th football tournament championship.

By Rawle Toney Presidents of Alpha United and BK International Western Tigers, Odinga Lumumba and Gordon Gilhuys respectively, say that tonight’s clash in the final of the 20th Kashif and Shanghai football tournament, is going to be nothing short of an all-out war.

(Jamaica Observer) Santa Cruz, St Elizabeth — West Indies fast bowler Jerome Taylor was arrested by police in Junction, St Elizabeth last night on charges of improper conduct, assaulting police and resisting arrest following an alleged altercation with a police officer at a bar in Junction.

National captain Daren Ganga says that although it was disappointing losing to the National ‘A’ team in the T&T Cricket Board (TTCB) T20 Cricket Festival, the loss came at the right time.