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By Marlon Munroe West Indies middle order batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan was named Cricketer-of-the-Year on Tuesday evening when the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) hosted its annual awards presentation ceremony at the Umana Yana in Kingston.

BROOKLYN, New York, CMC – Popular United States-based Caribbean publication Everybody’s Magazine has named Jamaica’s sprint superstar Usain Bolt as its “Person of the Year.”

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Manchester United and Arsenal  closed the gap on Premier League leaders Chelsea with classy,  one-sided wins over struggling Wigan Athletic and Portsmouth yesterday.

ATLANTA, (Reuters) – The Cleveland Cavaliers used stingy defense and a fourth quarter burst to beat the Atlanta Hawks 95-84 on Tuesday and post their fifth straight win.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – Shawn Findlay stroked a top score of 78 and led a trio of batsmen getting half centuries on Tuesday’s second day of Jamaica’s last practice match ahead of the 2010 West Indies first-class season.

DURBAN, South Africa, (Reuters) – Graeme Swann and  Stuart Broad bowled South Africa out for 133 as England  completed victory by an innings and 98 runs on the fifth day of  the second test at Kingsmead yesterday.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The South team’s Sherwin Ganga and his Northern counterpart Daron Cruikshank hit contrasting centuries Tuesday to set up an exciting finale in the annual Gerry Gomez Classic at the Queen’s Park Oval.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Ousted General Secretary of the T&T Cricket Board (TTCB) Forbes Persaud has had his contract as Chief Executive Officer terminated by the new executive.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Regional players union boss Dinanath Ramnarine has hit back at comments by West Indies Cricket Board CEO Ernest Hilaire, as storm clouds continued to gather over next month’s start of the regional four-day tournament.

HOBART, Australia, CMC – Barbadian all-rounder Dwayne Smith and his New South Wales (NSW) opened their campaign in Australia’s Twenty20 Big Bash tournament with a 31-run triumph over Tasmania yesterday.

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Several former West Indies players, including legendary captain Sir Vivian Richards, are slated to attend the funeral of Dominica’s former Test pacer Grayson Shillingford today.

-defending champs Pele, Sunburst Camptown ousted in penalty shoot-outs Super-League champions Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United will clash with BK Western Tigers in the Kashif and Shanghai football final on Friday (New Year’s Day) following success in their semi-final encounters played Monday evening at the National Stadium at Providence.

By Rawle Toney “I think it was just their time to shine.”

By Rawle Toney The referees in this year’s Kashif and Shanghai football tournament are being criticised for poor decision-making.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – The sex scandal that engulfed Tiger Woods may have cost shareholders of companies endorsed by the world’s No.

PERTH, Australia,  CMC – West Indies captain Chris Gayle defied a side strain to smash a typical whirlwind 44 but his efforts proved in vain as Western Australia plunged to a 29-run loss to Trinidadian Kieron Pollard’s South Australia in the Twenty20 Big Bash yesterday.

PERTH, Australia, CMC – Talismanic captain Chris Gayle was set to undergo scans on his injured left-side this morning, sparking doubts over his continued involvement in Twenty20 Big Bash and his availability for West Indies’ one-day tour here next month.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Out-of-favour Test batsman Daren Ganga missed out on a century but his younger brother Sherwin was closing in on one, at the close on the second day of the Gerry Gomez North/South Classic on Monday.

-Broad, Swann leave homesters reeling on 76-6 DURBAN, South Africa, (Reuters) – Graeme Swann and  Stuart Broad ripped through South Africa’s top order to put  England on the brink of victory on the fourth day of the second  test yesterday.

(BBC) Shane Watson yesterday hit his first Test century as Australia set Pakistan a daunting total of 422 to win the first Test.