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Should the West Indies beat Australia in the third and final Test in Perth to level the series 1-1, captain Chris Gayle contends “they should give us a trophy”.

SYDNEY, Australia, CMC – West Indies players Stacy-Ann King, Deandra Dottin and Shanel Daley have been posting prominent performances playing professional women’s cricket in Australia.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts,  CMC – West Indies Under-19 coach Andre Coley has described as “satisfying”, Monday’s warm-up victory over Canada for next month’s Youth World Cup in New Zealand.

By Marlon Munroe President of the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) Errol Tiwari claims that Guyana should regain its accreditation with the world governing body Federation Intern-ationale des Echecs (FIDE) by year end.

The Edwin ‘Chow’ Sealey Memorial Schools Football Competition concludes today at the National Gymnasium with the semi-finals and final.

RAJKOT, India,  (Reuters) – India survived a thrilling  Sri Lanka run chase to clinch a three-run win in the first-one  day international as the teams piled up more than 800 runs  between them yesterday.

Gavin Todd continues to be a force to be reckoned with this season when he captured the RRT Enterprises Medal Play Golf tournament last Saturday as the curtains draw closer to the end of the Lusignan Golf Club’s (LTC) 2009 season.

CHICAGO, (Reuters) – Trading card and memorabilia company Upper Deck said yesterday that it would not end its sponsor deals with Tiger Woods, who has admitted to marital infidelity and has had other sponsors back away from him as a  result.  

– Grove Hi-Tech stun Milerock When Pele and international striker Gregory ‘Jackie Chan’ Richardson told Stabroek Sport last week that he was going to put on a show at the National Stadium, this writer and I suppose  many ardent readers of the sports pages were wondering just what he was going to do.

Technical Director of the Women’s football programme for the Guyana Football Federation (GFF)  Mark Rodrigues, along with coach of the local female team Wayne ‘Wiggy’ Dover and overseas coaches Edwin De Rosario and Rohan Narine are all expressing their optimism for a successful Women’s Friendly International  Tournament.The

The pitch at the WACA ground in Perth is, in every way, the centre of attention for the third and final Test between Australia and the West Indies, starting tomorrow (10.30 pm tonight east Caribbean time).

By Marlon Munroe Medium pacer Trevor Benn’s knock on the door has been answered by chairman of selectors Claude Raphael and associates.

St. Stanislaus College (SSC) `A’ Team played unbeaten to claim the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport (MCY&S) National Schools Chess Championship on Sunday at the Carifesta Avenue Sports Complex.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts,  CMC – The prolific 17-year-old batsman Kraigg Brathwaite stroked a well measured hundred as West Indies Under-19s beat Canada U19s by 71 runs on the Duckworth/Lewis method in their rain-aborted ICC 2010 Youth World Cup practice match yesterday.

WESTMOORINGS, Trinidad, CMC – The Barbadian trio of Zabrina Holder, Shannon Smith and Sariyah Sherry each ended with five individual gold medals when the 23rd Amateur Swimming Association of Trinidad and Tobago (ASATT) December Invitational ended Sunday night.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Former Pakistan captain Younus  Khan began a coaching course at the national academy in Lahore yesterday after last month asking for a break from playing international cricket.

LONDON, England, CMC – Colossal Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt has won the BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year Award for the second year in a row, becoming only the third person in history to win the award in successive years.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago snapped the Barbadians’ three-game winning streak Sunday when they whipped the home side by 31 runs in the Barbados National Sports Council’s (NSC) Invitational Under-13 cricket tournament.

PRETORIA, South Africa, (Reuters) – England  all-rounder Stuart Broad will turn down offers to play in next year’s lucrative Indian Premier League (IPL) in order to be in peak form for the 2010 Ashes in Australia, he said yesterday.

Dwayne Smith has been signed on for the New South Wales Blues for Australia’s inter-state Twenty20 series in January, making the all-rounder unavailable for Barbados until at least the fourth round of the forthcoming regional first-class season.