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MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka are backing Muttiah  Muralitharan to return to form in the third and final Test  against India starting on Wednesday, the master spinner’s last  overseas Test.

By Rawle Toney The Guyana Football Federation’s (GFF) Win in  CONCACAF with CONCACAF Super League competition  had a fitting climax Sunday evening at the Guyana National Stadium Providence as the ‘Hammer’, Alpha United triumphed 2-1 over the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) to take the one million dollars first prize and the right to be called “Guyana’s Top Football Club”.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Patrick Manning has expressed an interest in the country staging the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

She is well known for wielding a tennis racquet – to successful and telling effect – but on Sunday, world No.

– Auto Fashion sponsors second place trophy and medals By Rawle Toney Edward Beharry yesterday plugged in excess of $2M into the staging of this year’s Kashif and Shanghai Football Tournament while Auto Fashion for the seventh year has remained on board.

Raj Seepersaud and Winston Thomas, two overseas-based cyclists of the Flying Ace Cycle Club, recently donated a quantity of cycling gear to the club.

The eighth Annual Edwin “Chow” Sealey Memorial U-17  7–A–Side Football Competition for schools in Georgetown will commence at the Tucville Football Ground from today and will run until December 18.

By Marlon Munroe A night of good basketball in front of a sparse Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) crowd ended with Ravens toppling number one ranked club Courts Pacesetters in both the first and third division finals of the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) knockout championships.

As their leading fast bowler, Jerome Taylor, headed back to the Caribbean from the West Indies’ tour of Australia for treatment on his damaged hip, the West Indies selectors were yesterday ready to name his replacement, probably fellow Jamaican Andrew Richardson.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Organisers for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in India are confident Jamaica’s colossal sprint star Usain Bolt will compete at the event next October in New Delhi.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Women’s World No.1 tennis player Serena Williams outclassed Denmark’s Caroline Wozniacki in an exhibition match at the Wildey Gymnasium on Saturday night.

ADELAIDE, Australia,  CMC – Fast bowler Ben Hilfenhaus, who helped Australia whip West Indies in the first Test at the Gabba, has been ruled out of the second Test later this week because of a knee injury.

MELBOURNE, Australia, CMC – Rock-bottom TV ratings have been revealed for the lop-sided first Test at the Gabba where hosts Australia crushed West Indies in a massive innings triumph.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Tiger Woods pulled out of a golf  tournament this week, the latest fall-out from a minor car  accident that has left a swirl of mystery and a hint of scandal  around the world’s top golfer and pushed him into full damage  control.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Erratic young batsman Xavier Marshall smashed a shot-filled half century to place David Bernard’s XI in control of Jamaica’s latest practice match for the 2010 West Indies first-class season on Sunday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – World number one Serena Williams  has been fined $175,000 and put on probation for two years for  her foul-mouthed tirade at the U.S.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – The New Jersey Nets fired  coach Lawrence Frank on the same day their nightmare season  took a historic turn as they slumped to 0-17, matching the NBA  record for worst start to a season, on Sunday.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Ireland have appealed to  world governing body FIFA to be allowed to compete as a 33rd  team in next year’s World Cup finals, FIFA president Sepp  Blatter said yesterday.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – His Test debut came almost six months later than scheduled, and on the other side of the World.

By Marlon Munroe Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) recorded a comfortable eight-wicket victory over Lusignan Cricket Club (LCC) while Malteenoes Sports Club gained first innings honours in the drawn encounter against New Line Cavaliers (NLC) in the second round of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) first division three-day competition.