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(Reuters) – Twenty20 World Cup group stage results and standings yesterday.

NOTTINGHAM, England,  CMC – Kumar Sangakkara and Tillakaratne Dilshan scored purposeful half-centuries to help Sri Lanka dump Australia from the ICC World Twenty20 Championship yesterday with a six-wicket victory.

TAUNTON, England, CMC – West Indies Women gained a timely boost of confidence ahead of the ICC Women’s World Twenty20 Championship, when they rolled over Pakistan Women by 26 runs in a weather-affected warm-up match yesterday.

MADRID, (Reuters) – Real Madrid have signed Brazilian  midfielder Kaka from AC Milan, the Primera Liga club said on  their website (www.realmadrid.com)

NOTTINGHAM, England, CMC – Kevin O’Brien hit an unbeaten 39 from 17 balls to help Ireland seal a place in the Super Eights of the ICC World Twenty20 Championship, when they prevailed over Bangladesh by six wickets yesterday.

NOTTINGHAM, England,  CMC – Most West Indies fans were thrilled to see and hear that their side had conquered a quality team like Australia in their opening match last Saturday in the ICC World Twenty20 Championship.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – The Los Angeles Lakers  pulled out a gritty 101-96 overtime victory over the Orlando Magic on Sunday to take a 2-0 lead in the NBA Finals.

KAMPALA, Uganda,  CMC – Brian Lara has pointed Uganda’s authorities to Twenty20 cricket to help them spread the game in the north-east African nation.

Over 3000 die-hard basketball fans turned up at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall Saturday night to see North Ruimveldt edge Wortmanville/Werk-en-Rust 74-72 in game one of their best-in-three finals.

– Abigail Mc Donald Newly crowned National Scrabble Champion Abigail McDonald said that winning the title this year came as no surprise since she was always expected to lift the coveted trophy.

LONDON, (Reuters) – AB de Villiers cracked 79 from 34  balls to inspire South Africa to a crushing 130-run victory over Scotland in their Twenty20 World Cup group D match at the Oval yesterday.

ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – Jenson Button ran away with the  Turkish Grand Prix yesterday to stretch his overall Formula One  lead to 26 points with a sparkling sixth victory from seven  races.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England batted purposefully, bowled accurately and fielded athletically to avert an early  departure from the Twenty20 World Cup with a comfortable 48-run  win over Pakistan yesterday.

Lowe and Brian outstanding again Guyana’s two young leading table tennis players Trenace Lowe and Nigel Bryan again took center stage at the Medicine Chest-sponsored tournament which concluded yesterday at the Malteenoes Sports Club.

The Mike’s Pharmacy 15-Over Countrywide Softball Competition which is organized by the Guyana Softball League (GSL) was officially launched Thursday after the handing over of the sponsorship cheque.

BACOLET, Tobago, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago’s World Cup hopes suffered another huge blow Saturday evening when they went down -2-3 to Costa Rica in their latest CONCACAF qualifier for the 2010 Finals in South Africa.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Brazil went top of the  South American World Cup qualifying group with an astonishing  4-0 win in Uruguay on Saturday as previous leaders Paraguay  slumped to a 2-0 home defeat by Chile.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Mexico slumped to their  fourth successive away defeat in World Cup qualifiers with a  2-1 reverse in El Salvador on Saturday, while the United States  recovered to get their campaign back on track for South Africa.

– Roger Federer finally won the French Open crown  becoming in the process the sixth person to win Grand Slam tournaments on four different surfaces and equalling Pete Sampras’s record of 14 major titles PARIS, (Reuters) – As Roger Federer watched the yellow ball spin into the other side of the net, he sank to his  knees, covered his face and knew that the French Open trophy was  his at last.

(Reuters) – A list of grand slams that Pete Sampras  and Roger Federer have won after Federer equalled Sampras’s  record of 14 titles at the French Open yesterday.