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Jimmy Butler scored a game-high 35 points, and the Miami Heat set an NBA record by making all 40 of their free throws in a 112-111 win over the visiting Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday night.

Pretoria, South Africa- West Indies Women’s Rising Stars knocked off the 71-run target, set for them by Zimbabwe, in 12.5 overs. 

(Reuters) – Devon Conway and Kane Williamson led New Zealand to a comfortable 79-run win over Pakistan in the second one-day international in Karachi yesterday to level the series at 1-1.

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) has postponed the start of the first of two practice matches aimed at arriving at the Guyana national team for the upcoming Cricket West Indies’ Regional first class season.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, CMC – Organisers have placed 30 000 tickets on sale for next month’s Women’s Twenty20 World Cup here, as the 30-day countdown to the International Cricket Council showpiece began yesterday.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Lionel Messi celebrated his return to competition after the World Cup by scoring a second-half goal as Paris St Germain extended their Ligue 1 lead to six points with a 2-0 home win over Angers yesterday.

(ICC) The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced the winners of the ICC Player of the Month awards for December 2022 with Harry Brook claiming his maiden ICC Men’s Player of the Month crown thanks to a blistering run of scores which helped England claim an historic ICC World Test Championship (WTC) series victory in Pakistan.

The Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) which ended last year on a high with the staging of its flagship national championships, has already started planning to host its first tournament for 2023.

The annual football tournament in honour of former Mayor of Georgetown Hamilton Green will be played later this month.

PARIS, (Reuters) – The head of the French Football Federation’s (FFF) national ethics committee has called for the governing body’s president Noel Le Graet to step down from his role.

MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – Marcus Rashford was on target for the sixth successive match in all competitions as his late double helped Manchester United beat third-tier Charlton Athletic 3-0 to reach the League Cup semi-finals yesterday.

Jrue Holiday snapped out of a game-long slump by scoring 10 points in the final 2:30 on Monday night for the visiting Milwaukee Bucks, who overcame a 17-point, third-quarter deficit to edge the New York Knicks 111-107.

(Reuters) – Virat Kohli struck a brilliant century to guide India to a 67-run victory over Sri Lanka in the first of their three-match one-day international series in Guwahati yesterday.

Star batter Dewald Brevis smashed an unbeaten 70 to take MI Cape Town to a comfortable eight-wicket win against the Paarl Royals in the Betway SA20 opening match at Six Gun Grill Newlands last evening.

ADELAIDE, (Reuters) – Former French Open champion Barbora Krejcikova made a stuttering start to her 2023 season in the opening round of the Adelaide International 2 yesterday, shaking off the rust in a 6-2 7-6(3) victory over Alison Riske-Amritraj.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia have kept their bowling options wide open for the upcoming tour of India and named four spinners and six pace bowlers in their squad for the four test matches in February and March.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Seam bowler Cherry Ann Fraser has been ruled out of the upcoming T20 International (T20I) tri-nation series against South Africa and India due to injury and has been replaced by Shanika Bruce, Cricket West Indies (CWI) announced yesterday.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaican Stephanie Yee-Sing has been chosen to officiate at a second FIFA Women’s World Cup.

UNITED KINGDOM, CMC – Golden Jaguars midfielder Neil Danns has been appointed head coach of English professional football club Macclesfield FC, his first permanent managerial role in the sport.

Sixteen of the country’s strongest football teams will clash from January 20 in a lucrative knockout tournament.