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LONDON, (Reuters) – Australia all-rounder Andrew  Symonds is being sent home from the World Twenty20 tournament in  England for disciplinary reasons, Cricket Australia (CA) said yesterday.

(Reuters) – Test-match crowds have steadily dwindled  throughout much of the cricketing world while fans turn instead  to 50-over and Twenty20 matches      In advance of the Twenty20 World Cup opening at Lord’s today, Reuters correspondents examine attendances in the major  countries: AUSTRALIA Melbourne regularly attracts crowds of more than 200,000 for  each test match and Sydney generally pulls in between 100,000  and 200,000.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago are back as the top team in the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) for the first time in eight months, unseating Jamaica in the latest ratings.

Jaguars go down to Antigua again -after leading at half time It was nothing golden about Guyana’s start in the Parbo Bier cup in Suriname as they lost their opening game to Antigua 2-1 at the Andre Kampervene Stadium last evening.

in The Bahamas The 59th annual congress of the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)  ended yesterday here at the Atlantis Hotel, Paradise Island, Nassau with FIFA president Sepp Blatter declaring himself a “very happy president” despite failing to push through with the 6+5 ruling.

“At long last” said some ardent boxing fans when news of the S and S Promotion 36 rounds card broke yesterday.

…at Independence Table Tennis Tourney Trenace Lowe and Nigel Bryan were adjudged the most outstanding performers at this year’s Ministry of Sports and National Sports Commission (NSC) Independence Table Tennis Tournament which concluded yesterday with the presentation of prizes at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

The Camptown Football Club will be hosting a four-team two-day competition under floodlights as a fund-raising event to enhance their training facility.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Rohit Sharma, deputising for the  injured Virender Sehwag, showed India had another opening option  with 80 from 53 balls as the world Twenty20 champions defeated  Pakistan by nine wickets at the Oval yesterday.

LONDON, England, CMC – West Indies failed miserably in their bid to find a confidence-boosting win ahead of the start of the World Twenty20 Championship, when they crashed to a nine-wicket defeat to England at Lord’s yesterday.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Argentine fifth seed Juan Martin  del Potro overcame a bout of jitters to stroll into his first  grand slam semi-final with a 6-3 6-4 6-2 win over Spaniard Tommy  Robredo at the French Open yesterday.

PARIS, (Reuters) – A new name will be engraved on the  Suzanne Lenglen Cup after a courageous Svetlana Kuznetsova  exacted sweet revenge on Serena Williams to reach the French  Open semi-finals yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – An unprecedented auction in  Mumbai last year transformed the face of cricket between the  first two Twenty20 World Cups.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Less than a week after  torpedoing the eagerly anticipated Kobe versus LeBron showdown,  the upstart Orlando Magic aim to play giant-killers once more  when they face the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA Finals.

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Usain Bolt, the 100 and 200  meters Olympic champion and world record holder, has ruled out  running for three individual golds at the 2012 London Games.

Golden Jaguars aiming for revenge against Antigua The last time Guyana and Antigua met was in the final round of last year’s Digicel Caribbean championships where the locals lost two goals to one; now seven months later, the two sides will meet in the opening game of this year’s Parbo Bier Cup in Suriname.

From Donald Duff in Nassau, The BahamasThe opening ceremony of the Internationale de Football Association’s (FIFA) 59th annual congress held at the Imperial Ballroom of the Atlantis Hotel on Paradise Island came close to matching the name of the island itself.

Guyanese Claudius Butts is more than likely to be named captain of the West Indies Select Sevens Rugby team that will take part in the Abbotsford International Sevens Tournament, Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, from July 19-26, according to President of the West Indies Rugby Union, Christopher Nascimento.

Pedro’s five trounces UG -Uprising crushes Black Pearl Five fiery goals from Santos’ Michael Pedro were just what the doctor ordered when they opposed the University of Guyana (UG) who plunged to a humiliating defeat while Black Pearl were crushed by Uprising as another round of the Georgetown Football Association’s (GFA) Western Union First Division competition was contested at the Camptown ground.

Rangers Sports Club defeated Zeeburg Warriors to be the first team to enter the national quarterfinal round of the Guyana Softball League organized Trophy Stall 15-Over countrywide competition.