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PARIS,  (Reuters) – Rampant Brazil destroyed 10-man Tunisia 5-1 in a friendly yesterday with Raphinha scoring twice and setting up another goal in their last game before the World Cup.

(Reuters) – Uruguay beat Canada 2-0 in their final friendly before the World Cup with Nicolas de la Cruz and Darwin Nunez scoring first-half goals to give the South American side victory in Bratislava yesterday.

SEVILLE, Spain,  (Reuters) – Morocco produced another impressive performance but were held to a 0-0 draw with Paraguay in their friendly in Spain yesterday.

LONDON,  CMC – West Indies Women’s captain Hayley Matthews has topped the all-rounders charts in the ICC One-Day International rankings for the first time in her career.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) launched an investigation yesterday after two Mali players were filmed fighting with each other after their team were eliminated from the Women’s World Cup.

The Amazon Warriors will have a last chance to make the finals when they tomorrow  play the winner of the eliminator this afternoon between the Jamaica Tallawahs and the St Lucia Kings.

Two nights ago the Guyana Amazon Warriors and the Barbados Royals clashed in the group stages of the Caribbean Premier League with a second place finish for Guyana and a chance to play the Barbados Royals again at stake.

Whenever the calendar flips to November, long distance runners fine tune their training to compete in the lucrative South American 10k road race.

 ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Cricket West Indies (CWI) today named the three “Rising Stars Team of the Tournament” from the recent Rising Stars Under-19, Under-17 and Under-15 Championships.

I am really disappointed to read in the Kaieteur News an article titled “Delinquent, dysfunctional AAG.” 

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India captain Rohit Sharma acknowledges bowling in the death overs remains a concern for them but backed Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Harshal Patel to regain their mojo ahead of the Twenty20 World Cup in Australia next month.

(Reuters) – England’s limited-overs coach Matthew Mott said Jos Buttler is itching to make his return from injury during their seven-match series in Pakistan but they will not take any risks with the batsman so close to the Twenty20 World Cup.

(Reuters) – World chess champion Magnus Carlsen said yesterday he believed Hans Niemann had “cheated more – and more recently – than he has publicly admitted”, adding he no longer wanted to play against the American and any rivals who repeatedly cheated in the past.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Charlie Dean’s controversial run-out on Saturday prompted heated debate about whether the dismissal was in the spirit of the game but the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) has said the onus is on batters not to leave the crease at the non-striker’s end too soon.

(Reuters) – Australia head coach Andrew McDonald said he has enough quality at his disposal to deal with any injury issues ahead of their Twenty20 World Cup title defence on home soil next month.

’Internal issues’ within the Athletic Association of Guyana (AAG) were the determining factors which ultimately disqualified the athletes from competing at the South American Games which gets underway on October 1 in Paraguay.

Guyana Amazon Warriors completed the perfect set of home victories in the Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) with a comprehensive defeat of the table topping Barbados Royals last night  The victory means the two teams will do it all again tomorrow in the first qualifier. 

President of the International Boxing Association (IBA), Umar Kremlev will remain at the helm of amateur boxing following a voting process during the body’s Extraordinary Congress yesterday in Yerevan, Armenia.

Golden Jaguar International and Sporting Kansas City II midfielder Curtez Kellman, recently concluded his maiden campaign in the Major League Soccer (MLS) Next Pro League, the third tier of US Soccer and has described the tournament as highly competitive given the quality of the players.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – A wet outfield caused by rain forced organisers to scrap yesterday’s Caribbean Premier League clash between Jamaica Tallawahs and St Lucia Kings at the Guyana National Stadium.