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GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – Unbeaten Barbados Royals won their fifth on the trot to send their clearest signal yet of their Caribbean Premier League title challenge, when they defeated Jamaica Tallawahs by eight wickets here yesterday.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Spanish teenager Carlos Alcaraz claimed his first Grand Slam title and took the world number one ranking with a 6-4 2-6 7-6(1) 6-3 win over Norway’s Casper Ruud in the U.S.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Openers Alex Lees and Zak Crawley steered England to the brink of victory over South Africa in the decisive third test at The Oval as the home side reached 97 without loss chasing a modest 130 before bad light intervened on the fourth day yesterday.

History was created last evening as Charlestown Secondary became the first school to secure the boy and girl’s ExxonMobil football championships at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

Guyana Amazon Warriors 162/4 (Klaasen 61*, Hetmyer 32 ; Royal 2/15, Chase 1/25) beat Saint Lucia Kings 161/7 (Charles 87, du Plessis 31; Shamsi 2/14, Paul 2/27) by six wickets    Guyana Amazon Warriors secured their first victory of the 2022 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) season with a win over Saint Lucia Kings by six wickets in front of a lively home crowd last night.

In keeping with His Excellency, President Irfaan Ali’s theme of ‘One Guyana’, the boxing association of Guyana has taken a stance to decentralize the fistic sport starting this weekend. 

A visit by FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich to Guyana later this year and the expansion of chess in the Americas were some of the decisions made at the 2022 FIDE Congress held recently in Chennai, India.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Spanish teenager Carlos Alcaraz ended Frances Tiafoe’s dream run at the U.S.

GCC walked away with the men, women and girl’s U20 division titles while Old Fort copped the boy’s U20 division when the Lucozade indoor hockey championships concluded yesterday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, Homestretch Avenue.

Botofago and Winners Connection secured contrasting wins when the Upper Demerara Football Associa-tion (UDFA) senior men’s League continued yesterday at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground, Linden.

LONDON, (Reuters) – On a day of tumbling wickets, seamer Ollie Robinson took five for 49 as England skittled South Africa  for 118 on the third day of the third test at The Oval yesterday, before grinding their way to 154 for seven in reply, a lead of 36 runs.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – Trinbago Knight Riders slumped to their second defeat in three outings after their batting suffered yet another meltdown in pursuit of a gettable target against Jamaica Tallawahs here yesterday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – World number one Iga Swiatek swept to victory over Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur 6-2 7-6(5) in the U.S.

When tomorrow dawns Guyana’s Stephan Da Silva could be a world champion.

British High Commissioner, Jane Miller, recently handed over a quantity of sports kits to the Guyana Rugby Football Union, (GRFU) at the National Park.

The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) in collaboration with the National Sports Commission (NSC) Open two-player, team, table-tennis tournament will serve off tomorrow at the National Gymnasium.

LAHORE, Pakistan, (Reuters) – Former Australia opener Matthew Hayden will reunite with the Pakistan team to mentor the side at the Twenty20 World Cup in Australia beginning next month, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said yesterday.

LONDON, CMC – Reggae Boy scored a late goal as English Premier League club West Ham United came from behind to defeat Romanian side FCSB 3-1 in their Europa Conference League Group B opener at London Stadium on Thursday night.

Yes, it was another chasing side winning in Dubai, the venue now having seen 17 victories for chasing sides in the last 20 T20Is.

(Reuters) – Czech javelin world record holder Barbora Spotakova announced her retirement from the sport yesterday, the Czech Athletics Federation said in a statement.