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MONTREAL, Canada,  (Reuters) – Nick Kyrgios’s nine-match winning streak ended in the Canadian Masters semi-finals yesterday when eighth-seeded Pole Hubert Hurkacz blasted his way to a 7-6(4) 6-7(5) 6-1 victory.

(Reuters) – Real Madrid forward Karim Benzema is among the 30 nominees on the shortlist for the prestigious men’s Ballon d’Or trophy, organisers France Football magazine announced yesterday.

LAHORE, Pakistan,  (Reuters) – Pakistan captain Babar Azam has ruled out a return for veteran all-rounder Shoaib Malik to the Twenty20 squad ahead of the World Cup in Australia, saying the team needed to give fresh talent more opportunities to develop.

(Reuters) – WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury said yesterday he is to “walk away” from boxing, two days after insisting he would make a comeback to the sport to complete a trilogy against fellow-Briton Derek Chisora.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – West Indian Kieron Pollard and New Zealand’s Trent Boult will represent MI Emirates in the inaugural International League T20 tournament in the United Arab Emirates, the Abu Dhabi-based franchise owned by Reliance Industries said yesterday.

(ESPN) With two more high-profile T20 leagues coming up, top West Indian players are set to be in great demand, and the situation has all the makings of a fresh scrap between the players and the team management, and, by extension, the cricket board.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia,  CMC – West Indies A suffered at the hands of Saif Hassan’s hundred before left-arm seamer Mirttunjoy Chowdhury struck twice to give Bangladesh A control of the second four-day “Test”.

The Golden Jaguars have seemingly withdrawn from the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Boys U14 Challenge Series, which is pencilled to commence tomorrow in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. 

Guyana will commence its 3×3 basketball campaign at the Islamic Solidarity Games in Konya, Turkey tomorrow. 

Dynamic FC upset Elite League outfit, Ann’s Grove, by a 2-0 score-line, when the East Demerara Football Association (EDFA) Senior Men’s League continued at the Buxton Community Centre, ground on Wednesday.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF), with support from the Government of Guyana, has established an Academy Training Centre (ATC) in Region Seven, which is the 10th centre in its national youth football development programme.

When Demerara Cricket Club’s (DCC) Trevon Griffith hit 300 against Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) at the former’s venue in Queenstown in March 2022, fans were questioning whose record the pugnacious left-hander was about to eclipse.

The third edition of the Junior GolFun Camp hosted by the Guyana Golf Association (GGA) and Nexgen Golf Academy tees off on Monday from 16:00 hours at the Scouts Association Ground on Woolford Avenue, Georgetown.

The Lady Jaguars football roster, which competed at the recently concluded CONCACAF Girls U15 Championship in Tampa Bay, Florida, USA, only comprised 14 players owing to travel related issues.

By Charwayne Walker When Aubrey Bishop, president of the then Guyana Football Association (GFA), and Ken Galt, then leader of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation met in Georgetown in 1970, the number one priority on the agenda was the resuscitation of the game in the region.

(Reuters) – Australian Nick Kyrgios produced another extraordinary performance to demolish compatriot Alex de Minaur 6-2 6-3 at the Canadian Masters yesterday, a day after stunning the world number one Daniil Medvedev.

(CMC) – Off-spinning all-rounder Sunil Narine shone with the ball but failed with the bat but his Oval Invincibles still did enough to take down Dwayne Bravo’s Northern Superchargers by three wickets in a tight finish at the Oval.

(CMC) – Left-arm seamer Colin Archibald claimed a three-wicket haul to stall Bangladesh A’s progress, on another truncated day of the second four-day “Test” yesterday.

(CMC) – Rookie off-spinner Kevin Sinclair is poised to make his One-Day International debut after being chosen in a 14-man squad to face New Zealand in the upcoming three-match series in Barbados.

(Reuters) – The National Basketball Association (NBA) will retire the number 6 jersey worn by Boston Celtics great and civil rights icon Bill Russell, who died late last month, the league said yesterday.