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Star cyclist Jamual John brought his talents back to Guyana and rode off with the spoils of the Victor Macedo road race on Sunday.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Australia’s Aaron Finch finds Twenty20 cricket “exciting” and has no immediate plans to quit the format, the 35-year-old said ahead of their three-match series against India yesterday.

Riquna Williams scored 17 points off the bench, including eight in just over a minute late in the game, and the Las Vegas Aces outlasted the Connecticut Sun 78-71 on Sunday to win the WNBA championship in Uncasville, Conn.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Rugby Australia has written to the sport’s global governing body to reiterate concerns about refereeing after the Rugby Championship test against New Zealand in Melbourne was tarnished by a contentious time-wasting decision.

(Reuters) – Saudi Arabia has never been part of the Presidents Cup, which every two years pits the best golfers from the United States against the best from the rest of world — except Europe.

The NBA and the players association are expected to agree to reduce the minimum draft age from 19 to 18 by 2024, The Athletic reported yesterday.

KARACHI, Pakistan, (Reuters) – England will kick off their first tour of Pakistan in 17 years today with the first of a seven-match Twenty20 series which assumes even more importance for both sides ahead of the World Cup in Australia next month.

TAROUBA, Trinidad, CMC – Andre Russell blasted 16 runs from the last three deliveries of the game but his efforts were in vain as Trinbago Knight Riders suffered an agonising one-run defeat to St Lucia Kings in the Caribbean Premier League here Sunday night.

Members of the Albouystown-based Forgotten Youth Foundation (FYF) Gym took their talents to Rose Hall Town Saturday night and returned to their base with the marquee titles of the GBA’s Youth and Junior Championships.

Alado captured an emphatic gate-to-pole victory at the Rising Sun Turf Club in the feature one-mile event of the President’s Cup yesterday, justifying the favourite tag given at the start of the race.

Golden Grove, and Cummings Lodge recorded opening day wins in the third Guyoil/Tradewind Tankers Secondary Schools Football League yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

It was match-day highlighted by drawn encounters as Botofago and Capital FC as well as Milerock and Winners Connection battled to respective stalemates in the Upper Demerara Football Association Senior Men’s League yesterday.

TAROUBA, Trinidad, CMC – Barbados Royals defeated Guyana Amazon Warriors in a rain-hit, low-scoring affair on a difficult wicket at Brian Lara Stadium, to become the first side to book their playoff spot in this year’s Caribbean Premier League.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Selectors have recalled Natasha McLean for the first time in two years, to face New Zealand Women in the first two One-Day Internationals of the three-match series which gets underway here today.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – India fast bowler Mohammed Shami has tested positive for COVID-19 and has been ruled out of the three Twenty20 internationals at home against Australia, the country’s cricket board (BCCI) said yesterday.

TAROUBA, Trinidad, CMC – Captain Kieron Pollard’s run of poor form continued but his Trinbago Knight Riders grabbed a vital win with a four-wicket victory over Jamaica Tallawahs on Saturday night, to move into third spot in the Caribbean Premier League.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Singapore-born Tim David is an X-factor in Australia’s Twenty20 World Cup squad and pace spearhead Pat Cummins said he was looking forward to the all-rounder’s debut in Australian colours during the three-match series in India.

(CPL) Barbados Royals confirmed their spot in the playoffs of the Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) campaign with a commanding DLS victory against the Guyana Amazon Warriors today.

After two decades, amateur boxing made its ring return to Rose Hall Town last evening.

Western Tigers defeated Pele 3-1 when the Georgetown Football Association leg of the NAMILCO U17 League continued yesterday at the Guyana Football Federation Training Centre, Providence.