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Riddim Squad squeaked past Camptown by a 2-1 scoreline when the Georgetown Football Association Senior Men’s League continued at the National Training Centre, Providence, East Bank Demerara.

Circuitville and Soesdyke recorded contrasting victories when the East Bank Demerara Senior Men’s League continued on Sunday at the National Training Centre, Providence.

Umasankar Madray, Ryan McKinnon, and Saeed Karim were elected to office when Archery Guyana conducted its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on June 21st at the Georgetown Club on Camp Street.

National Junior Badminton Championships The Gumdac-sponsored National Junior Badminton Championships got underway last evening at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue, with Xavio Alexander and Harshini Muralidaran among the winners following sublime performances.

Stabroek Ballers defeated Broad Street 2-1 when the sixth edition of the Mocha Village Cup ‘Soft Shoe’ Football Championship continued at the community centre tarmac.

Unstoppable bested Taliban via penalty kicks to be crowned the inaugural winner of the Father’s Day Street-ball Championship on Friday evening at the Back Circle Community Tarmac.

(Reuters) – Frank Duckworth, the pioneering statistician who co-created the Duckworth Lewis method adopted in cricket to revise targets in limited overs games truncated due to rain, died last week at the age of 84, the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) said yesterday.

(Reuters) – Afghanistan reached the semi-finals of the Twenty20 World Cup with a dramatic eight-run victory over Bangladesh under the Duckworth Lewis System in St Vincent yesterday, joining India as the qualifiers from Group 1 and sending Australia home.

-Grimmond wins MVP Award The second edition of the Tertiary Basketball League (TBL II) concluded on Sunday night at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue, and saw the Linden Technical Institute (LTI) stay unbeaten with a testing 79-70 win over the University of Guyana (UG) Trojans.

The horse racing fraternity will soon have legislation to guide them after decades of running without clear guidelines and rules.

Motivator Ballers were crowned champions of the People’s Progressive Party-Sophia, Turkeyen, Liliendaal and Cummings Lodge Cluster 7-a-side football competition which concluded on Sunday at C- Field Multi-Purpose Centre, Sophia. 

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – Ralf Rangnick admitted there was doubt among the players when he was hired as Austria’s manager in 2022, but the 65-year-old German has led his team to the cusp of the Euro 2024 knockout rounds.

(Reuters) – England spinner Shoaib Bashir had a spell to forget when he conceded 38 runs in an over in a County Championship match between Surrey and Worcestershire yesterday in which Dan Lawrence smashed five consecutive sixes.

(Reuters) – Afghanistan captain Rashid Khan can finally look forward to sleeping better after Saturday’s T20 World Cup win avenged last year’s loss to Australia in the 50-overs version.

HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka,  CMC – Talismanic captain Hayley Matthews returned from injury but West Indies Women’s winning touch still deserted them, as they lost the opening Twenty20 International by four wickets here yesteday.

LEIPZIG, Germany,  (Reuters) – Mattia Zaccagni curled home a 98th minute equaliser as defending champions Italy booked a last-16 spot at Euro 2024 yesterday with a 1-1 draw against Croatia, whose tournament hopes were left hanging by a thread, and will next face Switzerland.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Captain Rovman Powell said West Indies’ batting effort in Sunday’s Super Eight defeat to South Africa was one to quickly forget, but said the surface at the Vivian Richards Cricket Ground was a “difficult wicket” which left both teams struggling to adjust.

(Reuters) – India marched into the T20 World Cup semi-finals yesterday as skipper Rohit Sharma’s blistering 92 set up a 24-run victory over Australia.

(Reuters) – Afghanistan reached the semi-finals of the Twenty20 World Cup with a dramatic eight-run victory over Bangladesh under the Duckworth Lewis System in St Vincent yesterday, joining India as the qualifiers from Group 1 and sending Australia home.

(Reuters) – Novak Djokovic is encouraged by his progress after undergoing minor knee surgery less than three weeks ago but the seven-times Wimbledon champion said he will only play in the grasscourt Grand Slam next month if he is able to fight for the title.