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(Reuters) – Reigning Olympic champion Alexander Zverev is hopeful the knee injury he suffered at Wimbledon will not impact his chances of gold in Paris but says it is not yet healed.

(ESPN) The ball that got Shoaib Bashir going was not even a wicket-taking delivery.

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – Barbados won the West Indies Under-19 Championship here Sunday after the two-day final against Jamaica ended in a tame stalemate at the Arnos Vale Stadium.

DALLAS, Texas,  CMC – Former West Indies white-ball captains, Kieron Pollard and Nicholas Pooran, produced contrasting knocks as MI New York notched their first win in six outings with a four-wicket verdict over LA Knight Riders in the Major League Cricket tournament here Sunday.

NOTTINGHAM, England, CMC – Captain Kraigg Brathwaite on Sunday tried to hastily turn the page on a yet another dismal West Indies batting performance, urging his side to stay “mentally tough”, as he switched his attention to next week’s final Test at Edgbaston.

The duo’s joint statement called Lara’s ‘claim’ of Richards making Hooper cry categorically false (ESPN) Viv Richards and Carl Hooper have strongly hit back at former West Indies team-mate Brian Lara for “gross misrepresentations” in his book – Lara: The England Chronicles.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Australia would not pick a convicted rapist for the Olympics, team chief Anna Meares said on Monday after the Netherlands selected a beach volleyball player convicted of that offence.

(Reuters) – India’s new head coach Gautam Gambhir believes veteran batsmen Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma can both continue playing until the 2027 World Cup if they remain fit but said yesterday that the decision was entirely up to them.

(Reuters) – USA Cricket and Cricket Chile have been formally put on notice for their non-compliance with the International Cricket Council’s membership criteria, the sport’s governing body said yesterday.

The U.S. Embassy in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport – Guyana, National Sports Commission, and Athletics Association of Guyana has launched the 2024 U.S.

PARIS, (Reuters) – The Paris Olympics, which open on Friday, will feature a new sport in breaking, plus three young sports returning from the Tokyo Games — climbing, skateboarding and surfing.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Four-time NBA champion LeBron James will be Team USA’s male flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics on July 26, the American team said yesterday.

(CMC) – A stunning collapse in a nightmare final hour saw the West Indies surrender the Richards-Botham Trophy with a demoralising 241-run defeat in the second Test at Trent Bridge yesterday.

Undefeated West Demerara outfit Slingerz maintained their pursuit of leader the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) with a thumping 11-0 victory over Anns Grove in the KFC Elite League on Saturday evening at the National Training Centre in Providence, East Bank Demerara.

Mocha Village Cup Football Stabroek Ballers was crowned the Mocha Village Cup ‘Soft Shoe’ Football Champion, defeating home-side Red Force by a 2-1 score on Saturday evening at the community centre ground.

Guyana Panthers won the inaugural edition of the Guyana Football Federation’s (GFF) Boy’s U-16 Youth Academy Cup, defeating the Guyana Jaguars on penalty kicks yesterday in the final at the National Training Centre in Providence, East Bank Demerara.

After rain put paid to the Guyana Cricket Board’s (GCB) U-17 50-Over Inter-County over the last week, they have opted for trial matches between selected players.

CWI Rising Stars Men’s U-19 2-Day Guyana produced a vastly improved performance in their Cricket West Indies (CWI) Men’s U-19 2-day fixture against Trinidad and Tobago over the weekend, but the game ended in a draw nonetheless.

NOTTINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – Spinner Shoaib Bashir took five wickets as England bowled out West Indies for 143 to secure a 241-run victory on the fourth day of the second test at Trent Bridge today and take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series.

(CMC) – Wicketkeeper Joshua Da Silva underlined a sterling West Indies fightback with a fifth Test fifty to earn his side a slim first innings lead, but England got half-centuries from Ben Duckett, Harry Brook, and Ollie Pope to regain control of the second Test at Trent Bridge yesterday.