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MUMBAI, India (CMC): West Indies women will be looking to make history, when their five-match one-day international (ODI) series against India women opens today at the Bandra Kurla Complex. West Indies women have never beaten India in nine attempts...

NORTH SOUND, Antigua (CMC):An arena that bears the name of a batsman that terrorised bowlers all around the world during his playing days appropriately provides the backdrop, as the backdrop, as the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship opens today....

SYDNEY (CMC): Chris Gayle served notice on Indian Premier League bidders, when he set a new Twenty20 Big Bash record in a dashing half-century that helped to set-up a 19-run victory for Western...

DAVID 'Scorcher' McKenzie, the oldest jockey at Caymanas Park, was yesterday handed an early birthday present by trainer Margaret Parchment.

Don Wehby, group chief operating officer of GraceKennedy Limited, has called on the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) to immediately deal with the Patterson Report, among other things, in an effort to rescue West Indies cricket from its present state of embarrassing performances.

Chris Gayle will be hoping that he attracts Indian Premier League bidders today after he remained unsold at the players' auction for the fourth edition of the competition yesterday.

The special committee that was formed to lead discussions around the formulation of a branding and marketing policy for the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) has completed its task and The Gleaner understands that the document is now in the possession of president Captain Horace Burrell.

Jamaica's football ignored him. Twice. Flatly rejected his pleas for inclusion. Yet, Robin Fraser will come calling again, this time as coach of Major League Soccer (MLS) club Chivas USA in search of talent he swears runs deep in the land of his birth.

THE champion pair of jockey Omar Walker and trainer Wayne DaCosta might have started 2011 on a rather quiet note with one winner, JET SETTER, in last Saturday's ninth event.

Fidel Edwards will continue on the comeback trail from injury, when he plays in a national four-day trial match, starting today at the rural St Catherine Club. The West Indies fast bowler has been named in a 13-member squad that will be led by recent West Indies High Performance Centre captain Shamarh Brooks against a side led by West Indies-A all-rounder Jason Holder.

Fresh from their controversial Digicel Caribbean Cup triumph in Martinique, Jamaica's Reggae Boyz look set to tackle Caribbean rivals Grenada in a friendly international later this month.

There were the usual first-night problems and jitters, but in the end, The Wray and Nephew Contender Series, co-sponsored by Claro and TVJ, got off to a good start at the Chinese Benevolent Association auditorium on Wednesday night.