After supporting the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) with a one million dollar package in financing and accessories last Friday to boost the national football team ahead of its two important upcoming engagements, yesterday the Bakewell Group of companies hosted the Golden Jaguars to lunch at its Roti Hut branch on Albert Street.
Guyana’s national football team the “Golden Jaguars” continued its preparation for the 2014 World-Cup qualifying away legs against Barbados and Bermuda on Friday and next Tuesday with an intense practice session at the Enmore Community Center Ground, yesterday.
Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) executives Friday evening launched the campaign of the national cricket team ahead of the Regional Super50 Championship which will be held in Guyana from October 18-29 in a small ceremony at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) Pavilion, Bourda.
They were rival players in the just-concluded traditional Berbice versus Demerara showdown in the El Dorado Senior Inter-County 50-overs competition.
Berbice continued its dominance at the senior Inter-County level by retaining the El Dorado limited-overs cricket title for the third consecutive year with a six-wicket victory against arch rivals Demerara at the Albion Community Center Ground, Berbice, yesterday.
Both defending champions Berbice and archrivals Demerara began their preparation for Sunday’s Inter-County 50-overs final in Berbice with net sessions at the Albion Community Centre Ground and Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) Ground, respectively, yesterday.
Demerara and the President’s XI hardly broke a sweat, as they both recorded clinical victories over opponents Berbice and Essequibo, in the latest round of the 2011 El Dorado Senior Inter-County limited overs competition, at the Everest Cricket Club and Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) grounds respectively, yesterday.
Demerara completed a polished 58-run victory over Essequibo in their replayed opening fixture of the 2011 El Dorado Senior Inter-County limited overs competition, at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC), Ground, Bourda, yesterday.
The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/EL Dorado Inter-County limited overs cricket competition was launched yesterday at a press conference at the GCB head office, Regent Street.
Two second half strikes from Vurlon Mills helped Guyana’s Golden Jaguars secure a 2-1 victory over Bermuda in their second group B match of the 2014 World Cup qualifiers, at the Providence National Stadium last evening.
Guyana will be looking to make it two wins out of two when they tackle Bermuda in their second group B match of the 2014 World Cup qualifiers at the National Stadium at Providence this evening.
One of the first signs that the potential formation of the Interim Management Committee (IMC) by the government to temporary govern cricket in Guyana could further affect cricketers throughout the country, occurred on Friday, when a faction of Berbice players called up for a Twenty20 Trial match ahead of upcoming practice games versus Trinidad who will be representing the region in the Champions League tournament in India later this month, were told by Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) officials not to turn up.
In a truly one-sided contest, Malteenoes hammered second division side Third-class by 241 runs, in the final first round match of the Georgetown Cricket Association’s (GCA) Queensway Cup limited-overs cricket competition at the Everest ground yesterday.
With the West Indies selectors continuing its musical chairs style selection policy with the announcement of the squad to play two Twenty20s in England next month, the only potentially fruitful decision was to award local boy Derwin Christian his first international call-up.
As the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) yesterday announced its squad for the hastily arranged Twenty20s versus England next month, the rationale behind the selection of some players, just as it was during the 2011 home season versus Pakistan and India, continues to baffle.
Guyana clinched Group C with an impressive 2-0 victory over Anguilla in the final match of the first round of the CONCACAF Under-17 World Cup Qualifiers at the Uitvlugt Community Centre ground, yesterday.
In Greek mythology the Titans, were a race of powerful Gods and in the famous Tintanomachy “War of the Gods,” The elder Gods were overthrown by a group of younger Gods known as Olympians.
The boys from the Land of Flying Fish made it five wins out of five en route to dethroning 2010 winners Trinidad and Tobago as the regional limited overs champions with a commanding nine-wicket win at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) Ground, yesterday.
In sport it is always felt that a group stars in a XI does not make a team win but 11 players working together will.
Guyana’s tournament momentum and title hopes came to an abrupt halt yesterday when they suffered their second defeat in a week losing by eight wickets to Barbados at the Blairmont Community Centre Ground, Berbice, in the penultimate round of the limited overs version of the West Indies Cricket Board’s Under 19 tournament.
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