Cricket

The East Bank Cricket Board (EBCB) is inviting all Under-17 cricketers in the area to gather at the Diamond Cricket Ground today at 4:45pm for a meeting.

(Cricinfo) It’s been a tough year for Bangladesh. After convincing home one-day series wins against New Zealand and Zimbabwe last year, which helped them go above West Indies in the ICC one-day international rankings, many expected 2011 to be the year Bangladesh would permanently shed the “minnow” tag.

The final day of the two matches on display, Carib Beer/Friends of Cricket Heroes Cup, two-day, first-division club cricket competition, ended in draws at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) Ground and Police Sports Club, Eve Leary, on Sunday.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – Resurgent stroke-maker Marlon Samuels is anxiously looking forward to the limited overs and Test series against Bangladesh after his superb, unbeaten century in a Twenty20 tour match on Sunday.

(Reuters) Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ijaz Butt has left for Dubai to attend the ICC’s executive board meeting even as a decision on his extension is expected to be taken in the next 48 hours.

By Iva Wharton Last Saturday softball players from Suriname lost thousands of dollars in cash and other valuables in a larceny incident while they were on the field at the Everest Cricket Club, Carifesta Avenue, in a match against their Guyanese counterparts.

Guyana’s golfers performed creditably at the recently held RBC/RBTT Suriname Open tournament played at the Paramaribo Golf Club.

(Reuters) The possibility of converting the 2013 Champions Trophy to a Test Championship and its Presidential nomination and election process is on top of agenda at International Cricket Council ICC Executive Board’s fourth and final meeting of the year which began here yesterday.

(Reuters) A Pakistani court has released on bail Muhammad Ebrahim, a suspect charged with involvement in the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore in March 2009.

CHENNAI, India, IANS-CMC – Kieron Pollard will square off with West Indies counterpart Chris Gayle in today’s Champions League Twenty20 final after his Mumbai Indians beat English county Somerset by 10 runs in the second semi-final of the lucrative tournament here yesterday.

Co-defending Regional limited overs champions the Leeward Islands (who tied with Barbados at Sabina Park in last year’s final) and the Windward Islands are expected to arrive in Guyana this weekend in order to have an early acclimatisation camp ahead of the Regional Super50 one-day tournament which is scheduled to bowl off in Guyana on  October 18.

The  Guyana Floodlights Softball Cricket Association  organized Bakewell Countrywide Male open 15/15,Male over 40 yrs 25/25,and female 10/10 softball tournament continues today at various venues.

The Muslim Youth Organization of Guyana in association with Raf’s Variety Store, First Annual Hajjin Zeleena Rafeek Memorial Countrywide Inter-Jamaat 10/10 Knockout Softball Cricket Tournament continued last Sunday  at Chesney Ground and CPCE Ground.

Unless the quote was lost in translation in the Reuters transmission from Dhaka, neither the question at the media briefing on the West Indies’ team arrival in Bangladesh or Ottis Gibson’s answer was surprising.

The softball cricket fraternity has organized a benefit game for Royston Ramsarran former organizing secretary of the Guyana Softball Cricket Association (GSCA).

Malteenoes were eight runs ahead at the end of the opening day of the Carib Beer/Friends of Cricket Heroes Cup, two-day, first-division match against the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) Ground, yesterday.

The Guyana Floodlight Softball Cricket Association (GFSCA) organized Bakewell Male/Female nationwide softball tournament continued last Sunday at various venues.

CHENNAI, India, CMC-IANS – A determined Trinidad & Tobago held their nerve this time, after Sunil Narine followed up a match-changing innings from Kevon Cooper with miserly off-spin bowling to snatch a dramatic, six-wicket victory over reigning champions Chennai Super Kings in the Champions League Twenty20 yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Antigua & Barbuda Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer said a rescue mission was needed to save the game in the Caribbean and expected Caribbean governments to play a leading role in moving the process forward.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Openers Omar Phillips and Rommel Currency slammed hundreds against Pickwick to fortify UWI’s bid for a third straight title in the Barbados Cricket Association’s Division 1 Championship on Saturday.