Cricket

Guyana’s Under-19 cricket team ended its chequered campaign of the WICB limited overs tournament with a draw against the Windward Islands at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground, Bourda.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Jamaica made light work of the Leewards Islands to end their WICB Regional Under-19 One-Day campaign on a high 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.

As one who has written as many words to fill the public library on behalf of the West Indies Players Association (WIPA), Dinanath Ramnarine’s comment last week suggested that the penny had finally dropped.

Guyanese will be entertained by Chris Gayle this weekend in the inaugural Hits and Jams Twenty20 competition at the National Stadium.

Dyna’s Bravados and Fire Links cricket teams have advanced to the Super 16 stage of the Kares Engineering/Bushy Park Sawmills 10/10 Tapeball Cricket Competition when play in the East Bank Zone ended yesterday at the Diamond Community Centre ground.

Bakery giants Bakewell of 5-9 Drive, Miller St., Triumph, East Coast Demerara, has joined forces with the Guyana Floodlight Softball Cricket Association (GFSCA) to sponsor the next nationwide male/female softball tournament, set to kick off on August 28.

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.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana,  CMC – Emmanuel Lett continued his outstanding showing at the WICB Regional Under-19 Championship with another brilliant performance yesterday to re-ignite Trinidad and Tobago hopes of winning the One-Day title.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana,  CMC – Jamaica finally got a win in the WICB Regional Under-19 One-Day Championship, as middle-order batsman Brian Gayle hit an unbeaten century to guide them to a two-wicket victory with a ball to spare in a cliff-hanger yesterday.

BIRMINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – England surged to  the top of the world rankings after crushing India by an innings  and 242 runs in the third test yesterday to secure their sixth  consecutive series win.

In his first year in charge of the national side, new Guyana women’s cricket coach Latchman Yadram has pledged to go all out to win this year’s West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Women’s limited overs tournament which commences today in Barbados.

Georgetown, Guyana – Jamaica coach Robert Samuels has praised his players for their team-work, unity and belief in each other following the capture of the three-day title in the West Indies Cricket Board’s Under-19 Tournament.

NOTTINGHAM, England, CMC – A typically belligerent, unbeaten 47 from Kieron Pollard propelled Somerset to a six-wicket victory over Nottinghamshire in the quarter-finals of the English Twenty20 Championship yesterday.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Regional players body, WIPA, have appointed directors Dave Kissoon and Michael Hall to lead its negotiations with the West Indies Cricket Board to revise the existing Collective Bargaining Agreement.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – India seamer Zaheer Khan needs  surgery for ankle and hamstring problems and has been ruled out  for the remainder of the England series, the Indian cricket  board (BCCI) said yesterday.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Rahul Dravid has said his return  to India’s one-day squad is a temporary one and he is retiring  from the shorter forms of the game after the upcoming series  against England, but his surprise recall is being viewed by some  as a step in the wrong direction.

The moment of devastation had to be faced.  It was the moment of losing.

Barbados 297/8 dec. (Kraigg Braithwaite 146 not out, Gudakesh Motie-Kanhai 4/76, Loyydel Lewis 2-47) lead Guyana 87 (Kwame Crosse 42, Justin Greaves 4-17) and 143 for 9 (Amir Khan 36, Ronsford Beaton 21, Shai Parris 2-13, Kyle Mayers 2-16, Greaves 2-15, Jones 2-31) by 67 runs with one wicket remaining.

The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) honoured West Indian players Devendra Bishoo and Shemaine Campbelle through its Tribute to Heroes programme last Wednesday which was sponsored by the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club (RHTY&SC) in Berbice.