Cricket

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – A superb century from rookie Emmanuel Lett has put Trinidad and Tobago in an excellent position to secure victory over Leeward Islands after two days of their WICB Regional Championship, fifth round match at Bourda yesterday.

Solid batting by Trinidad and Tobago has placed it in a good position against the Leeward Islands in the fifth round of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) three-day under-19 Tournament yesterday at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground, Bourda.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Chris Gayle’s exile from West Indies is likely to continue for the two Twenty20 Internationals against England next month in London.

If the idiom “one way traffic” ever needed explaining to a group of students in an English class, the day’s play at Everest yesterday in the U-19 tournament would have been the perfect visual representation.

Jamaica’s opening batsman John Campbell rubbed more salt into the wounds of the Windward Islands by carving out an impressive century after being dropped on 14 by Terron Smith at the Demerara Cricket Club yesterday.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Former India players are united in  their belief that Virender Sehwag’s return from injury will  stabilise the team’s fragile batting order and lift morale in  the remaining two tests against a dominant England.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha  is keen to capitalise on a second bite of the cherry after  landing a surprise call-up to an India squad he was originally  omitted from for the ongoing tour of England.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia’s journey back up the  test world rankings is not going to happen overnight but the  upcoming series in Sri Lanka will be an indication of their  current status, captain Michael Clarke said yesterday.

Guyanese and West Indies batting star Ramnaresh Sarwan has vowed to win back his Test place after acknowledging that he nearly gave up the game eight months ago, according to a report today in The Royal Gazette Online of Bermuda.

Says Colin Benjamin As Mother Nature continued its relentless downpour in the city it brought the scheduled second day of the fourth round matches in the West Indies Cricket Board regional Under-19 three-day tournament to a halt yesterday.

LONDON, England, CMC – Chesney Hughes’ patient 44 on Sunday was not enough to stave off defeat for Derbyshire as they went down by seven wickets to Middlesex in their County Championship clash here yesterday.

NOTTINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – Tim Bresnan bowled  England to a crushing 319-run victory over India in the second  test yesterday with a test best of five for 48 as the world  number one side capitulated for 158 with a day to spare.

Guyana’s leg-spinner Davendra Bishoo  will have his sternest test yet when he comes up against Chris Gayle in the Jam Zone Masters’ Cup T20 cricket tournament later this month at the Providence National Stadium.

Overnight and early morning rain washed out all hopes of play on the first day of the fourth round of the West Indies Cricket Board Under-19 three day competition at the various venues in Georgetown yesterday.

(BBC) England centurion Ian Bell was reprieved and allowed to bat on in the second Test against India at Trent Bridge after initially being controversially run out yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Former Young Barbados captain Calvin Hope has stepped forward to challenge West Indies fast bowling legend Joel Garner for the post of president of the Barbados Cricket Association.

NOTTINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – Ian Bell scored an  immaculate if controversial 159 that helped put England in  command against India at the close of the third day of the  second test at Trent Bridge yesterday.

There finally was play on the third and final day of the West Indies Cricket Board, Under-19 top-of-the-table clash between Guyana and Jamaica at the Georgetown Cricket Club’s Bourda ground yesterday.

The Demerara Cricket Club clinched the Brainstreet- sponsored Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) Under-15 Cup final, with a convincing six-wicket victory over Malteenoes sports Club at the Gandhi Youth Organization (GYO), yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England required nine further  wickets to take a 1-0 lead in the four-match series against world number one side India at the close of the penultimate day of the first test at Lord’s yesterday.