Cricket

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia have omitted Cameron  White from their one-day squad for next month’s tour of Sri  Lanka but retained the 27-year-old batsman as captain of their  Twenty20 side.

East Coast recorded a comfortable 36-run victory over their West Bank Demerara counterparts in the opening game of the 2011 Female Inter-Association Cricket 50-overs Tournament at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) Ground yesterday.

Treasurer of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Sheikh Ahmad believes that a new executive is needed to bring about a solution to the problems that have plagued the organisation.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s sports minister has  ordered a probe into former captain Kumar Sangakkara’s comments  about the island nation’s cricket administrators and political  meddling during his speech to Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)  members at Lord’s on Monday.

KARACHI, (Reuters) –  Pakistan  cricket’s endless parade of controversies and scandal has made  playing for the national team akin to ‘mental torture’,  according to captain   Misbah-ul-Haq.

Veteran batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul is well poised to tory when he takes the field against India today for the third and final test match for the Digicel home series.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Prolific 18-year-old Kraigg Brathwaite will lead a 14-man West Indies Under-19 squad on their tour of the United States starting Friday.

BRIDGETOWN, (Reuters) – The second Test between West Indies and India ended in a draw yesterday after the fickle weather that had interrupted the match for days finally halted play.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies coach Ottis Gibson believes estranged opener Chris Gayle has to decide his own future with the regional side, and says he will press ahead with his goal of building a successful, united side.

While Chris Gayle, not without reason, tries to understand why he still remains basically debarred from selection, Ramnaresh Sarwan and Marlon Samuels, two other batsmen of similar vintage who have confronted different troubles of their own, have been battling to re-establish themselves in the Test team.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Test spinner Danish Kaneria filed a High Court petition yesterday against the Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) refusal to clear him to play international cricket.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Indian opener Virender Sehwag needs more time to recover from surgery on his shoulder and will miss the first test against England at Lord’s later this month, the Indian cricket board (BCCI) said yesterday.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Guyana’s President Bharrat Jagdeo said yesterday CARICOM governments should heed the call from embattled West Indies opener Chris Gayle, and intervene in the impasse between him and the West Indies Cricket Board.

Heavy rain yesterday prevented any play on the opening day of the 2011 Regional Under-15 cricket series between Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana and Jamaica and the Windwards.

The ICC’s five-day annual conference got off to a tepid start yesterday in Hong Kong, with none of the crucial issues – the Decision Review System, constitutional amendments regarding governance, or Associate involvement in the 2015 World cup – being discussed on the opening day.

Kingston, Jamaica – The Boards of Directors of the West Indies Cricket Board and the Jamaica Cricket Association met in Kingston Jamaica  yesterday to discuss a number of issues of mutual interest.

Way back in March 1992, a local newspaper had called for changes to be made to the organisation of sports in Guyana.

Bridgetown, Barbados – Dr. Rudi Webster has accepted an invitation to work with the West Indies players as they prepare for the Second Digicel Test match against India at Kensington Oval.

St John’s, Antigua – The WICB Digicel Grassroots Grant application period has been opened once again.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – India needed a mere half-hour after lunch on the fourth day to quell West Indies’ resistance and send the hosts plunging to a 63-run defeat with over a day to spare in the first Test here yesterday.