Cricket

(BBC) The Sri Lanka Cricket Board has expressed concern over match-fixing allegations and called on two former captains to substantiate their claims.

The Universal DVD Berbice Titans added another accolade to its growing list with a comfortable 85-run win over the Carib Beer East Coast Jaguars in the Arrival Day T20 Championships yesterday at the Albion Community Centre ground.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Inclement weather could spoil the return of Ramnaresh Sarwan, which is likely to overshadow the usual rhetoric of playing for pride, when West Indies face Pakistan in the fourth One-day International today.

The Georgetown Cricket Club (GGC) was declared winners of the Noble House Seafoods second division tournament after their match against the Guyana Defence Force ended in a draw yesterday at the Demerara Cricket Club ground.

JAIPUR, India, (Reuters) – New Zealand’s Ross Taylor  hit an unbeaten 47 off 35 balls to guide Rajasthan Royals to a  thrilling six wicket victory over Pune Warriors in the Indian  Premier League (IPL) yesterday.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Runako Morton continued to put his legal troubles behind him, scoring his second straight hundred for Queen’s Park Cricket Club in the Trinidad & Tobago Cricket Board Premier Division championship on Saturday.

West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Chief Executive Officer (CEO)  Dr Ernest Hilaire has denied making any reference to dependable West Indies middle order batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul.

Left out of the West Indies team so far for the Pakistan tour of the West Indies, the experienced West Indies pair of Ramnaresh Sarwan and Shivnarine Chanderpaul has been named in the Guyana team to oppose the touring Pakistan cricketers  in  their two day practice match next weekend.

Former West Indies under-19 skipper Leon Johnson has been named captain of the Georgetwon Cricket Association’s  team to contest tomorrow’s Arrival Cup Twenty20 tournament.

JAIPUR, India, (Reuters) – South African Johan  Botha took three wickets for six runs in two overs and made 45  with the bat to earn Rajasthan Royals a seven-wicket win over  Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League (IPL) yesterday.

The Millie Lewis Memorial Female Cricket Tournament organised by the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) will bowl off today with the county’s only two female teams Rose Hall Town Metro and Tucber Park clashing in the opening match at the Area “H” Ground.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Ravi Rampaul said West Indies can avoid a One-day International series sweep against Pakistan in their current series.

The Guyana Cricket Tapeball League (GCTL) will host a Tape- ball Knockout Cricket Tournament on May 7 and 8 at the National Cultural Centre Tarmac.

Linden will look to defend their championship title at the 11th edition of the LinWest Games to be staged on May 7 by the New Guyana Sports Association of New York Inc.

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Embattled West Indies off-spinner Shane Shillingford has been named as Dominica’s Sports Personality-of-the-Year for a second straight year.

With just two days before the arrival of the Pakistanis for the Digicel home series with the West Indies, fresh turmoil among members of the GCB executive has surfaced,  prompting Registrar of the Friendly Societies Kareem Abdul-Jabar to convene a meeting “to clarify the allegations”.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Penetrative bowling from Ravi Rampaul and Devendra Bishoo was upstaged by a typically resolute, unbeaten 62 from Misbah-ul-Haq that guided Pakistan to a series-clinching, three-wicket victory over West Indies in the third One-day International yesterday.

West Indies and Guyana middle order batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul has taken umbrage at WICB CEO Ernest Hilaire’s comments about players lacking discipline and application, made during a Line and Length interview as a defence for the new-look Regional team.

Keirre Henry was outstanding in the quarterfinal of the inaugural Ricks & Sari Agro Industries Under-13, Two Innings Cricket Competition organized by the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) at the Blairmont Sports Ground, Berbice.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Another resolute innings from Kraigg Brathwaite was overshadowed by an undefeated hundred from Shaiman Anwar that led United Arab Emirates A-Team to a six-wicket victory over West Indies Under-19s yesterday.