Cricket

Wolf Warriors and Trophy Stall Anglels Saturday stormed into the quarter finals of the lucrative Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company Limited 10/10 softball tournament at the Uitvlugt Community Centre ground.

CAVE HILL, Barbados, CMC – Ryan Austin and Kavesh Kantasingh continued to weave their web around regional batsmen, when they bowled Combined Campuses & Colleges to a 157-run victory over Windward Islands yesterday.

ST. AUGUSTINE, Trinidad, CMC – Jason Dawes and Andre Russell enhanced Jamaica’s chances of reaching the Final of the WICB Regional first-class championship, after their batsmen, led by Wavell Hinds, piled-up the runs against Trinidad & Tobago yesterday.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Mahendra Singh Dhoni celebrated  India’s World Cup triumph by shaving off his famous dark locks  while his team mates spent yesterday morning plastering a “thousand  kisses” on the silver and gilt trophy that was finally in their  possession.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Sachin Tendulkar stands at the  heart of a real life drama today which would be rejected  as impossibly contrived if suggested to any director in the  flourishing film industry of his native Mumbai.

Despite the fact that Guyana’s senior cricket team finished in the cellar of this year’s West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) First Class competition, national coach Mark Harper feels that Guyana’s cricket is not a lost cause.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Brief profiles of the India and Sri Lanka captains in today’s World Cup final at the Wankhede Stadium.

ST AUGUSTINE, Trinidad, CMC – Test left-hander Brendan Nash was closing in on a century but the in-form Marlon Samuels missed out on one, as Jamaica dominated Trinidad and Tobago on the opening day of their Regional First Class Championship semi-final yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Opener Romel Currency fell five short of a deserved century but his innings kept Combined Campuses and Colleges afloat on the opening day of their Regional First Class Championship semi-final against Windward Islands yesterday.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Pakistan World Cup captain  Shahid Afridi has withdrawn from next month’s tour to West  Indies, a source at the national cricket board told Reuters on  Thursday.

Cricket competitions under the aegis of the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) will take place this week end at several venues with arch rivals Demerara Cricket Club and the Georgetown Cricket Club meeting in a key first division fixture fixture.

ST AUGUSTINE, Trinidad, CMC – An absorbing contest can be expected, when Trinidad & Tobago face three-time defending champions Jamaica in their semi-final of the WICB Regional first-class championship, starting today at the University of the West Indies Sports & Physical Education Centre.

Trophy Stall XI have kept their title defence hopes alive, entering the super sixteen stage of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) Softball Cricket Competition set for the Uitvlugt Community Centre Ground and the Everest Cricket Ground on April 2 and 3.

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Balancing India’s commercial power with the interests of other cricket-playing nations is one of the main challenges facing the game over the next few years, according to former ICC chief executive Malcolm Speed.

CAVE HILL, Barbados, CMC – Combined Campuses & Colleges will be looking to create more history, when they face Windward Islands in the semi-finals of the WICB Regional first-class championship, starting today at the Three Ws Oval.

MOHALI, India, (Reuters) – India kept alive a  billion dreams after sinking Pakistan in their World Cup  semi-final yesterday to set up an all-Asian final against Sri  Lanka.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – As expected, Trinidad and Tobago selectors have included the World Cup trio of Darren Bravo, Kieron Pollard and Ravi Rampaul in their 13-man squad for the Regional First Class Championship semi-final against Jamaica starting tomorrow.

MOHALI, India, (Reuters) – Vanquished captain  Shahid Afridi expects a mature reaction from fans in Pakistan  when their team return after going down to arch-rivals India in  the World Cup semi-final yesterday.

(BBC) New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori has announced his retirement from Twenty20 internationals and is considering his future in one-day internationals.

KARACHI,  (Reuters) – The guns fell silent and the  streets were deserted after Pakistan were defeated by India in  their World Cup semi-final in Mohali yesterday.