Cricket

The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) last Sunday successfully launched its Junior Elite Training programme consisting of 35 under-15 players at the Albion Community Centre Ground, Berbice.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – West Indies’ 10-wicket humiliation of Bangladesh during the group stage of the World Cup will be at the centre of a government enquiry delving into the reasons behind the team’s poor performance.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago will be boosted by the World Cup trio of Darren Bravo, Keiron Pollard and Ravi Rampaul for their semi-final of the Regional First Class Championship against Jamaica, starting this weekend.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Batsman Michael Clarke was  appointed Australia’s 43rd test cricket captain yesterday, a  day after Ricky Ponting’s resigned the post.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka repulsed a spirited  New Zealand challenge in Colombo yesterday to win their World  Cup semi-final and present Muttiah Muralitharan with the  opportunity to finish his career with a flourish.

MOHALI, India, (Reuters) – The prime ministers of  India and Pakistan will mix with Bollywood stars and thousands  of fans as the two rivals square off in a World Cup cricket  semi-final today in the wake of high profile peace talks  between the two nations.

St John’s, Antigua – Off-spinner Shane Shillingford is making encouraging progress as he makes a bid to return to competitive cricket.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Angry protestors clashed with police yesterday outside the stadium in Mohali where India will meet Pakistan in a World Cup semi-final which has captured the imagination of the sub-continent.

Guyanese players continued to make the headlines in Trinidad and Tobago with their exploits in the top league.

South Ruimveldt Park Primary School took top honours when Scotiabank hosted the Kiddy Cricket Mascot Competition recently.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka will stick to the tried and tested formula they employed to defeat New Zealand in their group match when they clash in Colombo today for a place in the World Cup final.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia,  CMC – A five-wicket haul by left arm orthodox spinner Garey Mathurin and an unbroken, third wicket partnership of 48 between St Lucians Keddy Lesporis and Johnson Charles steered Windward Islands to a comfortable eight-wicket win over Leeward Islands here yesterday.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – A drained Tillakaratne Dilshan was helped out of the park but not before his all-round show had taken Sri Lanka closer to their second World Cup title while prolonging England’s agonising wait for their first yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies A batsman Jonathan Carter agonisingly missed out on a maiden first class century yesterday as the clash between Barbados and Combined Campuses and Colleges remained tantalisingly poised heading into today’s third day.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Lendl Simmons gave West Indies selectors plenty food for thought ahead of the Pakistan series next month when he pummelled a remarkable, unbeaten double century against Guyana yesterday.

Incumbent Dr. Julien Hunte will be returned un-opposed as president of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), when the directors meet at the annual general meeting in Antigua tomorrow.

An irate president of the T&T Cricket Board (TTCB), Azim Bassarath is calling for the heads of the senior West Indies players in light of the region’s poor showing at the cricket World Cup.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – New Zealand yesterday powered into the semi-finals for the second successive World Cup, shocking favourites South Africa by 49 runs and extending the Proteas’ dismal run in the knock out stage of the showpiece.

Lendl Simmons continued his fondness for Guyana’s bowling attack by slamming a century yesterday, his ninth first class ton, to put Trinidad and Tobago in control against Guyana in their seventh round West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Regional Four-Day Competition at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence.

The games are over for West Indies cricket team at the World Cup and so too should be the ones the West Indies Cricket Board has been playing with respect to development of the regional team and the regional standard on the whole.