Leg-spinner Davendra Bishoo, currently with the West Indies team at the World Cup in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, was Saturday night named Cricketer of the Year at the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) fourth annual awards ceremony.
By Tony Cozier
At the ICC World Cup In DELHI
The West Indies’ choice of their third substitute player for the current World Cup is as bewildering as that of Cameron Cuffy for Carl Hooper at the 1996 version.
The penultimate day of the Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA) Mashramani Meet produced five records and 41 personal best times at the Castellani Pool, Homestrectch Avenue on Saturday.
BANGALORE, (Reuters) – Yuvraj Singh produced a stunning all-round show to become the first player to top up a five-wicket haul with a half century in the World Cup as India pulled off a nervy victory over Ireland yesterday.
CHENNAI, (Reuters) – England’s much-maligned bowlers conjured up a lion-hearted effort to pull off a remarkable six-run victory against South Africa as their wildly fluctuating World Cup adventure took another dramatic turn yesterday.
CHANDIGARH, India, CMC – Ottis Gibson has debunked comments from International Cricket Council Chief Executive Officer Haroon Lorgat that seemed to downplay last Friday’s stoning of the West Indies team bus, following their World Cup match against Bangladesh in Dhaka.
MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Pakistan are flying in the World Cup after three straight wins but they still have problems right from the top which New Zealand will aim to exploit when the two meet in their Group A match in Kandy tomorrow.
MIRPUR, Bangladesh, CMC – All proof that West Indies had descended below Bangladesh in the One-day International Rankings was strongly rebuffed yesterday, when they emphatically demolished the World Cup co-hosts by nine wickets.
By Tony Cozier
At the ICC World Cup
In DHAKA
There was an utter ruthlessness about the West Indies humiliation of feeble Bangladesh here yesterday rarely witnessed in their recent times of decline.
DHAKA, (Reuters) – West Indies’ bus was struck by stones thrown by Bangladesh fans after the co-hosts were heavily beaten in the Cricket World Cup Group B match yesterday.
The batting display yesterday at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground, Bourda, again underscored what coach Mark Harper and captain Assad Fudadin have been saying all along.
MIRPUR, Bangladesh, CMC – Darren Sammy hailed Chris Gayle’s stern pep-talk before taking the field for putting West Indies in the right frame of mind ahead of their pivotal World Cup Group-B match against Bangladesh yesterday.
AHMEDABAD, India, CMC – Martin Guptill and Brendon McCullum formalised a 10-wicket victory for New Zealand over Zimbabwe with an unbroken hundred with opening stand in the World Cup yesterday.
Half centuries from Shemroy Barrington and Gajanand Singh, along with spells of good bowling, added some spark to an otherwise ordinary day of cricket at the GCC Ground, Bourda, yesterday.
MUMBAI, (Reuters) – A battle for supremacy between bouncers and yorkers may eventually decide the outcome of tomorrow’s World Cup Group A showdown between Australia and Sri Lanka in Colombo.