Cricket

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company in collaboration with the Guyana Softball League and the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport launched the 2011 edition of the 10/10 Softball Cricket Competition last evening at the International Conference Centre.

By Marlon Munroe Former Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) General Secretary Bishwa Panday believes that the current campaign for the top post of the GCB at the upcoming Annual General Meeting (AGM) should focus on issues and not mudslinging.

VADODARA, India, CMC – West Indies snatched a surprise 2-1 lead in their five-match One-Day International series against India when they beat the World’s third-ranked side by three wickets here yesterday.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – India levelled the one-day series at 1-1 after paceman Munaf Patel clinched a thrilling one-run win over South Africa in the second match at the Wanderers yesterday.

WELLINGTON, (Reuters) – Pakistan wicketkeeper Adnan Akmal took five catches as New Zealand’s top order failed to capitalise on sound starts and battled to 246 for six at the close of play on the first day of the second test at a windswept Basin Reserve yesterday.

THERE were all the mixed emotions so typical of such West Indian occasions.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) have announced a major television distribution rights deal for the Digicel Series for the next two years.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Leeward Islands limped out of the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship without so much as a whimper, crashing to a lame 46-run defeat to Hampshire here yesterday.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Former West Indies captain Richie Richardson has been appointed manager of the embattled regional side.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – An arena that bears the name of a batsman that terrorised bowlers all around the World during his playing days appropriately provides the backdrop, as the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship opens today.

DURBAN,  (Reuters) – Rohit Sharma blazed a half-century  as India cantered to a 21-run win over South Africa in a one-off  Twenty20 international at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban yesterday.

HAMILTON, New Zealand, (Reuters) – Pakistan   completed a thumping 10-wicket victory in the first test over   New Zealand inside three days after they had bowled the hosts  out for just 110 in their second innings after the tea break yesterday.

MUMBAI, India, CMC – West Indies Women will be looking to make history, when their five-match One-day International series against India Women opens today at the Bandra Kurla Complex.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A half-century from Dwayne Smith failed to inspire Barbados, and they suffered another setback in their preparation for the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship, when English county Hampshire prevailed in a nail-biting, three-wicket victory on Saturday.

‘Mr.Knowledge’ is no more. Saturday night, Trinidad and Tobago and the West Indies lost one the greatest servants of cricket in the region, then Michael ‘Joey’ Carew passed on at the age of 73, at his home at Warren Street Woodbrook, Port-of-Spain.

BANGALORE, India, CMC – Recovering West Indies fast bowler Jerome Taylor has quite remarkably been able to snag an Indian Premier League deal.

SYDNEY, CMC – Chris Gayle served notice on Indian Premier League bidders, when he set a new Twenty20 Big Bash record in a dashing half-century that helped to set-up a 19-run victory for Western Australia against New South Wales yesterday.

This year’s Caribbean Twenty20 side is missing a few key elements from last year but Manager Carl Moore is confident that new stars will emerge to ensure Guyana make a successful defence of their title when the tournament bowls off on Monday in Antigua.

All regional cricket matches under the auspices of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) will now be shown live on the ESPN Caribbean television channel for the next three years.

HAMILTON, New Zealand, (Reuters) – Pakistan made short  work of the tail to bowl New Zealand out for 275 early on the  second day of the first test at Seddon Park yesterday.