Cricket

FALMOUTH, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica’s recent fickle weather upstaged a half-century from national captain Chris Gayle and steady spin bowling from Nikita Miller and Odean Brown to hand Windward Islands a five-wicket, upset victory when this year’s WICB Regional One-day competition opened yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Unruffled composure over two  decades, in the face of the world’s most hostile attacks and the  frenzied demands of a celebrity-fixated society, confirms the  true greatness of Sachin Tendulkar.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – After enduring two stinging  test defeats in India, Ricky Ponting will return home with questions about Australia’s form and his  captaincy ringing in his ears a month before the Ashes start.

POTCHEFSTROOM, South Africa, CMC – Stacy-Ann King’s handy all-round performance helped West Indies Women to a six-wicket victory over South Africa Women in the Twenty20 competition in the ICC Women’s World Challenge yesterday.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Title-holders Trinidad and Tobago will begin their quest for a hat-trick of titles when they face Combined Campuses and Colleges on the opening day of the WICB Regional one-day championship today.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – The International Cricket Council  (ICC) has not found any “compelling evidence” of corruption  against any player or support staff in the Sept.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Despite heavy rains here recently that caused widespread flooding, cricket officials here has declared the country ready to host the West Indies Cricket Board Regional one-day championship which bowls off today.

Manager of the Guyana team which will open their regional one-day campaign in Jamaica on Friday, Carl Moore, is eager to see how the young talent in the squad will blossom.