Sports

Cricket’s most lucrative competition, the Indian Premier League (IPL) is set for another year of awe-inspiring player salaries and unabashed fan worship.

GCC’s pacer Carlos La Rose scythed through GNIC’s top six batters before Zachary Jodah’s half-century handed GCC a huge first-inning advantage over their opponents by stumps on day one of their Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) GISE/Star Party Rentals/Trophy Stall First Division 2-day match yesterday at the Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) Ground on Thomas Lands.

The defending champions of the John Lewis Memorial 7s Rugby tournament, the Guyana Police Force (GPF), launched their title defence in fine style, winning four of their five round robin games yesterday at the Rugby Field in the National Park.

With the primary aim of creating policies and procedures for the establishment of a sports culture, the National Sports Commission is imploring all associations and federations to submit and publish their annual financial statements in a timely fashion.

The GCC Pitbulls, Old Fort Divas, and Saints Sensations tallied comfortable wins when the Kellogg’s Boys and Girls U-14 Hockey League continued on Friday.

By Michaelangelo Jacobus After a four-year hiatus, the Georgetown Zone of the Guinness Greatest of the Streets street football competition kicked off at the National Park last night and fans were fittingly treated to a thriller in the opening match between seasoned campaigners Alexander Village and new kids on the block, Rising Stars.

(Reuters) – Stop clocks used to regulate the time taken between overs will become a permanent fixture at limited-overs internationals from June following a successful trial, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said on Friday.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC – Jonathan Drakes struck his maiden first class hundred to give Barbados Pride a chance at victory against Guyana Harpy Eagles, in their fourth round match in the West Indies Championship.

(ESPN) Bangladesh fought to the end but the 185-run fourth-wicket partnership forged by Pathum Nissanka (114) and Charith Asalanka (91) proved enough in Chattogram, as Sri Lanka secured a narrow three-wicket win to level the series 1-1.

(Reuters) – Delhi Capitals’ preparations for the new Indian Premier League (IPL) season suffered another blow yesterday when fast bowler Lungi Ngidi was ruled out of the tournament due to a lower-back injury.

(Field Level Media) Zion Williamson tallied 34 points, seven rebounds, four assists and three steals and the host New Orleans Pelicans held off the Los Angeles Clippers 112-104 last night.

(Field Level Media) Devin Booker racked up 21 points to guide the Phoenix Suns’ balanced attack in a 107-96 victory against the host Charlotte Hornets last night.

DELHI, India, CMC – Hayley Matthews shone with the ball but failed with the bat as her Mumbai Indians missed out on a place in the Women’s Super League final with a heart-breaking five-run loss to Royal Challengers Bangalore.

KARACHI, Pakistan,  CMC – West Indies Twenty20 star Akeal Hosein produced a gutsy all-round effort but it went in vain as his Quetta Gladiators went down by 39 runs to Obed McCoy’s Islamabad United in the first eliminator of the Pakistan Super League here yesterday.

(Field Level Media) Franz Wagner scored 19 points and the visiting Orlando Magic defeated the undermanned Toronto Raptors 113-103 last  night.

CHELTENHAM, (Reuters) – Galopin Des Champs won the Cheltenham Gold Cup for the second year in succession yesterday to complete a remarkable week for Irish trainer Willie Mullins.

As March 30 quickly approaches, the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) will head into the final phase of preparation for the CARIFTA Games contingent with the second ‘Carifta Team vs The Rest’ track meet which begins today at the National Track & Field Centre (NTFC) at Edinburgh, West Coast Demerara.

Guyana’s ruggers will head into action today as the second edition of the John Lewis Memorial 7s Rugby tournament kicks off at the Rugby Field in the National Park from 11 am.

In what can only be described as thoroughly lopsided, the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) mauled the Pakuri Warriors by a historic 28-0 scoreline when the second round of the Guyana Football Federation’s (GFF) Women’s 1st Division League resumed yesterday at the National Training Centre in Providence.

Safirah Sumner, Mohryan Baksh, Justin Ten-Pow, and Rafael Brathwaite recorded contrasting divisional wins when the Woodpecker Squash Championship continued last evening at the Georgetown Club facility, Camp Street.