Pee Wee U-11 Boy’s Football
Defending champion St. Pius, Marian Academy, Santa Rosa, West Ruimveldt, and Belladrum earned berths to the quarterfinal round following contrasting wins in the round of 16 when the Courts Pee Wee U-11 Boy’s Football Championship continued yesterday.
One Guyana 3-Stage Cycling
– competition wraps up today
By Michelangelo Jacobus
Kaieteur Attack Racing Cycle Club’s Jamual John etched his name into the annals of Guyana’s cycling history by capturing the first ever stage of the inaugural One Guyana 3-Stage Cycling Championship.
GH Renovations T20 Cricket
McGill Superstars, VNS, and Canal #2 recorded comfortable victories when the West Demerara Cricket Association sanctioned GH Renovations T20 Championship continued.
The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) yesterday announced the appointment of Sir Clive Hubert Lloyd as a ‘Special Technocrat’ to the Board with immediate effect.
(Reuters) – Russian-born Canadian Artur Beterbiev was crowned boxing’s undisputed light-heavyweight world champion after beating Russian rival Dmitry Bivol on a majority points decision in Saudi Arabia.
(Reuters) – India beat Bangladesh by 133 runs in Hyderabad yesterday, after making a huge total of 297 – the second highest in men’s Twenty20 Internationals – to complete a clean sweep of the three-match series.
(CMC) – While West Indies’ T20 captain Rovman Powell is expecting a “fascinating” series against Sri Lanka, he fully believes his troops will come out on top.
(ESPN) India will go into the home Test series against New Zealand with pretty much the same squad that took on Bangladesh in September – that means Mohammed Shami hasn’t recovered in time for what will be India’s last red-ball action ahead of the five-Test series in Australia to close out this year.
Concacaf Nations League
By Michelangelo Jacobus
Guyana’s National Men’s football team, the Golden Jaguars, suffered a tough 3-1 defeat to Guatemala in their Concacaf Nations League ‘A’ fixture on homesoil as an Oscar Santis brace either side of halftime ensured that his side left the National Track & Field Center (NTFC), Edinburgh, West Coast Demerara with three points.
(Trinidad Guardian) West Indies players can now be selected to play in any format—Tests, Twenty20 (T20s) or One-Day Internationals (ODI)—even if they do not play in the corresponding domestic format.
(Reuters) – Australia captain Pat Cummins is expecting the upcoming series against India to be a survival of fittest as his team look to avenge consecutive losses on home soil when the two nations go head-to-head over five tests from late November.
JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Aiden Markram will replace Temba Bavuma as South Africa captain for the first test against Bangladesh later this month, Cricket South Africa said yesterday.
By Andre E Baptiste
(Trinidad Guardian) The truth is, the less said on the 2024 version of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) will best do this imitation of years gone, the justice it deserves.
(ESPN) An Australian side struck by two injuries marched to a third massive win over a depleted Pakistan team, who slumped to the lowest total of the tournament so far.
(Trinidad Guardian) T&T Soca Warriors chances of reaching the semifinals of this Concacaf Nations League took a heavy blow after twice letting a one-goal lead slip in a 2-2 draw away to Cuba in their penultimate League A Group B match at in Santiago de Cuba on Thursday.
MULTAN, Pakistan, (Reuters) – England, riding on the sublime batting of Harry Brook and Joe Root, became the first team to win a test by an innings after conceding more than 500 runs in the first stanza, sealing the victory early on the fifth day of the series opener yesterday.
(Reuters) – New Zealand plan to take the game to India with a “no fear” approach when they play tests in Bengaluru, Pune and Mumbai over the next month, new captain Tom Latham said yesterday.
(Reuters) – Nottingham Forest have been fined 750,000 pounds ($979,500) and warned for misconduct in relation to a social media post criticising the referee after their Premier League defeat by Everton last season, the Football Association said on Friday.
-Best Beginner Trophy also up for Grabs
Asian restaurant chain, Jade’s Wok in addition to Pinnacle Business Services have thrown their support behind Guyana Women in Chess Community (GWICC) under the umbrella of the Guyana Chess Federation, to sponsor the inaugural Queenside Rapid Tournament which is set for today.