Guyana’s U17 skipper Jonathan Van Lange top scored with a pugnacious innings of 41 as Guyana rebounded from their first round defeat to Barbados to defeat Jamaica by 29 runs in their second game of the Cricket West Indies Rising Stars U17 Super50 competition.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, CMC – Head coach Darren Sammy said West Indies were still lacking a genuine strike bowler, even in the wake of their triumph in the five-match Twenty20 International series against India.
Eagles and Mambas recorded easy wins when the inaugural edition of the ‘One Guyana’ Basketball Premier League commenced on Saturday evening at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.
CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – South Africa have included precocious batting talent Dewald Brevis in their One-Day and Twenty20 International squads for their eight-match limited-overs home series against Australia starting later this month.
GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – Caribbean Premier League organisers say they plan to collaborate with national stakeholders in several territories to ensure young fans see 10 am games in this year’s tournament free of cost.
Carmel Secondary ascended the plains of immortals, defeating St Ignatius 3-1 last evening to secure the prestigious Digicel Schools Football Championships at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, CMC – Brandon King lashed a career-best unbeaten half-century and Romario Shepherd took career-best figures as West Indies thrashed India by eight wickets to notch their first Twenty20 International series win over the Asian giants in seven years.
Dominoes players from Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, the United States of America and hosts Guyana were in action Saturday when the World Council of Dominoes Federations (WCDF), 19th World Domino Championships got underway at the Providence National Stadium.
The Guyana national U17 cricket team lost its opening match Saturday to Barbados by four wickets as the 50 overs version of Cricket West Indies Rising stars tournament got underway in Trinidad and Tobago.
Barbados has confirmed an 11 member travelling party for the prestigious Winfield Braithwaite Caribbean Schoolboys/Juniors Championship scheduled for August 18th – 20th at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue and president of the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) Steve Ninvalle is delighted with the development.
Defending champions and Olympic medallists are among the 2000 athletes competing at this year’s World Athletic Championships in Budapest, Hungary from August 19 to 27 and a pair of Guyanese will be among them.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Former heavyweight world champion Anthony Joshua beat Finnish stand-in Robert Helenius with a seventh round single-punch knockout on Saturday to keep himself on track for a lucrative payday against American Deontay Wilder next year.
(Reuters) – American fourth seed Jessica Pegula sent a warning shot to her competitors ahead of the U.S.
MUNICH, Germany, (Reuters) – England captain Harry Kane left boyhood club Tottenham Hotspur after 19 years to join European powerhouse Bayern Munich in search of titles, the Bundesliga’s record signing said yesterday.
Agatash and Mora Camp played to a 2-2 stalemate when the Lower Mazaruni Heritage Football Competition commenced on Saturday evening at the Bartica Community Centre ground.
Circuitville and Herstelling recorded victories when the East Bank Football Association Senior Men’s League continued yesterday at the Timehri Red ground.
Beacons and Riddim Squad continued their winning ways in the Georgetown Football Association Senior Men’s League yesterday at the Georgetown Football Club ground, Bourda.
Uitvlugt and Pouderoyen recorded easy wins in the West Demerara Football Association Senior Men’s League yesterday at the Tuschen ground.
(ESPN) India’s multi-format tour of the Caribbean and the USA ended with a T20I series defeat to West Indies, with their lack of lower-order batting muscle and a lacklustre bowling show playing a part in Sunday’s result in Florida.
The nation’s top sports administrators yesterday turned out in full to welcome home Guyana’s Commonwealth Youth Games heroes following their exploits in Trinidad and Tobago.
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