ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Off-spinner Shane Shillingford’s five-wicket haul on the final day of the three-day match against New Zealand yesterday was not enough to earn him a spot in the first Test squad against the tourists starting Wednesday.
BARCELONA, Spain, (Reuters) – When Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird hit Barcelona 20 years ago they ushered in a new era of Olympic basketball, their Dream Team of NBA stars firing the imagination of hoopsters around the globe.
BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Lenico Boucher’s unbeaten century fired Barbados to their second straight win while Windward Island produced yet another brilliant run chase to also post their second victory, on the final day of the second round of matches in the West Indies Cricket Board Under-15 Championship here yesterday.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Hashim Amla hit the highest test score by a South African with an unbeaten 311 to put his side within sight of a crushing victory over England on the fourth day of the first test at the Oval yesterday.
PARIS, (Reuters) – Bradley Wiggins was greeted by thousands of Union Jack-waving fans on the Champs Elysees when he claimed the 99th edition of the Tour de France to become the first British winner of the famous race yesterday.
Fifteen-year-old Nyron Joseph produced an outstanding come-from-behind performance in the semi-final of the Caribbean Area Squash Association’s (CASA) Junior Caribbean Squash Championships in Jamaica to advance to today’s final.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Guyanese left-hander Narsingh Deonarine staked his claim ahead of the opening Test against New Zealand starting Wednesday, with a stroked-filled century on the second day of the three-day match against the tourists here yesterday.
With the third annual Hugh Ross Classic just days away and with the arrival of the World renowned bodybuilder in Guyana the event is picking up momentum and promising to be well —- a Classic.
By Emmerson Campbell Three grade ones, three grade twos, four grade threes and a grade four – those are the CXC grades of 22- year-old Kishawn Simon who will be making his professional boxing debut on the 25th edition of the Guyana Fight Night Pro Am card at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on July 27.
SYDNEY, Australia, CMC – Exciting West Indies off-spinner Sunil Narine is headed to Australia’s Twenty20 Big Bash League after signing with defending champions Sydney Sixers.
CHARTRES, France, (Reuters) – Bradley Wiggins was 120 km away from becoming the first Briton to win the Tour de France after he outclassed the rest of the bunch in the penultimate stage, a 53.5-km time trial to Chartres yesterday.
ST KITTS – A rainy day throughout the island of St Kitts left the Under 15 cricketers frustrated as they were on and off the field as Round II of the West Indies Cricket Board’s Under 15 Tournament got underway yesterday.
Atlantis Cricket Club of the United States of America yesterday scored a 15-run victory over a Guyana Police Force XI in the second match of the three-way club teams T20 match at the Guyana Police Sports Club ground, Eve Leary.
For the second straight year at the Caribbean Area Squash Association’s (CASA) Junior Caribbean Squash Championships, the girls under 19 final will be contested by two Guyanese players.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Graeme Smith scored a century in his 100th test and Hashim Amla was 183 not out as South Africa took control of the first test against England at stumps on the third day yesterday.
For a variety of reasons, the two forthcoming Tests between the West Indies and New Zealand rank as little more than an irrelevancy as international sporting – indeed cricketing – contests go.
Caribbean Under-15 girls’ singles runner up Chelsea Edghill kept alive her chances of qualifying for the 2014 Junior Olympic Games in China by reaching the quarter finals of the Mexico Open currently in progress in Mexico.
The inaugural Red Cherry Ladder Chess Tournament kicks off this morning at the Kei-Shar’s Sports Club, Hadfield Street.
National fullbore captain Mahendra Persaud won a Bronze Bar when he placed 37th overall in the Daily Mail tournament at the Annual Bisley shooting championships in Great Britain.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – West Indies fast bowler Kemar Roach made a successful return to action following injury, producing a four-wicket haul to limit New Zealand on a rain-hit opening day of the three-day tour match against the WICB President’s XI here yesterday.
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