Sports

By Iva Wharton Motor cycle ace Stephen Vieira, better known as the local `Valentino Rossi’ is racing to get fit in time for his participation at Sunday’s upcoming meet at the South Dakota Circuit.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – Sachin Tendulkar, who will turn 39 next month, is in no hurry to retire and the prolific Indian batsman has refused to rule himself out of the 2015 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.

 (Reuters) – Luol Deng’s buzzer-beater in overtime gave Chicago a 102-101 victory over the Toronto Raptors at the United Center on Saturday as the Bulls earned their fourth consecutive win and their NBA-leading 40th of the season Deng made a put-back shot for the Bulls as time expired after James Johnson blocked C.J.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia,  CMC – Already assured of at least a share of the spoils in the five-match series, West Indies say they will be going for the jugular against Australia when the final One-Day International bowls off here  today.

The Guyana National Football team secured a 2-0 win over French Guiana in the final match of their -back-to-back fixtures at the Stade de Baduel stadium on Thursday evening.

By Emmerson Campbell Top veteran cyclist Junior Niles used his experience and superior sprinting ability to surge ahead of two juniors yesterday to capture the feature 30-mile race of the sixth annual George Cumberbatch Memorial 10-race cycling event at the National Park Circuit yesterday.

Kieron Pollard’s phenomenal six-hitting capacity has made him among the most sought after cricketers in the newest, shortest and most lucrative format of the game.

The Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) is looking to up the competition level to fine tune the national team in time for the 41st edition of the Carifta Games with a developmental meet at the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) ground from 10:00hrs today.

West Indies leg-spinner and 2011 International Cricket Council (ICC) Emerging player of the player  Devendra Bishoo is expected to be available for Guyana’s regional four-day squad for next week’s potential semi-final fixture.

The national Sevens men’s rugby team lost both of their Pool F games on the second day of the three-day 2012 Cathay Pacific/HSBC World Sevens Series in Hong  Kong yesterday.

Organisers of the 2012 Novices and Intermediate Bodybuilding competition which will be held at the Theater Guild on March 31 continue to receive  corporate support.

The first Baker’s Memorial Cycle Classic being hosted by the Linden Bauxite Flyers Cycling Club will ride off on April 1 at the Amelia’s Ward Circuit in Linden from 11:00hrs.

National Cycling Coach Hassan Mohamed will pedal off the third and final leg of the Cheddi Jagan Memorial races today.

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada,  CMC – An astonishing 26 wickets fell on the second day as Barbados emerged from a low-scoring slugfest with Windward Islands, with a 71-run victory in their Regional Four-Day match here yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Jamaica, leading Combined Campuses and Colleges by 63 on first innings, reached 164 for three in their second innings at the close on the second day of their final round Regional Four-Day match at 3Ws Oval here yesterday.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia,  CMC – Ace fast bowler Fidel Edwards has been called up for West Indies’ two-match Twenty20 International series against Australia starting here next Tuesday.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts,  CMC – Left-arm spinner Kavesh Kantasingh claimed match figures of 10 for 94 to engineer Trinidad and Tobago’s nine-wicket win over hapless Leeward Islands, 15 minutes before tea on the second day of their Regional Four-Day match here yesterday.

DHAKA,  (Reuters) – Bangladesh will ask the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) to review an incident in the final over of the Asia Cup final against Pakistan on Thursday which they believe cost them the game.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia,  CMC – Big-hitting batsman Kieron Pollard smashed a high octane century as West Indies beat Australia by 42 runs in the fourth One-Day International to take a crucial 2-1 lead in the five-match series here yesterday.

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada,  CMC – Barbados captain Kirk Edwards fell agonizingly short of his fifth first class century as his side got the better of the exchanges on the opening day of their final round Regional Four-Day match against Windward Islands here yesterday.