The players on the national cricket team will sit out the final round of fixtures this weekend in the ongoing 2011/12 Regional four-day competition, hoping that results play out in their favour that would enable them to qualify for the semi-finals.
The Guyana national football team, known as the “Golden Jaguars”, continued their preparation for their third round 2014 world qualifiers scheduled to commence in June, with a pair of fixtures against neighbours French Guiana.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Carlos Tevez marked his Manchester City return by setting up Samir Nasri’s late winner in a vital 2-1 home victory over Chelsea yesterday that kept the pressure on leaders Manchester United in the title race.
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – Australia captain Shane Watson says West Indies’ fighting spirit in the ongoing five-match One-Day International series has not come as a surprise.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Coach of the Under-23 Trinidad and Tobago squad, Angus Eve has hailed the quality of the 20-man squad selected this week to contest the final round of CONCACAF qualifiers for the 2012 Olympics.
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – Fit-again Adrian Barath has replaced out-of-form left-hander Kieran Powell in the only change to the 13-man West Indies squad for the last two One-Day Internationals of the five-match series against Australia.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Support appears to be steadily growing for Cayman Islands Football Association president Jeffrey Webb who has been tipped to take over CONCACAF when elections are held in May.
DUBAI, (Reuters) – Afghanistan and Namibia, unbeaten in the group stages of the qualifying tournament for this year’s World Twenty20 Cup, meet today in a match which will secure the victors a tr i p to Sri Lanka.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Congress postponed a key World Cup bill again yesterday, a move that is likely to frustrate officials of football’s governing body who say its passage is crucial to preparations for the 2014 World Cup.
The state of tennis in Guyana could be ranked among the top ten of the 22 countries within the region, according to International Tennis Federation (ITF) Development Officer of the English-speaking Caribbean, Anthony Jeremiah.
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – West Indies and Australia played to a dramatic tie in the third One-Day International, in a thrilling finish to a riveting contest at Arnos Vale here yesterday.
The national men’s Sevens rugby team is currently in Hong Kong to take part in the 24-team Cathay Pacific/HSBC Sevens World Series which will kick off on Friday and end on Sunday.
MADRID, (Reuters) – Lionel Messi’s stunning hat-trick set a Barcelona scoring record of 234 goals as the La Liga champions won an action-packed home game against Granada 5-3 to close within five points of La Liga leaders Real Madrid yesterday.
LONDON, (Reuters) – The Premier League will review its medical procedures in the wake of Fabrice Muamba’s cardiac arrest while playing for Bolton Wanderers against Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday.
Twenty-year-old striker Sheldon Holder put on an impressive performance on his debut for his club Neal and Massy Caledonia AIA during the latest round of fixtures in the Trinidad and Tobago Professional League (TTPL) last weekend.
(Reuters) – The Chicago Bulls continue to thrive in the absence of league MVP Derrick Rose and cemented their place at the top of the Eastern Conference with a suffocating 85-59 road win over the Orlando Magic on Monday.
DHAKA, (Reuters)- Tamim Iqbal celebrated his 23rd birthday with a half-century and Shakib Al Hasan also made fifty as Bangladesh beat Sri Lanka by five wickets yesterday to get to the Asia Cup final for the first time.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Attention will be centred especially on two games this weekend when the final round of the Regional Four-Day Championship bowls off across the region.
Halfway through the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association’s (GABA) league, Banks DIH by way of its Powerade hydration drink and an undisclosed sum of money pledged its support to boost the league yesterday at Banks DIH headquarters, Thirst Park.