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 Anthony Drayton
Anthony Drayton

Unbeaten Feng in the lead after four rounds

Top junior player Suhai Feng maintained his lead after four rounds of the National Closed Junior Chess Championships following yesterday’s play at the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) building on High Street.

Chris Gayle

Pollard, Gayle to square off after Mumbai reach final

CHENNAI, India, IANS-CMC – Kieron Pollard will square off with West Indies counterpart Chris Gayle in today’s Champions League Twenty20 final after his Mumbai Indians beat English county Somerset by 10 runs in the second semi-final of the lucrative tournament here yesterday.

Riders in attack mode at Reliance (Orlando Charles photo)

‘Fishy’ Williams joins the party

By Emmerson Campbell With Guyanese Godfrey Pollydore and Mark Lewis winning the first and third stages respectively, their fellow countryman Marlon ‘Fishy’ Williams must have felt the urge to taste success as well Williams responded by winning yesterday’s fourth stage of this year’s Ride for Life five-stage road race in fine fashion

Suhai Feng

Feng in the lead after two rounds

Top junior player Suhai Feng shrugged off his controversy with the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) to snatch the lead after two rounds of the Closed National Junior Chess Championhips which got underway yesterday at the West Demerara Secondary School.

Ramnaresh Sarwan playing a shot through the off-side shots during the Guyana national cricket team’s net session at Bourda, yesterday. (Aubrey Crawford Photo)

Regional teams expected this week

Co-defending Regional limited overs champions the Leeward Islands (who tied with Barbados at Sabina Park in last year’s final) and the Windward Islands are expected to arrive in Guyana this weekend in order to have an early acclimatisation camp ahead of the Regional Super50 one-day tournament which is scheduled to bowl off in Guyana on  October 18.

Jonathan Carter

The untimely and the absurd

Unless the quote was lost in translation in the Reuters transmission from Dhaka, neither the question at the media briefing on the West Indies’ team arrival in Bangladesh or Ottis Gibson’s answer was surprising.

Kellon Carmichael of Malteenoes about to drive GCC new-ball bowler Kevin Ogle down the ground. (Aubrey Crawford Photo)

Haslim, Ferrier star on first day

Malteenoes were eight runs ahead at the end of the opening day of the Carib Beer/Friends of Cricket Heroes Cup, two-day, first-division match against the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) Ground, yesterday.

Bermuda over the moon after beating Soca Warriors

HAMILTON, Bermuda,  CMC – Bermuda coach Devarr Boyles was over the moon while his opposite number, German Otto Pfister said there was no need to “press the panic button just yet” after the home side stunned regional powerhouses Trinidad and Tobago on Friday night

The Guyana Defence Force celebrates after winning the overall championships yesterday evening.(Orlando Charles photo)

Records tumble as GDF dethrones GPF

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) tumbled five records on their way to dethroning the Guyana Police Force (GPF) at the 2011 Joint Services Championships at the GDF ground, Camp Ayanganna yesterday.

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