Sports

The Inter Guiana Games (IGG) Trials which is scheduled for this Sunday at the Police Sports Club ground, Eve Leary, will only be for athletes under the age of 19.

The Texaco Bel Air Service Station yesterday partnered with the Guyana Chess Federation to be the exclusive sponsor of a One Day Rapid Chess Tournament that will be staged this Sunday at the West Demerara Secondary School.

St John’s, Antigua – Jamaican all rounder Nkrumah Bonner, who was yesterday named on the West Indies Twenty20 squad for two matches against England has said that his time at the Sagicor High Performance Centre has helped his game significantly.

Bridgetown, Barbados – The members West Indies Under-19 squad has assembled in Barbados for a one-week camp as they prepare for a tour of India next month.

Guyana produced a sub par performance finishing third at the recent Caribbean Table Tennis Championships  held at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall but national coach Linden Johnson feels the players could have done better.

Guyana’s national football team ‘The Golden Jaguars’ will look to impose their will on the Indian national team when a friendly game of football gets underway between the two nations at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence, tomorrow from 19:00hrs.

Chief Justice Ian Chang yesterday struck out an action brought by Angela Haniff in her capacity as secretary of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) which sought to restrain the Ramsey Ali-led Guyana Cricket Board executives from functioning.

LONDON, (Reuters) – English soccer club West Ham  United cleared another hurdle in their bid to move into London’s  Olympic stadium after the 2012 Games when an independent  investigation yesterday said the procedure surrounding the bid  had not been compromised.

A large crowd witnessed Donut Prince of the Colin Elcock stable upstaging a quality field to take the feature C Class event of fifth Guyana Cup horse race event at the Port Mourant Turf Club on Sunday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – As a signal that England were no  longer prepared to tolerate physical and mental flabbiness, Ian  Bell was told to go away and toughen up after his side were  bowled out for 51 by West Indies in February, 2009.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England swept to a series  whitewash over India in the fourth test at the Oval yesterday after Sachin Tendulkar had been dismissed nine runs short of a  100th international century.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Lasith Malinga became the first  bowler to take three one-day international hat-tricks as Sri  Lanka beat Australia by four wickets in the fifth and final  match of their series yesterday.

MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – Striker Danny  Welbeck scored one goal and created another to inspire a  youthful Manchester United team to a 3-0 win over Tottenham  Hotspur in an entertaining Premier League match at Old Trafford yesterday.

The Demerara Cricket Club’s (DCC) second annual cricket camp got underway yesterday at the club’s ground in Queenstown.

DAEGU, South Korea, (Reuters) – Budapest has  withdrawn its candidacy for the 2017 world athletics  championships, leaving a three-way fight between London,  Barcelona and Doha.

TOTANA, Spain,  (Reuters) – Spaniard Pablo Lastras  battled through searing heat yesterday to claim victory in the  Tour of Spain’s third stage, marking his first win in more than  three years and his first ever lead in a major Tour.  

TOTANA, Spain, (Reuters) – Double champion and  leading favourite Denis Menchov’s dismal start to the Tour of  Spain continued  yesterday when he lost one minute 23 seconds to  the other contenders on a seemingly straightforward stage.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Veteran striker Stern John scored his 70th international goal and former Turkey-based frontman Darryl Roberts added a brace, as Trinidad and Tobago ensured new coach Otto Pfister’s reign started with a 3-0 win over lowly India here Sunday night.

RALEIGH, North Carolina, (Reuters) – Russian Igor  Andreev opened the Winston-Salem Open with an upset, blasting  by second seeded Austrian Jurgen Melzer 7-5 6-3 yesterday to  reach the second round of ATP Tour’s newest tournament.  

Guyana clinched Group C with an impressive 2-0 victory over Anguilla in the final match of the first round of the CONCACAF Under-17 World Cup Qualifiers at the Uitvlugt Community Centre ground, yesterday.