Sports

Pele Football Club, winners of the recent inaugural GT&T FastBall knock-out football competition along with other top performers received their cash prizes for their performances throughout the tournament.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Fast bowler Brett Lee and  spinner Xavier Doherty took four wickets apiece as Australia  crushed Sri Lanka by five wickets to win the fourth one-day  international and take an unbeatable 3-1 lead in the five-match  series at the R Premadasa Stadium yesterday.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Australia’s coach and captain  are to be brought into an expanded national selection panel on  the recommendation of a report into the humiliating Ashes defeat, Cricket Australia (CA) said on Friday.

MASON, Ohio, (Reuters) – Britain’s Andy Murray will face world number one Novak  Djokovic in the final of the Cincinnati Open today.

Georgetown Cricket Club and Gandhi Youth Organization “B” recorded victories while Demerara Cricket Club (DCC), who dominated their encounter, had an incomplete match due rain, on the final day of the inaugural De Sinco Trading, GCA Under-13 cricket competition yesterday.

Anguilla moved to the top of Group C with their victory over Curacao yesterday as the first round of the CONCACAF Under-17 World Cup Qualifiers continued at the Uitvlugt Community Centre ground The Anguillans gained three points with the eventual 2-1 scoreline leaving Guyana in a virtual must-win position for tomorrow’s match

Drama and tension defined the ladies singles final as Trinidad’s Rheann Chung played a masterful game to win the  title of the Caribbean Table Tennis Championships at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall yesterday.

MIAMI, Florida, CMC – Jamaican Glen “The Road Warrior” Johnson will meet super middleweight champion Lucian Bute in Canada this November and says he is looking forward to the clash.

NICE, (Reuters) –  Former French pole-vaulter Pierre Quinon, who won the gold  medal at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984, has died in an  apparent suicide, the French Athletics Federation said on  Thursday.

A solid all round performance by Guyana Under-19 player Clinton Pestano inspired defending champions Lower Corentyne to successfully defend their Diamond Fire & General Insurance Under-19 Inter-zone title at the Port Mourant Cricket Ground recently.

MASON, Ohio, (Reuters) – The once dominant top two in  men’s tennis, Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal, head into the U.S. 

SPLIT, Croatia, (Reuters) – World high jump champion  Blanka Vlasic will defend her title despite a hamstring injury  which nearly forced her to pull out of the upcoming world  championships in the South Korean city of Daegu, she said yesterday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – U.S. sprinter Michael Rodgers,  who tested positive for a prohibited stimulant last month, has  accepted a provisional suspension yesterday and withdrew from  this month’s world championships in South Korea.

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – World champion Steve Mullings  has confirmed he has tested positive for the banned diuretic  furosemide and could now face a life ban from athletics.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago’s Olympic bronze medallist George Bovell III was moved to a private hospital  ysterday after receiving stitches and suffering “moderate head injuries” following a vehicular accident.

The Universal DVD Berbice Titans, without any overseas internationals and urged on by a sellout crowd,  recently defeated the Gizmos & Gadgets Georgetown Pitbulls in the final to maintain their supremacy of local T20 cricket.

Local beverage giant Banks DIH is on board for Sunday’s 5th Annual Guyana Cup Horse Race Meet at the Port Mourant Turf Club Course on the Corentyne.

The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB)/Scotia Bank Cricket Academy will commence its 3rd annual cricket academy on  August 29 at the Area ‘H’ Ground.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Ian Bell and Kevin Pietersen  shared a record partnership of 350 yesterday as England  ruthlessly dissected an inadequate India attack on the second  day of the fourth and final test at the Oval.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – As India cries out for a pace  bowler to add some much-needed bite to its depleted attack, one  man in the frame to become a future new ball spearhead believes  speed alone cannot guarantee success.