Sports

The Milo Under-23 Football tournament was launched yesterday with president of the Fruta Conquerors Football Club Marlan Cole saying that the mobilisation of the sport is to prevent the youths from falling prey to social vices.

Port of Spain, Trinidad – Following is a statement from the WICB relating to the just commenced negotiations with WIPA.

Table Tennis umpires in Guyana will benefit from a three-day umpire’s clinic which started yesterday and is being conducted by Canada’s International Umpire/Referee, Delano Lai Fatt at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH).

While remnants of their meek batting capitulations in the three-day format reared its head again, the Windward Islands held on for a 56-run victory over the Leeward Islands yesterday at the Demerara Cricket Club in the first round of the WICB limited-overs tournament.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago coach Otto Pfister believes his side has a great chance of qualifying for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, despite what appears a difficult qualifying draw.

Guyana had sub-par performances at the recent Caribbean Basketball Championships in The Bahamas, finishing overall in seventh place out of 10 teams that participated in the prestigious event.

BIRMINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – England captain  Andrew Strauss and India’s Mahendra Singh Dhoni played down the  significance of the world rankings for different reasons yesterday ahead of the third test.

BIRMINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – England captain  Andrew Strauss has been given no indication that the third test  against India will not go ahead as scheduled in Birmingham yesterday despite inner city rioting and looting.

The Enmore Athletic Club did Guyana proud, copping five gold medals, a silver and a bronze at the recently concluded Morvant Jets Mustang Games held recently in Trinidad and Tobago.

National champion Taffin Khan emerged victorious in the senior category of the Emancipation Anniversary Chess Tournament which ended on Sunday at Kei-Shar’s Sport Club.

Pele Football Club downed BK Western Tigers 3-0 Sunday night to cart off the $1,000,000 prize when the inaugural Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) Company Fastball Tournament concluded at the National Stadium, Providence while the Trophy Stall Allstars won the female version of the tournament.

Guyana had to settle for a silver medal following their 6-0 drubbing at the hands of Uruguay in the final of the Pan American Hockey Federation (PAHF) Women’s Challenge Cup  yesterday at the Deodoro Hockey Complex in neighbouring Brazil.

As the West Indies Players Association (WIPA) and the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) sat around the conference of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in Port-of-Spain yesterday, WIPA president Dinanath Ramnarine made it clear that with no Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) cricket will be crippled in the Caribbean.

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) case was adjourned for the second time yesterday by Chief Justice Ian Chang, this time to Thursday.

The 50-overs leg of this year West Indies Under-19 competition gets underway today with three matches.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Rain affected most of the games on the opening day of the WICB Regional Women’s One-day competition.

Kares Engineering inaugural 10/10 Tapeball competition continued on Saturday with seven more teams advancing to the next round of competition in the Georgetown zone at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – In calm seas, 61-year-old American  swimmer Diana Nyad stroked north on Monday into the Florida  Straits in her bid to set a new world record with a 103-mile  (166 km) crossing from Cuba to Key West in Florida.

MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – Unsettled striker  Carlos Tevez returned to Manchester City yesterday and the  English city he had sworn he would never return to.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni  may be showing the first signs of buckling under pressure but  the wicketkeeper-batsman remains the best man for the job,  according to former players.