Sports

As expected, not a ball was bowled at any of the venues on the final day of the round four matches of  the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) three-day Under-19 tournament.

The Berbice Cricket Board’s (BCB) second annual Elite Training Programme got off to a successful start on Friday at the Port Mourant Cricket Ground.

President of the Guyana Rugby Football Union Kit Nascimento will be Guyana’s representative at the  North America and  Caribbean Rugby Association’s (NACRA) Annual General Meeting in Miami, Florida.

Virtual unknown, Grande Roja, of the Jumbo Jet stable created another upset at the Port Mourant Turf Club on Sunday, at the Annual Emancipation Day seven-event horse race meet.

Guyanese and West Indies batting star Ramnaresh Sarwan has vowed to win back his Test place after acknowledging that he nearly gave up the game eight months ago, according to a report today in The Royal Gazette Online of Bermuda.

Leading netball club Emanie made good on its promise to successfully defend its title when the Guyana Netball Association (GNA) staged its National Under 23 Tournament last weekend at the National Gymnasium.

Executives of the Lusignan Golf Club and associates of outgoing Canadian High Commissioner Francois Montour will be in action later today in a farewell tournament in honour of the diplomat at the Lusignan Golf Club starting at 13:00 hours.

The seventh annual Ricks and Sari Agro Industries Limited, Memorial Regan Rodriques 50-mile cycle road race is scheduled to ride off this Sunday on the West Bank of Demerara.

HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – West Indies batting star Ramnaresh Sarwan has admitted he considered quitting international cricket recently but says he now intends to fight for his spot in the regional side.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Maria Sharapova may not have  won a grand slam title since 2008, but the Russian tennis  player remains unchallenged as the world’s highest paid woman  in professional sports.

Guyana produced a stellar performance to claim 12 medals at the recently concluded Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) Games in Venezuela.

President of the Guyana Badminton Association (GBA) and manager of the Guyana team to the Pan American Junior championships in Jamaica, Gokarn Ramdhani said yesterday he was pleased with the performance of the Guyana team to the championships which ended yesterday at the National Sports Centre.

By Staff Reporter Not even the rain could put a damper on the performance of Guyana’s top racing driver Mark Vieira at the South Dakota Circuit on Sunday.

Says Colin Benjamin As Mother Nature continued its relentless downpour in the city it brought the scheduled second day of the fourth round matches in the West Indies Cricket Board regional Under-19 three-day tournament to a halt yesterday.

Heavy showers yesterday morning washed out the planned farewell golf tournament for outgoing Canadian High Commissioner Francois Montour scheduled for yesterday at the Lusignan Golf Club, East Coast Demerara.

National junior 400m champion athlete Stephan James will not be participating in the football segment of this year’s Inter Guiana Games (IGG) his coach Sham Johnny has declared.

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – The fastest man in the world  stares at a blank piece of paper for a few seconds and, finding  no inspiration, turns to his manager.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Tiger Woods has signed up to play  at the Australian Open in Sydney in November, organisers said yesterday, making the former world number one a likely starter at  the following week’s Presidents Cup.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – As a former World Cup winner,  Juergen Klinsmann knows what it takes to rule the world.

LONDON, England, CMC – Chesney Hughes’ patient 44 on Sunday was not enough to stave off defeat for Derbyshire as they went down by seven wickets to Middlesex in their County Championship clash here yesterday.