Sports

Georgetown recorded a 37-run victory over East Coast in the 2nd round of the 2011 Female Inter-Association 50-overs Cricket Tournament at Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) Ground yesterday.

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – West Indies were offered a temporary reprieve in the third and final Test against India yesterday, after persistent rain wrecked Windsor Park’s inauguration.

For Chetram Singh, president of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB), Sunday cannot come soon enough for him to hand over power to the new president if elections are held,  he said yesterday.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Usain Bolt knows he has been short  of his very best form since returning from injury and is keen to  be more like his true self when running the 200 metres at the  Paris Diamond League meeting tomorrow.

Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) president Chetram Singh, on behalf of the executives and cricketing public, has extended  congratulations to prolific Guyana and West Indies batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul on his surpassing the record for the most Test appearances by a West Indies player.

The Digicel Caribbean Area Squash Association (CASA) Junior Championships which will be held in Guyana from July 8–14 is expected to showcase the best junior squash players in the Caribbean with competition among players from seven different countries.

Rain washed out the 2nd and final day of Guyana’s opening game of the regional under-15 cricket series at the Wilson Road Recreation Ground in Penal, South Trinidad.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Frank Vogel was named head  coach of the Indiana Pacers on Wednesday, about five months  after he took over the struggling team on an interim basis and  led them to a playoff berth.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The surface at the equestrian  venue for the London 2012 Olympics has been criticised by  competitors at the end of a three-day test event.

Dominic Vincente led Trust College easily past Port Mourant Secondary on Tuesday in the National Schools Basketball Festival at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Nigel Bryan stepped up his play to produce a dominant performance and walked away with the Men’s Singles title in the annual Independence Day Table Tennis Tournament last Monday at the National Gymna-sium.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – FIFA could allow matches at the  2022 World Cup finals in Qatar to be played over three 30-minute  periods if temperatures in the stadiums became dangerously high  for the players, a senior stadium engineer told delegates at a  conference yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Captain Alastair Cook continued  his impressive form with the bat as England cruised to a  10-wicket win over Sri Lanka in the fourth one-day international  at Trent Bridge yesterday to level the five-match series at  2-2.

LONDON, (Reuters) – FIFA’s Ethics Committee will meet  on July 22-23 to decide the fate of suspended Asian soccer chief  Mohammed Bin Hammam over the alleged bribery scandal at the  Caribbean Football Union meeting in May, world soccer’s  governing body said yesterday.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Usain Bolt has all the tools to  be a top-class long jumper but the Jamaican should wait until  after the 2012 Olympics to give the event a go, world record  holder Mike Powell has told Reuters.  

LONDON, (Reuters) – Mark Webber made plenty of  headlines when he won last year’s British Grand Prix after  accusing Red Bull of favouring team mate Sebastian Vettel and a  repeat victory would be no less sweet on Sunday.

WELLINGTON, (Reuters) – New Zealand’s taxpayers will  be breathing a slight sigh of relief after ticket sales for the  rugby World Cup surged in the past six weeks, with more than one  million now snapped up for the Sept.

CAP FREHEL, FRANCE, (Reuters) – Briton Mark Cavendish  won the 164.5-kms fifth stage from Carhaix yesterday.

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – West Indies will hope to level their series with India in the third and final Test starting here today, and make Windsor Park’s historic first Test a memorable one.

Guyanese off-spinner Shivon Sankar was in excellent form on Tuesday as he grabbed figures of six wickets for seven runs against the Leeward Islands on the opening day of the second round of the regional under-15 cricket series at the Wilson Road Recreation Ground in Penal, South Trinidad.