Sports

Alonzo Greaves out sprinted his opponents to win yesterday’s 8th Annual Caricom Day Wheat Up Cycle Road Race sponsored by National Milling Company (NAMILCO) held  on the East Bank of Demerara.

After an exhibition game on Saturday evening, the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) Tennis Open curtains came down with the winners receiving their trophies on the lawns of the GBTI Sports Club.

Asks Colin Benjamin As the talented but non-producing West Indies batting again stumbled disappointingly to put up a substantial total in the just concluded second test against India, it seems likely that the team would most certainly have lost the second test if rain hadn’t washed out the third day’s play.

Many in the cricketing world will be surprised to learn that Basil Butcher was the first person of Amerindian descent to represent the West Indies in the English ball game of cricket.

Diamond Cricket Club yesterday won the 2011 Saskia Investment Trading and Ice-Parlour sponsored East Bank Cricket Association limited overs competition after  securing a 31-run victory over association rivals North Soesdyke in the final at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) ground.

He was gifted with eagle-like eyes’ and he had the speed of a hare and the concentration of a man on fire.

Guyana’s Euleen Josiah- Tanner on Sunday won the female category of the sixth CARICOM 10K road race held in St Kitts, Nevis under the theme “Run for life… Exercise your right.”

Guyanese fighters Stephan Gouveia and Bert Braithwaite have qualified for today’s quarterfinal of the American Boxing Confederation’s third and final qualifiers in Panama City on Sunday evening.

By Treiston Joseph School of the Nations edged out Government Technical Institute (GTI) 37-34 in the National Schools’ Basketball Festival organized by the Youth basketball Guyana (YBG) and the National Sports Commission (NSC) at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) last Sunday.

Robin Persaud powered to the Caricom Day 50-mile Cycle road race which was staged from Bushy Park on the East Bank of Essequibo to the Demerara Harbour Bridge where it concluded, on Sunday.

East Coast and West Demerara will clash this morning in the first match of the rescheduled Inter-Association cricket tournament according to a release from Cricket Development Officer of the Guyana Cricket Board Reon King.

Abuzz with the success of Terron Alleyne, top student at this year’s National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA), Lindeners welcomed the historic GT&T Fastball tournament in grand fashion with much pomp and ceremony Saturday evening at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Ramnaresh Sarwan paid the ultimate price for his failures in the first two Tests against India.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC – West Indies Cricket Board officials said yesterday that they will continue their efforts to meet resolve all outstanding issues with Chris Gayle.

Unlike previous years, only three overseas-based players have been included in the Guyana 15-member squad for the 21st Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC) Championships in the Bahamas.

Says Colin Benjamin The 2011 edition of the Guyana and Trinidad Mutual (GTM) three-day and 50 over-a-side competition has concluded with a mixture of positive and negative results even as Guyana prepares to host the TCL Group regional Under-19 tournament later this month.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Twelve years after leaving home  with a racket bag full of dreams Novak Djokovic saw two of them  come true in three remarkable days at Wimbledon, culminating in  an emphatic victory over Rafa Nadal in the men’s singles final yesterday.

The second staging of the five-a-side Inter-Market Futsal football competition scheduled to commence at the National Gymnasium on July 28, received its usual sponsorship from Chetsons the official agent for Clarks shoes in Guyana, in a short handing over ceremony

LONDON, (Reuters) – Dinesh Chandimal stroked an  unbeaten 105 to help Sri Lanka to a convincing six-wicket win  over England at Lord’s yesterday as the tourists took a 2-1 lead  in the one-day series.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England’s Stuart Broad has been  fined 50 percent of his match fee for showing “serious dissent”  at an umpire’s decision during the second one-day international  against Sri Lanka, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said yesterday.