Attempts are being made to field a media women’s softball cricket team in the upcoming Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company Limited in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, 10/10 softball tournament which bowls off next month.
CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – Yusuf Pathan blazed a half-century but India still had to call on their tailenders to clinch victory over South Africa by two wickets in the third one-day international at Newlands yesterday.
RAJKOT, India, CMC – Prolific teenager Stafanie Taylor missed out on a century as Mithali Raj converted hers to condemn West Indies women to a 10-run loss to India in the fourth One-Day International here yesterday.
MELBOURNE, Australia, CMC – Australia’s selectors yesterday announced their 15-man World Cup squad to challenge for their fourth successive title with no room found for Test pacer Peter Siddle.
Former national chess champion Wendell Meusa is among four players in the lead at the end of the third round of the senior category of the Trophy Stall tournament which is being held at the Kei-Shars Sports Club, Hadfield Street.
CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – Batting stalwart Jacques Kallis was named in South Africa’s World Cup squad on yesterday despite missing the current series against India due to a rib injury.
PERTH, Australia, CMC – Chris Gayle’s Western Australia trounced Dwayne Bravo’s Victoria by six wickets in the Twenty20 Big Bash yesterday but both players failed to spark with modest performances.
By Marlon Munroe The Amazon Conquerors find themselves in a must-win situation to secure a clear passage to the semi-final round of the Caribbean Twenty20 tournament when the Barbados round commences today.
By Marlon Munroe A stormy meeting of the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) held yesterday afternoon in the boardroom of the Guyana Cricket Board’s Regent Street office ended with executives deciding on the date for the annual general meeting of the DCB and of the delegates that will represent the various area boards.
Mark’s Jewellery darts team emerged victorious in the four-man team tournament held Friday at Mark’s Darts Club, 72 Brummel Place, Stabroek.
By Kizan Brumell A Jolyon Harry double was the back bone of the Fruta Conquerors victory over Riddim Squad on the opening night of the inaugural BK International Western Tigers Super Eight Knockout Competition at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) Ground on Sunday night.
NEW YORK, CMC – CONCACAF says it will fight for a fourth spot at the FIFA World Cup finals in Brazil, with the organisation contending Sunday that it had merited the increase based on its growth in recent years.
Grantley Culbard on Sunday was unanimously reelected for his fifth consecutive term as president of the Guyana Darts Association at the association’s annual General Meeting at the Malteenoes pavilion.
MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Roger Federer fired up the Australian Open with a blistering start to his title defence yesterday, bringing some welcome warmth to an unseasonably cool Melbourne Park on opening day.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – The revitalized Los Angeles Clippers showed their grit by staging a fourth-quarter comeback to defeat the Los Angeles Lakers 99-92 on Sunday in a testy game that featured four late ejections.
LONDON, (Reuters) – England will go on from their Ashes ‘annihilation’ of Australia to overtake India and South Africa and become the world’s top-ranked test nation within 18 months, according to former captain Alec Stewart.
MUMBAI, (Reuters) – India will gamble on the fitness of Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir and Praveen Kumar after the four injured players were included in the final 15-member squad yesterday for next month’s World Cup.
JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Former South Africa fast bowler Allan Donald has accepted a temporary position as bowling consultant to the New Zealand national team under recently appointed head coach John Wright.
KARACHI, (Reuters) – Day-night test matches moved a step closer to acceptance after cricket’s governing body endorsed a trial first class match in Pakistan held under lights with a coloured ball.
Bridgetown, Barbados – Four bowlers – Royston Crandon, Hamza Riazuddin, Alfonso Thomas and Ravi Rampaul – have taken five wickets apiece in this year’s West Indies Cricket Board’s T20 tournament after the Antigua leg of matches.
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