Absconding boxers marred GABA’s year
If there was any bad publicity coming out the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA), the actions of the three absconding boxers paled all into insignificance.
If there was any bad publicity coming out the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA), the actions of the three absconding boxers paled all into insignificance.
A number of overseas-based athletes are excited about the commencement of works on the synthetic track and have indicated their eagerness to come home to compete at local meets.
NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – A stroke-filled 88 from Andre Fletcher set Windward Islands up for a 28-run victory in the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship against the Combined Campuses & Colleges yesterday.
MUMBAI, India, CMC – Stafanie Taylor followed-up a penetrative spell from Anisa Mohammed with a purposeful half-century to lead West Indies Women to a historic nine-wicket victory over India Women in their first One-day International yesterday.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – The Los Angeles Lakers shut down the high-energy New York Knicks to power to their fourth straight victory in a 109-87 triumph on Sunday.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – A place, which was like a second home to Joey Carew, will provide the backdrop for his funeral service on Friday.
The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) has expressed grief over the passing of former West Indies cricketer, Joey Carew.
DOHA, (Reuters) – The three Pakistan cricketers at the centre of a corruption scandal are expected to learn their fate today when an independent hearing concludes in Doha.
NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – An arena that bears the name of a batsman that terrorised bowlers all around the World during his playing days appropriately provides the backdrop, as the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship opens today.
DURBAN, (Reuters) – Rohit Sharma blazed a half-century as India cantered to a 21-run win over South Africa in a one-off Twenty20 international at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban yesterday.
HAMILTON, New Zealand, (Reuters) – Pakistan completed a thumping 10-wicket victory in the first test over New Zealand inside three days after they had bowled the hosts out for just 110 in their second innings after the tea break yesterday.
MUMBAI, India, CMC – West Indies Women will be looking to make history, when their five-match One-day International series against India Women opens today at the Bandra Kurla Complex.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A half-century from Dwayne Smith failed to inspire Barbados, and they suffered another setback in their preparation for the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship, when English county Hampshire prevailed in a nail-biting, three-wicket victory on Saturday.
The sport of chess made a couple of tentative steps forward in 2010 with the formation of a regional committee, the hosting of a Federation Internationale des Echecs (FIDE) rated tournament and the staging of the national senior and junior championships among the positives.
National rugby Sevens director, Mike McCormack disclosed yesterday that the national rugby Sevens squad did not accomplish its goal, nor the goals of the teams coach, Theodore Henry at last Saturday’s trial games at the National Park.
‘Mr.Knowledge’ is no more. Saturday night, Trinidad and Tobago and the West Indies lost one the greatest servants of cricket in the region, then Michael ‘Joey’ Carew passed on at the age of 73, at his home at Warren Street Woodbrook, Port-of-Spain.
BANGALORE, India, CMC – Recovering West Indies fast bowler Jerome Taylor has quite remarkably been able to snag an Indian Premier League deal.
SYDNEY, CMC – Chris Gayle served notice on Indian Premier League bidders, when he set a new Twenty20 Big Bash record in a dashing half-century that helped to set-up a 19-run victory for Western Australia against New South Wales yesterday.
The mettle of the Guyanese players will undergo a series of tests over the next couple of weeks as the second Caribbean Twenty20 tournament bowls off tomorrow in Antigua.
BANGALORE, India, CMC – Chris Gayle will be hoping that he attracts Indian Premier League (IPL) bidders today, after he remained unsold at the players’ auction for the fourth edition of the competition yesterday.
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