Sports

Banks DIH Executive Mark Lashley whetted his appetite and signalled a return to form on Saturday by claiming victory in the Stag Beer Mashramani Medal Play Golf tournament sponsored by Ansa McAl Trading Inc.

The Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA) will open its calendar of events with an Inter-Club Swim Meet scheduled from February 11 – 13 at the Castellani Swimming Pool.

Coach of the Police Progressive Youth Club, Linden Wilson,  says that the overall performance of his club at the AAG’s development meet last Sunday was “fairly OK”  and he is pleased with the sprint events.

(Trinidad Guardian) As a matter of priority, newly-installed chairman of the Urban Development Corporation (Udecott) Jearlean John is planning to investigate whether contractors are still liable to repair infrastructural defects in the construction of the TT$1 billion Brian Lara stadium.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Criticism continues to dog  Australia’s selectors in the run-up to the World Cup despite a   comprehensive 6-1 one-day drubbing of England being wrapped up  at the weekend.

POINTE-A-PIERRE, Trinidad, CMC – Kraigg Brathwaite stroked his second first-class hundred to help Barbados earn a draw, after they conceded first innings points to Trinidad & Tobago in the WICB Regional first-class championship yesterday.

SOUTH BEND, Illinois, CMC – Kirani James enhanced his reputation with another impressive performance over 400 metres at the Meyo Invitational last Saturday.

Captain and coach of the national rugby team Theodore Henry has charged his players to expend “every last ounce of energy” in the games they will play in Las Vegas for the International Rugby Board World Sevens Series which bullies off on February 12 at the Sam Boyd Stadium.

It is not every day Guyanese get to see several of their sporting heroes in one place but this soon will change when former boxer turned promoter Seon Bristol pulls off his mega card on April 23 at the Princess Hotel.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – West Indies will enter this year’s World Cup ranked ninth in One-day Internationals.

ABU DHABI,  (Reuters) – International Cricket Council  (ICC) chief executive Haroon Lorgat favours legalisation of  sports gambling in India while retaining his optimism for a  corruption-free World Cup in the sub-continent.

MEERUT, India, (Reuters) – When the world’s batsmen  dazzle crowds at this month’s cricket World Cup, many will use  bats hand-made in India.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Formula One driver Robert Kubica  will be out for at least two months after his horror crash in a  rally and doctors’ predictions he could take a year to recover  are overly cautious, Renault’s team boss said yesterday.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Shane Watson won the Allan  Border Medal as the outstanding Australian cricketer of the  season for the second year in a row yesterday.

KOLKATA, (Reuters) – Angry fans waved banners and  shouted slogans on Monday as an International Cricket Council  (ICC) inspection team assessed whether Eden Gardens could host  three World Cup games after losing a marquee match to Bangalore.

NAIN, Jamaica, CMC – Gifted batsman Marlon Samuels re-launched his career with a monumental, unbeaten double century that put Jamaica in command of their first round match of the Regional First Class Championship against Guyana here yesterday.

Discipline proved to be a crucial factor for Junior Sportsman-of-the-Year, Chavez Ageday when he won the 100 metres boys under-20 race which had five false starts at the Eve Leary ground yesterday.

The Berbice Amateur Basketball Association (BABA) in collaboration with the Region 6 Mashramani Committee will be tipping off a Mashramani Basketball competition today in Berbice.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Twenty-year-old opener Kieran Powell stroked his maiden first class century but it failed to prevent Leeward Islands from an innings defeat at the hands of England Lions here yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Robert Kubica’s Formula One career  hung in the balance yesterday after a high-speed crash in a  minor rally in Italy left the Renault driver fighting to save  the use of his right hand.