COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC – Sri Lanka Cricket’s chairman of selectors Aravinda de Silva says the postponed One-Day International series against West Indies was a big blow to the selection process ahead of next year’s World Cup in Asia.
PERTH, (Reuters) – Recalled opener Phil Hughes has promised Australia the kind of brisk starts which Virender Sehwag so frequently provides for India.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Rain has forced the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board to delay naming their squad for next month’s Caribbean Twenty20 Championship.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Mitchell Johnson is hoping his perspiration in the nets will provide inspiration to Australia’s selectors and earn him a recall for the third Ashes test against England in Perth this week.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – A West Indies Cricket Board director says he has no qualms with the decision by Dwayne Bravo and Kieron Pollard to opt out of the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship in favour of Australia’s lucrative Big Bash.
The annual Kashif and Shanghai football tournament opened Sunday evening with the usual pomp and splendour as two of Guyana’s leading footballers, former national captain Charles “Lilly” Pollard and striker Collie “Hitman” Hercules were honoured for their contribution to the sport locally at the ceremony.
President of the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA), Henry Greene emphatically declared Sunday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall that “table tennis is back” in Guyana.
Wayne Dover, Coach of the Guyana All Stars team which defeated Atletico Roraima Sunday night as the annual Kashif and Shanghai football extravaganza got underway is of the opinion that the side performed “creditably.”
Berbice’s Neil Reece took top honours in the open and junior categories of the Phillip Arokium Memorial 40-mile cycle road race which ended at New Amsterdam, Berbice on Sunday.
The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) will be collaborating with the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport (MCYS) to throw up an official table tennis facility at the Racquet Centre being built at Camp Street and Woolford Avenue.
Rice Quality Consultant from Argentina, Pierre Boucher, played unbeaten to accumulate 6.5 points to emerge the winner of the RRT-sponsored one–day rapid chess tournament at the KEI-SHAR’S Sports Club last Saturday.
The Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) has earmarked female racquet wielder Trenace Lowe to participate in the 2012 Olympic Games in London and beyond.
The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport is scheduled to sign off the contract for the synthetic track and construction work is expected to begin at Leonora on the West Coast of Demerara before yearend.
The St. Rose’s High School recently received a quantity of sports equipment from Giftland Office Max which is expected to boost the school’s Physical Education programme.
Dale Hing emerged as the top gun at last Sunday’s Spads Incorporated yearend small-bore shooting championships held at the Timehri ranges.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – England could go through the entire tour of Australia unbeaten according to wicketkeeper Matt Prior, who scored a century to help the tourists grind out a draw against state side Victoria over the weekend.
Marathon Man created a major upset in winning the feature B class event when the Port Mourant Turf Club staged its pre-Christmas horse race meet at the club’s track on Sunday at Port Mourant, Corentyne, Berbice.
ST JOHN’S Antigua, CMC – World record holder Deandra Dottin and the highly rated Stafanie Taylor were among six women’s players awarded central retainer contracts by the West Indies Cricket Board yesterday.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Fast bowler Carlos Brathwaite is the lone newcomer in a Barbados 14-man squad announced Monday to contest next month’s Caribbean Twenty20 Championship.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Dominican Billy Doctrove was among 18 umpires named Sunday to stand in next year’s Cricket World Cup in Asia.
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