Sports

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Fidel Edwards could make his comeback to competitive action in the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship.

The AND 1 Streetball team brought the curtain down on Wildfire Entertainment’s All-Star Basketball Weekend Sunday night with their 101-55 annihilation of Wildfire Entertainment’s Guyana All-Star team.

GALLE, Sri Lanka, CMC – A rampaging Chris Gayle uncorked his third Test double century and his highest score on foreign soil, to spearhead a fabulous West Indies batting effort on the opening day of the first Test against Sri Lanka here yesterday.

The Golden Jaguars were not destructive these last few weeks. Rather, they limped along, undernourished while successfully completing the first two phases of its mission.

HYDERABAD, India, (Reuters) – New Zealand’s Brendon  McCullum stood firm with his sixth test hundred yesterday to  leave the second test against India evenly poised.

West Indies under-19 opener Trevon Griffith notched up another first division century for Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) over the weekend while his teammate Totaram Bishun again took over 10 wickets in the Carib Beer Heroes Cup two-day first division cricket competition at the Queenstown ground.

Jeremy Miller and Shelly Daly-Ramdyhan on Sunday defeated Krystal Sukra and Andy Gouveia to win the mixed doubles competition of the Pegasus Open lawn tennis tournament at the hotel’s courts.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – The Phoenix Suns made 22  three-pointers, the second highest in an NBA game, to beat two-time defending champion Los Angeles Lakers 121-116 on Sunday.

Gavin Lewis gained his first boys’ singles 18 years  and under champion title as the Guyana Lawn Tennis Association Pegasus Open continued on Sunday.

Round two wraps up tonight The second round of the recently commenced Guinness Greatest of the Street Futsal competition will wrap up tonight with eight matches at the Culture Centre Tarmac, Mandela Avenue from 6pm.

Flora Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) Spartans hockey club retained their Under-21 women’s title at the fifth Shandy Carib Magnolias Indoor hockey tournament at the Woodbrook Youth Facility, in Trinidad on Saturday.

DUBAI, (Reuters) –  Pakistan face an uphill battle to  save the first test after closing the fourth day on 109 for two  after being set a formidable winning target of 450 by South  Africa yesterday.

Two time national men’s Open chess champion Kriskal Persaud is in the lead after four completed rounds of the National Closed Chess tournament which commenced Saturdaty at the Ocean Spray Hotel.

Roy Cummings might not be as well known a golfer as his father Syd and brothers Bruce and Andre.

The Police Officers Mess “A” team lost 2-3 to the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) on Sunday in their semi final encounter of the 2010 Inter-Organization teams table tennis tournament at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.

GALLE, Sri Lanka,  CMC – One of the concerns West Indies fans had ahead of the tour of Sri Lanka was Chris Gayle’s response to being stripped of the captaincy.

Full-bore captain Mahendra Persaud was yesterday crowned national rifle shooting champion for the second time in three years following the conclusion of the Queensway-sponsored championships yesterday at the Timehri Rifle ranges.

– As Seniors edge Linden in overtime On the heels of claiming the Junior All-Star title, Georgetown’s Senior All-Star team clinched a 78-77 victory in overtime over Linden’s Senior All-Stars to sweep the Linden-Georgetown All-Star games of Wildfire Entertainment’s All-Star Basketball Weekend at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on Saturday night.

-Coach Wayne Dover Despite losing to Trinidad and Tobago’s Soca Warriors in the second stage in the twin island republic recently Guyana’s Golden Jaguars hopes  are  still alive  of  winning the coveted 2010 Digicel Caribbean Football Cup.

Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr. Frank Anthony is expected to meet today with the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) to discuss the absence of national chess champion Wendell Meusa from this year’s National Closed Chess Championships which started on Saturday at the Ocean Spray Hotel.