Sports

Rain after the luncheon period, a relentless fight from the Rest Team players and a ‘graveyard’ Blairmont Community Centre ground pitch, contributed towards a drawn encounter between the Rest Team and Berbice in the first round of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Four-day tournament yesterday.

Roy Cummings shot a net 66 to take first day’s honours on the opening day of the Digicel Golf Classic  at the Lusignan Golf Course, East Coast Demarara.

Defending champion Ransford Goodluck bounced back into contention when he secured victory on a rain-interrupted second day of the Queensway sponsored National Rifle Shooting championships yesterday at the Timehri Rifle ranges.

Sunburst Camptown’s Devon Ford had a spectacular run against Victoria Kings as he recorded a helmet-trick to help his team into the semi-final round of the Fruta Conquerors organized Namilco Football Festival at the Tucville Playfield on Thursday night.

HYDERABAD, India, (Reuters) – Openers Virender Sehwag  and Gautam Gambhir gave India a flying start after the bowlers  triggered a New Zealand batting collapse on the second day of  the second test yesterday.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Mohammed Hafeez’s half-century  guided Pakistan to 144 for two in reply to South Africa’s first innings 380 on the second day of the first test yesterday.

-But Alonso favoured to take third Formula One title ABU DHABI, (Reuters) – Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel  put himself in the best possible position to claim the Formula  One title by beating his three rivals to pole position in the  Abu Dhabi Grand Prix yesterday.

-Straker steals 400m win from Letitia Myles The official results were yet to come in up to press time last night but unofficially District 10 are the winners of the National Schools, Track and Field Championships which climaxed late last night at the National Stadium at Providence.

—captures Valladares Trophy Fullbore captain Mahendra Persaud yesterday picked up from where he left off at this year’s Commonwealth Games by winning the first two stages of the Queensway-sponsored Guyana National Rifle Shooting Association Fullbore national championships at Timehri Rifle Ranges.

From Marlon Munroe in Blairmont The Rest Team swung the pendulum back their way after a brilliant unbeaten century from opening batsman Shemroy Barrington on the third day of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Four-Day tournament at the Blairmont Community Centre ground yesterday.

-Dowlin, Johnson hit unbeaten tons Essequibo suffered another humiliating defeat in the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Four-day tournament  when they were beaten by an innings and 38 runs inside two days at the Anna Regina Community Centre ground yesterday.

– AND 1 players amaze in warm-up game Promoters of the current All-Star Basketball Weekend, which began yesterday unveiled the uniforms that will be worn by Guyana’s All-Star players and disclosed  the members of Wildfire’s Guyana “All-Star team who  will clash with the AND 1 Streetball team tomorrow night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

GRAPEVINE, Texas, (Reuters) – Manny Pacquiao aims to  enhance his place among boxing’s elite while Antonio Margarito has a chance of redemption when they clash in today’s hotly  anticipated WBC super welterweight bout.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – The Boston Celtics beat the Miami Heat for the second time this season with a 112-107 victory on Thursday led by Ray Allen’s 35 points.

The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA), fresh from its staging of the National Schools TT championships, will stage a competition for ministries, business entities, corporations and organizations this weekend at the National Gymnasium.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC – Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara believes his side has enough to firepower to undermine West Indies, though the hosts will be without spin legend Muttiah Muralitharan who recently retired from Test cricket.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – A senior Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board executive says he expects the three-Test Sri Lanka tour to serve as the real test of new West Indies captain Darren Sammy’s mettle.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Graeme’s Smith’s 22nd test century  set South Africa on their way to a formidable 311 for three at  the close of the first day of the first test against Pakistan at  the Dubai International Cricket Stadium yesterday.

HYDERABAD, India, (Reuters) – Opener Tim McIntosh  scored his second test hundred to build a solid platform for New Zealand in their first innings on the opening day of the second test against India yesterday.

Telecommunications giant, Digicel, in collaboration with the Lusignan Golf Club (LGC) on Wednesday launched the 2010 Digicel Golf Classic which will be held today at the Lusignan Golf Course, East Coast Demerara.