Former national under-19 and Berbice senior cricketer Neil Williams was named the most productive and dedicated player last Wednesday in the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTYSC) 20-year history.
The East Coast Demerara Jaguars defeated the Georgetown Pitbulls by five wickets at the Guyana National Stadium Sunday night in the supporting game of the Guyana/ Trinidad and Tobago encounter.
KARACHI, (Reuters) – Protesters in the eastern city of Lahore slapped donkeys with shoes and pelted them with rotten tomatoes yesterday to vent their anger at the latest Pakistani cricket fixing scandal.
Guyana’s leading women’s assistant referee Nykasie Liverpool left Guyana yesterday to officiate in the FIFA Under-17 World Cup in neighbouring Trinidad and Tobago.
Cyclists in the 34th annual ‘Teach Them Young’ coaching programme will once again be putting their newly-acquired skills to the test at a race meet on Saturday around the inner circle of the National Park.
(Cricinfo) Investigators will focus on the currency notes handed over by the News Of The World (NOTW) to Mazhar Majeed as they look for evidence of spot fixing in the Lord’s Test involving Pakistani cricketers.
—Guyana’s Twenty20 cricket teamturns in fine all round display to defeat Trinidad by 49 runs in the second and final encounter
By Marlon Munroe
It was an all-round display that inspired hope that the Guyana team is ready for the Airtel Champions League T20 tournament in South Africa next month.
—National coach Bobby Cadogan says local basketball players need to work on their fundamentals
By Floyd Christie
Coach of the President’s XII basketball team Robert ‘Bobby’ Cadogan said yesterday he was dissatisfied with the performance of the team which crashed to a 0-3 defeat against the Washington-based DC Jammers team recently.
Young Achievers volleyball team finished on top of the points table as the preliminary rounds of the True Champions Volleyball Tournament (TCVT) concluded Saturday at the GuySuCo Training Centre, Port Mourant, Berbice.
The weather was perfect, the scores were excellent with five players ending on net scores of 68 but in the end, William Walker clinched the winner’s prize at King’s Jewellery World Medal Play golf tournament last Saturday at the Lusignan Golf Course, East Coast Demerara.
—Corruption allegations overshadow game
LONDON, (Reuters) – England completed a crushing innings and 225 run victory over Pakistan in the fourth and final test at Lord’s yesterday on a morning overshadowed by corruption allegations.
KARACHI, (Reuters) – Pakistan’s former cricket captain Imran Khan called for exemplary punishment to be given to any player found guilty of spot fixing during the tour of England.
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC – Akil Greenidge hit the top score of 83, and his captain Lee Gaskin was unbeaten on 82 to put Barbados on the road to claiming the St.
ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – A weakened German team, missing their talismanic NBA forward Dirk Nowitzki, produced the shock of the world championship yesterday with an 82-81 win over Serbia after two overtime periods.
SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium, (Reuters) – McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton won a chaotic and thrilling Belgian Grand Prix to seize back the Formula One championship lead from Red Bull’s Mark Webber yesterday.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Fernando Torres scored his first goal in 10 games when he volleyed the winner as Liverpool kick-started their Premier League campaign with a 1-0 win over West Bromwich Albion at Anfield yesterday.
By Marlon Munroe
Guyana lost by nine runs to Trinidad & Tobago last evening at the Guyana National Stadium in their first warm up match before the Airtel Champions League T20 Championships in South Africa next month.
By Marlon Munroe
In a match-up of unequal proportions in the feature event of the seventh Pro-Am card Mandessa Moses fought to a unanimous decision over Sharon ‘Stone’ Warde at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) on Friday night.
By Marlon Munroe
Their big name players played for the national side last night yet the Berbice Titans skittled out the New Line Cavaliers for a meagre 79 runs at the Guyana National Stadium last evening.