Sports

Taffin Khan played undefeated to capture the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) organized Apex Insurance Rapid Chess Tournament which concluded over the weekend at the Keishar’s Sports Club.

FRANKFURT, (Reuters) – Vladimir Klitschko said it was  time David Haye committed to a fight with the Ukrainian, telling  the Briton he “owes it to the fans”.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka countered a pitch  assisting seam and spin to reach a solid 293 for four on the  first day of the third and final test against India yesterday.

(BBC) Sachin Tendulkar had little chance to make an impact on day one of the third Test against Sri Lanka as he became the most capped player in Test history yesterday.

LEICESTER, England, CMC – Former West Indies seamer Corey Collymore snatched an eight-wicket match haul to help fire Sussex to an enterprising innings victory over Leicestershire inside three days last weekend.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England all-rounder Andrew  Flintoff suffered yet another injury setback yesterday when,  days before he was due to return from a year on the sidelines,  he was ruled out of action for the rest of the season.

-say Sarwan, Seeram, Moore By Tamica Garnett Team Captain, Ramnaresh Sarwan and coach, Ravindranauth Seeram are of the opinion that Guyana’s win at the just-concluded West Indies Cricket Board’s (WICB) Twenty20 Caribbean Championship will play a vital role in emphasising the rise of the state of cricket in Guyana.

– passes FIFA football agent exam Young Guyanese football enthusiast Faizal Khan earlier this year created history by becoming the first person from the Caribbean to secure a pass in the Federation International de Football Association (FIFA) football agents’ examination.

Junior Niles rode away with the Open category of the sixth annual Regan Rodrigues Memorial cycle road race on Sunday at West Demerara.

By Tamica Garnett The Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA) will send its largest contingent ever to an overseas event after naming 22 participants to attend the Goodwill Games in Suriname from August 13-15.

– GABA league to continue outdoors By Floyd Christie The fork has been dug into the soil and work has commenced on the first phase of the long-awaited Burnham Court rehabilitation project.

(Reprinted from World Soccer) The future success of Guyana’s national footballteam may depend on players plying their trade in England When Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago qualified for the World Cup finals in 1998 and 2006 respectively, a new bar was set for Caribbean football; particularly for English-speaking countries such as Guyana, who envisaged emulating those two teams.

Sportscope: Our opinion Recently there has been a reasonable amount of success by sports teams and sportsmen and women representing the Golden Arrowhead.

Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara has claimed the top spot of the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for Test batsmen from India’s Virender Sehwag.

NOTTINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – Paceman James  Anderson, who won the first test for England with match figures  of 11-71 against Pakistan, believes he can be just as effective in the Ashes series in Australia when the ball is not swinging.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England named an unchanged 12-man squad yesterday for the second test against Pakistan following their emphatic 354-run victory in the series opener that concluded on Sunday.

BUDAPEST,  (Reuters) – Michael Schumacher apologised to  Rubens Barrichello yesterday after almost driving his former  Ferrari team mate into a concrete wall in a 300kph duel at the  Hungarian Grand Prix.

– says national TT player Christopher Franklyn National table tennis player Christopher Franklyn said yesterday that the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) needs to restructure its programmes if its players were to compete and win medals at events such as the Central American and Caribbean Games.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Jonathan Foo played the innings of a lifetime to trump memorable bowling from Ashley Nurse, as Guyana were crowned inaugural champions of the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship, following a one-wicket victory over Guyana in the Grand Final on Saturday.

By Donald Duff Congratulation are in order for the Guyana Squash Association (GSA) whose junior national team once again dominated the annual Caribbean junior championships which ended recently in the Cayman Islands.