Sports

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – National captain Daren Ganga has landed a top post in the Sport Company of Trinidad and Tobago.This

Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) captured three divisions and Hikers one as the Mr.

Organiser of this week-end’s De Gold Striders Games Derill Gittens said yesterday that prize money for the Under-17 events will go to the clubs and not the athletes.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Pacer Ravi Rampaul is eyeing his first Test on home soil when West Indies face South Africa at the Queen’s Park Oval later this week.

Taffin Khan played undefeated in his first three games of the Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) Topco Juice Chess tournament to acquire the lead in the event which commenced over the weekend.

By this week-end players participating in the annual National Sports Commission Independence anniversary table tennis tournament should be playing with the spanking-new Stag tables.

By Floyd Christie Mohamed Enterprise has once again showed its commitment to the annual Inter-Market Knockout Football Tournament making the first contribution to this year’s tournament which is scheduled to run from August 7-28 at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

While the  Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPF) has short-listed 11 strongmen to participate in two upcoming international championships to be held in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico from August 3-7 the final composition of the team will depend on who are successful at acquiring United States of America visas.

Members of the Lusignan Golf Club will meet on Saturday to elect a new executive committee to run the affairs of the Club for 2010-2011.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Head coach Ottis Gibson said Tuesday his battered West Indies were trying earnestly to put the nightmarish one-day series behind them as they prepared for the three-Test series against South Africa starting here tomorrow.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies Cricket Board chief executive Ernest Hilaire has hailed the start of the High Performance Centre as critical to the reversal of the fortunes of West Indies cricket.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Portugal winger Danny took  full advantage of the opportunity presented by an injury to Nani  yesterday with a goal and an assist in his team’s 3-0 win over  Mozambique in their final friendly before the World Cup.

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – International umpire Billy Doctrove says the inadequate amount of cricket currently being played in the region is having a negative impact on the advancement of regional umpires.

MURCIA, Spain, (Reuters) – Striker Fernando Torres  returned from injury as a substitute and scored for Spain in a  6-0 rout of Poland, their final World Cup warm-up match yesterday.

Two Guyanese women cricketers were in excellent form over the weekend in the United States at the USA Cricket National Women’s tournament in California.

The East Coast Cricket Board (ECCB) has named a 21-man squad to prepare for the upcoming Digicel Twenty20 cricket tournament on Friday.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Rookie West Indies pacer Kemar Roach is a big doubt for the first Test against South Africa starting tomorrow at the Queen’s Park Oval.

The 10th annual P&P Insurance Brothers, Consultancy and Travel Agency cycling programme,  organized by National Cycle Coach Hassan Mohamed pedals off Saturday at the National Park Circuit.

Cricket might be the national game but when it comes to World Cup football the National Communications Network (NCN) will be giving the latter top priority.

-Holland to promote fight Shondell ‘Mystery Lady’ Alfred will get a chance to win another world title in a different weight class in September or October this year against Ava ‘Lady of Boxing’ Knight.