Sports

Diamond Secondary for the second consecutive year won the Pre-Mash Inter-Secondary Schools tape-ball cricket competition, defeating Vergenoegen by nine wickets on Saturday at the Durban Park Tarmac.

India’s wicketkeeper-batter Richa Ghosh has moved into the top 20 of the MRF Tyres ICC Women’s T20I Player Rankings for the first time after some good scores in the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2023 while Amelia Kerr of New Zealand and Muneeba Ali of Pakistan are other batters to achieve career-best rankings.

LONDON, CMC – Jamaica sprint darling Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is the only English-speaking Caribbean national nominated for the 2023 Laureus World Sports award.

FRANKFURT, Germany,  (Reuters) – Goals from Victor Osimhen and Giovanni Di Lorenzo gave dominant Napoli a comfortable 2-0 victory at 10-man Eintracht Frankfurt in their Champions League last-16 first leg yesterday.

(Reuters) – England smashed the highest-ever score at a Women’s Twenty20 World Cup before demolishing Pakistan by a record 114 runs in a group stage match yesterday in Cape Town, South Africa.

There was fever pitched excitement, an overflow of fight fans and fistic fury not witnessed locally in years when the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) hosted the Patrick Ford Memorial Boxing Tournament on Sunday at the National Gymnasium. 

The recently-elected Demerara Cricket Board has announced that the 2023 season will get underway shortly with a new Inter-Club 50-overs-a-side knockout tournament for first-division clubs.

The Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) hosted its first Drag Race Meet of the season Sunday at the South Dakota Circuit dubbed Drag Wars 1.0.

Mobile Money Guyana, known widely as MMG, has teamed up with the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) to host the National U-14 Chess Championships.

The Guyana Industrial Minerals (GINMIN) has thrown its support behind the ninth Milo Secondary School Football Championship by donating eight complete kits that will be utilized during the event’s round of 16 stage.

Former West Indies test player Rajendra Chandrika has been named captain of the Select XI which will compete in the Guyana Cricket Board’s Inter-County competition beginning Friday.

(Reuters) – Netherlands’ Femke Bol ran the 400 metres in 49.26 seconds at the Dutch Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn Sunday to break one of the longest-standing world records in track and field.

LONDON, (Reuters) – More than 30 countries, including the United States, Britain and France, yesterday pledged their support for banning Russian and Belarusian athletes from competing in international sporting events, a British government statement said.

Harpy Eagles all-rounder Romario Shepherd has been included in both the One Day International (ODI) and T20 sides announced by the Cricket West Indies selection panel yesterday.

Jayson Tatum never anticipated becoming the record-holder for most points scored in the NBA All-Star Game.

PAARL, South Africa, CMC – West Indies once again survived a dramatic final over before pulling off a three-run victory over Pakistan to keep alive their slender hopes of a semi-final place in the Women’s Twenty20 World Cup here yesterday.

Back Circle and Bent Street will contest the Rocks Auto Trans and Spares Parts ‘Legendary Cup’ Futsal Championship match, following convincing semi-final wins at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue on Saturday evening.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India hammered Australia inside three days for the second time in a fortnight to retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy yesterday and are on the verge of qualifying for the World Test Championship (WTC) final in June.

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) announced yesterday, the return of the senior Inter-County four-day tournament commencing  Friday while naming the Demerara and Essequibo sides.