FALMOUTH, Jamaica, CMC – A handy all-round performance from Darren Sammy helped West Indies to a 31-run victory over Ireland in the first of their three Jamaica Cricket Festival Twenty20 matches yesterday.
Keeve Allicock of Harpy Eagle Gym and Nandkumar Singh of Republican fought unbeaten on the opening night of the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) National Novices Championship on Saturday at the National Gymnasium.a
Three batsmen- Jaisindra Sookdeo, Chandi Narine and Jamal Hinckson- registered centuries yesterday as the second round of the Haier Cup second division 40-over tournament continued.
Jermine Sutton hammered home a hat-trick of goals as Georgetown crushed Bartica 7-0 in a Group One match of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Inter Sub-Association Under-17 group playoff phase yesterday at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground.
Mumbai Indians 174 for 5 (Tendulkar 89*, Watson 3-37) beat Rajasthan Royals 137 for 8 (Dole 30, Zaheer 2-17) by 37 runs Sahin Tendulkar shored up Mumbai Indians yet again with his fifth half-century of the IPL which all but guaranteed Mumbai a place in the semi-final and took him to the top of the run-charts in the tournament.
Kings XI Punjab 112 for 3 (Jayawardene 38, Collingwood 2-19) beat Delhi Daredevils 111 (Irfan 3-24, Chawla 2-16) by seven wickets The Feroz Shah Kotla track was back to its Champions League shenanigans, and Kings XI Punjab, having seen Delhi Daredevils fail to read its nature soon enough, kept their heads in what seemed a meagre chase on paper, also keeping alive their remotest of outside chance to make it to the semis.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Merissa Aguilleira hopes to use the unpredictable nature of Twenty20s to spur West Indies Women to an upset victory in the Women’s Twenty20 World Cup next month in the Caribbean.
SUNRISE, Florida, CMC – Unbeaten Andre Berto put the brakes on Carlos Quintana in the eighth round to recapture the World Boxing Council welterweight title on Saturday at the Bank Atlantic Center here.
DENVER, (Reuters) – The San Antonio Spurs turned up the defensive pressure to beat the Denver Nuggets 104-85 on Saturday night, giving them a chance of avoiding the top-seeded Los Angeles Lakers in the first round of the playoffs.
Boxing became the latest sport in Berbice to benefit from the assistance of Guyana’s leading Youth and Sports Club, Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTYSC) when they handed over $300,000 worth of equipment to the Central Boxing Gym.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Manchester United suffered a third major blow in eight days yesterday when a 0-0 draw at Blackburn Rovers damaged their hopes of claiming a fourth consecutive Premier League title.
EL PASO, Texas, CMC – Churandy Martina set a World-leading time, and won the men’s 100 metres at the University of Texas El Paso Invitational on Saturday at Kidd Field.
By Marlon Munroe Every race is just like starting over, says gold-medallist swimmer Jessica Stephenson, even after a win.
-Johnson spearheads wins for GCC Everest Cricket Club’s (ECC) Abilash Deokie smashed the first century of the Georgetown Cricket Assoc-iation Digicel Twenty20 tournament at the Malteenoes Sports Club ground yesterday.
– defeat Victory Valley Royals Kashif and Shanghai Kings are the Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA) under 21 champions after defeating Victory Valley Royals 63-60 in the much anticipated final on Friday at the Mackenzie Sports Club hard court.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Young West Indies all-rounder Lendl Simmons says he is disappointed at being left out of the West Indies senior and A team squads but is determined to fight his way back into the selectors’ frame.
Chelsea Edgill and Jamaal Duff have qualified for the Cadet Championships in the Dominican Republic in September after they copped gold and silver respectively at the Caribbean Pre-cadet table tennis championships in Utuado, Puerto Rico last week.
Leon ‘Hurry Up’ Moore’s quest to capture a world title continues to be put on hold as he slowly recovers from a hand injury he sustained during his recent successful challenge for the WBA Pan Asian Boxing Association (PABA) Super Bantamweight title.
A sequence of events these past few weeks have accentuated, on the one hand, the desperate efforts to unearth new tearaway fast bowlers and, on the other, the absence, in that quest, of the host of West Indians from previous generations who made our cricket as strong and as respected as it was.
AUGUSTA, Georgia, (Reuters) – Phil Mickelson snatched a one-shot lead in yesterday’s third round of the U.S.
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