ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Just weeks after being dumped as vice-captain for the one-day series in Australia, Denesh Ramdin has been named to lead West Indies in the one-off Twenty20 International against Zimbabwe on Sunday.
SYDNEY, Australia, CMC – Chris Gayle is hoping his inexperienced squad learnt the harsh lessons dictated to them by Australia after the reigning World Cup holders clobbered his hapless West Indies in a lopsided eight-wicket win with 50 balls to spare yesterday.
SYDNEY, Australia, CMC – West Indies’ miserable Australian summer ended in further gloom on yesterday, when they plunged to an embarrassing eight-wicket loss in the second and final Twenty20 International at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
Lalit Modi has insisted that the IPL will not be moved out of India, despite security concerns raised in an independent report commissioned by the players’ unions in England, Australia and South Africa that led to talk of shifting the event to another country.
DUBAI, (Reuters) – Russian fourth seed Nikolay Davydenko overcame a surprise first-set loss to beat France’s Florent Serra 6-7 6-4 6-1 yesterday in an error-strewn first-round battle at the Dubai tennis championships.
Rahul Dravid has called on India to follow a set domestic calendar within which they would play their annual quota of home international games to secure the future of Test cricket.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Two Wayne Rooney headers led Manchester United to a 3-0 win over West Ham United at Old Trafford yesterday, taking the champions within a point of Chelsea at the top of the Premier League.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago will have to do without the talented, youthful duo of Adrian Barath and Darren Bravo for their final round WICB regional first class clash against Jamaica in Grenada this weekend.
(BBC) Australia fast bowler Brett Lee has announced his retirement from Test cricket with immediate effect.
CHICAGO, (Reuters) – A firm owned by Chinese-born U.S. financier Kenny Huang and by China’s Adrian Cheng, a member of one of the world’s richest families, said yesterday it has signed a long-term agreement to run China’s National Basketball League.
PHILADELPHIA, (Reuters) – Former professional basketball star Jayson Williams was sentenced yesterday to five years in prison for the shooting death of a limousine driver in 2002, prosecutors said.
SALT LAKE CITY, (Reuters) – Atlanta’s Joe Johnson produced a big-time performance in the fourth quarter to steer the Hawks to a 105-100 win over the injury-hit Jazz yesterday, their first victory in Utah since 1993.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – New Washington Wizards guard/forward Josh Howard will miss the rest of the season because of a torn cruciate ligament in his left knee, the team said on their website (www.nba.com/wizards)
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbadian Central American and Caribbean (CAC) bodybuilding overall champion Martinus Durrant has been hit with a two-year ban for using performance-enhancing drugs.
BROOKLYN, New York, CMC – Guyana’s former world boxing champion Vivian Harris is enraged over his loss to Argentina’s Lucas Martin Matthysse Saturday night and has described the referee’s decision to halt the contest as the “worst injustice” he has ever experienced.
COUVA, Trinidad, CMC – Shivnarine Chanderpaul walked Guyana to its first win for the season in the WICB regional first-class championship against Leeward Islands yesterday.
By Rawle Toney A new look Alpha United football team tactically defeated BK International Western Tigers in the feature game of Sunday evening’s Haiti benefit match at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground organised by the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) and the Kashif and Shanghai Organisation.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Zimbabwe will touch down in the Caribbean this evening for their one-day series against West Indies.
Mark Lashley had a lot to celebrate when he won the Charlise Adams Mashramani Stableford Golf tournament Sunday at the Lusignan Golf Club, East Coast Demerara.
By Marlon Munroe Guyana’s chances of retaining their Inter-Guiana Games (IGG) Track & Field title may be in jeopardy after it was found that some of the nation’s top junior athletes are not affiliated to any institution of learning, one of the main criteria for selection for a junior championship.
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