LONDON, England, CMC – West Indies captain Chris Gayle, mindful of his team’s woeful form against England on their current trip, is anxious to lift his side to a crucial win against the home team in their ICC Twenty20 match today.
Four young ladies will head to the Turks and Caicos Islands to join an overseas group of players to represent Guyana at an invitational Under-20 four-nation tournament from tomorrow.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Hosting the soccer World Cup finals in 2018 or 2022 could contribute more than A$5 billion ($4.07 billion) to the country’s economy, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said yesterday.
NEW SOUTH WALES, Australia, CMC – Guyana’s former International Boxing Federation (IBF) super featherweight champion Gairy St Clair has announced his retirement from the sport.
HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – Batsman David Hemp wants to continue playing for Bermuda but has ruled himself out of the race to replace Gus Logie as Bermuda’s next national in favour of a long-term teaching job at Solihull School in England.
LONDON, England, CMC – Former captain Mahela Jayawardene smashed an attacking 78 and helped Sri Lanka fend off a brave bid by Ireland to win their ICC World Twenty20 Champ-ionship Super Eight match by nine runs yesterday.
LONDON, England, CMC – England eliminated defending champions India with a three- run victory in their ICC World Twenty20 Championship Super Eight yesterday to set up a showdown with West Indies today.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Teenaged batting sensation Kraigg Brathwaite tuned up for this summer’s TCL West Indies Under-19 tournament by stroking his maiden Barbados Division One hundred on Saturday.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Amir Khan’s first crack at a world title could be postponed because Ukrainian WBA world light-welterweight champion Andreas Kotelnik has a tooth infection, Khan’s promoters said.
– But Windies Women beaten by AustraliaTAUNTON, England, CMC – West Indies Women got a rapid record-breaking half century from teenager Deandra Dottin but crashed to an eight-wicket defeat by Australia yesterday in their ICC Women’s World Twenty20 Championship match.
LONDON, CMC – Chris Gayle admitted that fatigue may have played a part, but he felt that West Indies’ batting is what let them down in their 20-run defeat in the Twenty20 World Cup against South Africa on Saturday.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Puerto Rico’s Miguel Cotto retained his World Boxing Organization welterweight title with a gruelling split decision win over Joshua Clottey of Ghana at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night.
Munroe puzzled, saddened by non-selection One of Guyana’s top female sprinters believes that she should have been named on the Guyana athletics team to the inaugural Caribbean Games scheduled for next month in Trinidad and Tobago.
– but Parnell’s top 10 bowling performance see S/Africa home LONDON, June CMC – Lendl Simmons belted 77 from 50 balls, but one of the Top-10 bowling performances in Twenty20 Internationals from Wayne Parnell undermined West Indies, and helped South Africa fashion a 20-run victory in the Twenty20 World Cup yesterday.
It has taken the simultaneous, belated arrival of summer and of Dwayne Bravo and the change to the game’s shortest, newest and most popular format to shake the West Indies out of the embarrassing lethargy that previously typified their cricket in the two Tests and two ODIs in which they were thrashed by England.
Republic Bank Guyana Ltd has once again teamed up with the Berbice Cricket Board of Control (BCBC) to host this year’s Berbice inter-zone under-17 cricket tournament.
LONDON, CMC – Umar Gul finished with the best figures in a Twenty20 International to set Pakistan up for a six-wicket victory over New Zealand in the Twenty20 World Cup yesterday.
GDF slams four past hapless Flamingo – Pele, Tigers rumble to stalemate The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) recorded yet another Premier League victory while the first draw of the competition was confirmed in another match when the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Cellink Plus sponsored tournament recommenced on Friday at the Tucville Playfield.
The Floodlights A and B team will head to Unity Village, Mahaica today to play two softball matches to raise funds for the Unity Sports Club.
LONDON, CMC – Chris Gayle will put off for as long as he can going under the surgeon’s knife to fix a problematic ankle injury, as well as any other aches and pains that have plagued him in recent months.
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