Sports

Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports Dr Frank Anthony wants the National Sports Policy to be approved in parliament by September.

-Seeram Eight matches, five losses, two draws and one abandoned. This is the script for host Guyana who are in sixth position on 20 points and will be facing the fifth place Leeward Islands with 43 points in a 10th round clash of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) sponsored Regional four-day competition at the Albion Sports Complex from today.

The Guyana Cricket Board selectors yesterday named 30 players who will be involved in trial matches in order to select the Guyana team to compete in this year’s regional Under-15 tournament.

Host club Netrockers and Amelia’s Ward United registered victories when the Netrockers Football Club Town Week Under-19 football tournament got underway at the Bayroc Community Centre Tuesday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Embattled West Indies fast bowler Daren Powell will play his first WICB Regional four-day match of the season as Jamaica seek to further thwart Barbados’ title hopes when they meet at Kensington Oval today.

-Team selected but waiting on ratification Shamain Campbell’s XI won the final Under-19 trial match organized by the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB), when they defeated Marina Bridgemohan’s XI by 25 runs at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) ground on Wednesday.

MHS and LTI to clash in basketball final today The Mckenzie High School (MHS) and the Linden Technical Institute (LTI) will go head-to-head today at the Mckenzie Sports Club hardcourt in the final of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports-sponsored schools’ basketball tournament.

Final preliminary round action takes place today The seventh and final round of action in the Demerara zone of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/ Gafoors-sponsored first division 2020 cricket competition will take place today at various venues from 14:00hrs.

By Gary Tim with additional reporting from Rawle Toney They won all the short sprints at the Beijing Olympics last August and the resulting track and field euphoria was evident in their everyday gait afterwards.

SYDNEY, Australia, CMC – Guyana’s Gairy St Clair was no match for Lenny Zappavigna last night and the Australian dominated the ex-world champion to easily retain his International Boxing Federation (IBF) Pan Pacific light welterweight title.

… Guyanese soccer star signs MLS deal, creates history By Gary H.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Denesh Ramdin is set to captain West Indies for the first time and his Trinidadian colleague Dwayne Bravo is poised to return to international cricket in the one-off Digicel Twenty20 against England this weekend.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Fast bowling legends Michael Holding and Colin Croft believe West Indies still have a long way to go before they can safely say they have “turned the corner”.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) president Julian Hunte believes the Caribbean side’s fighting series win over England is a huge boost to the side’s bid to improve their status in international cricket.

By Sonia Rodney After watching the 1953 movie ‘The Harlem Globetrotters’, a basketball craze hit the colony of British Guiana.

-Third annual NLE basketball extravaganza It was an all Georgetown affair on the third night of action of the third annual Next Level Entertainment (NLE) basketball extravaganza continued at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) Tuesday night as Beepat Scorpions and Nets turned back the challenges of Patriots and Alleyne’s Retrieve Raiders respectively.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Fast bowler Daren Powell and in-form batsman Brendan Nash are in Jamaica’s squad to face Barbados in this weekend’s WICB Regional Four-day championship in Barbados.

National ladies champion Christine Sukhram warmed up for the Suriname Open golf championship with victory in the Guyana Lottery Company sponsored Medal Play tournament Tuesday (You-Man-Nabi Day) at the Lusignan Golf Course.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Chris Gayle believes West Indies’ victory in the five-Test series against England was the culmination of determined effort from his side to lift their standard of play.

By Rawle Toney The deadline for the “letter of commitment” to be sent to the Caribbean Basketball Confederation which indictes Guyana’s willingness to meet the requirements to host this year’s Caricom basketball championships has passed.