-Dowlin hits resilient half century Skipper Rawl Lewis (5-39) and fast bowler Nelon Pascal (4-62), blew the Guyana batting to pieces while guiding their team to a 151-run victory in their eighth-round West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Regional four-day match at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence yesterday.
After losing the second of two first-round matches to defending champions Demerara, host Essequibo should be looking to redeem themselves today when they meet Berbice in the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/Castrol-sponsored Inter-County Under-15 tournament at the Anna Regina Community Centre ground today.
Referee Dianne Ferreira-James and Assistant Referee Nykasie Liverpool are in Algarve, Portugal attending a FIFA workshop for women referees.
-says English umpire Richard Kettleworth An English umpire who has officiated in this season’s West Indies’ first-class tournament has placed playing standards “somewhere around the bottom end of the second division of the (English) county championship.”
-squads named for C/bean squash c/ships Following the conclusion of the 2009 Toucan Industries Inc.
The demolition of England’s second innings of the first test of the current Digicel series by the West Indies at Sabina Park revealed a new ruthlessness.
National middleweight boxing champion Howard `Battersea Bomber’ Eastman taught Leon `The Lion’ Gilkes a boxing lesson in their 10-round non-title bout in an otherwise lacklustre 32-round boxing card organized by S and S Promotions and the Guyana Boxing Board of Control last Saturday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
Courts Pacesetters defeated Dyna’s Ravens 72-64 to win the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) first division league title on Saturday at the outdoor Burnham Basketball Court.
Warren “40” McKay continued his impressive run in the saddle after he won the 12th Cheddi Jagan Memorial road race sponsored by BK International yesterday.
The smiles, evident on the faces of the Guyana players at 1pm on Saturday disappeared yesterday as the Windward Islands took control of their eighth-round West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) regional four day match at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence.
(Radio Jamaica) Western Portland is heading for a by-election. This follows Friday’s ruling by the Appeal Court in the dual citizenship case between the People’s National Party’s (PNP’s) West Portland candidate Abe Dabdoub and the sitting Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Member of Parliament (MP) Daryl Vaz.
Oxley Agard was born on May 14, 1906. As a young man growing up he started hanging around boxing gyms, lifting weights and performing strong-man stunts.
Lusignan Cricket Club (LCC) ‘A’ team were crowned the 2008 Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) Hand–in-Hand champions on Saturday after they defeated Mc Gill Superstars by six wickets in the final at the Everest Cricket Club ground.
Defending champions Demerara easily disposed of Essequibo by five wickets in their rain-reduced encounter of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/Castrol sponsored Under-15 Inter-county tournament at the Anna Regina Community Centre ground yesterday.
At Kensington Oval The evidence has been growing for some time and the flaws so starkly exposed at Kensington yesterday provided further proof that Test cricket’s latest technological innovation, the umpires’ referral system, is an experiment that needs urgent review, even scrapping altogether.
– becomes first Guyanese to sign MLS contract Gregory ‘Jackie Chan’ Richardson became the first Guyana to land a contract in the USA’s Major League Soccer (MLS) after landing a deal with the Colorado Rapids on Friday last.
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago’s Soca Warriors badly need a win to boost their FIFA World Cup qualifying hopes but history does not favour a successful outing against the USA in their CONCACAF showdown tonight.
The 2009 Rifle Shooting programme will fire off today with a Record Shoot at the Timehri Rifle Ranges as local shooters prepare to defend the Caribbean Fullbore championships in three months time in Trinidad and Tobago.
Last quarterfinal to be decided tonight The first round of the annual Mayor’s Cup Competition concludes tonight with what promises to be a thrilling double header at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground with the victors advancing to meet each other in the quarterfinals.
Athletes will invade the Police Sports Club ground at Eve Leary today when the Athletics Association of Guyana (AGG) sanctioned third and final Development Meet of 2009 gets underway with a scheduled 10:30am start.
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