Sports

– Fitzgerald suffers upset defeat National darts champion, Sudesh Fitzgerald, was welcomed back into the real world with a bump.

Sports administrators over the years had been calling for a multi-purpose stadium in Guyana but those calls had fallen on deaf ears until recently when this country was successful in its bid to host matches in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007.

-Juman-Yassin says Guyana will definitely be there Take Beijing Olympic 100m gold medallists Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser.

– New Zealand win fifth ODI by nine runs to take series 2-1 A TOUR typified by the contrasting magnificence of Chris Gayle and Shivnarine Chanderpaul, the fraility of their inexperienced team-mates, the indiscipline of others and the constant presence of rain came to an apt but unsatisfactory end for the West Indies at McLean Park here yesterday.

Comment THOSE who actually know him well, and others who only profess to know him, seem agreed on one feature of the saga over Kevin Pietersen and the England captaincy.

President of the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) Bishwa Panday says the body has made progress in the areas of competitions and finance.

Former West Indies and Guyana leg-spinning all-rounder Mahendra Nagamootoo has started his stint with Central Sports in Trinidad on a good note.

A number of Guyanese players stood out for their respective clubs in the Carib Sunday League cricket series.

The Cavaliers Sports and Tour Club, who are the main promoters of the sport of race walking, will host two events in observance of the country’s 39th republic anniversary.

Members of the Guyana Amateur Body Building and Fitness Federation (GABBFF) will elect a new executive when that body’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) takes place on  January 25 at Olympic House, Church and Peter Rose Streets, Georgetown .

By Tony Cozier In NAPIER AFTER six weeks and eight matches of varying types, the essential point of the exercise – which team wins overall – has come down to the finale, the fifth ODI at McLean Park here today (overnight east Caribbean).

-wants to see guest players competing at the club level Thirty-five-year-old Sheik Asif Ahmad dethroned long serving president Alvin Johnson by a unanimous decision (14-2), to take over the stewardship of the Essequibo Cricket Board (ECB) when that entity held its Bi-annual General Meeting (BGM) at the Parika Market Council building, yesterday.

– Politician set to be new head of association President of the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association Affeeze Khan will be voted out of office when the association stages its annual general meeting next month.

– Dr. Anthony tells GCF at Awards ceremony The curtain on the 2008 National Chess Championships came down Friday night with a small award ceremony held at Ramphal House, New Garden Street.

-says departing Chinese coach Chang Jian Hua Chinese Table Tennis Coach Chang Jian Hua left Guyana yesterday for his homeland, China upon conclusion of his one year stint, excited about the talent of Guyanese racquet wielders and predicting a bright future internationally for three of the country’s players.

The Guyana Amateur Basket-ball Association (GABA) plans to introduce a premier league competition this year.

ANOTHER New Zealand batsman took advantage of the West Indies’ unintentional, but seemingly unavoidable, generosity to help himself to a hundred in his first international match yesterday.

More teams are likely to compete in the 20th anniversary of the Kashif and Shanghai football tournament later this year even as the organizers fine tune plans for a junior version of the tournament bringing together secondary schools from around the country by mid year.

President of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Colin Klass says that the local body will be enforcing several of FIFA’s standards into the  game including doping control and he called on local officials to unite for the good of the sport.

A SUPPORT staff of manager, head coach, assistant coach, trainer, strength conditioner, physiotherapist and analyst is now attached to the West Indies team.