Sports

It’s the battle of the also rans, the lowly-rated, the cellar dwellers and there might be a host of other similar phrases that can aptly describe today’s game between Guyana and the Windward Islands.

THE West Indies will turn to the ever reliable Shivnarine Chanderpaul in an effort to solve their chronic opening partnership problem in the fourth ODI against New Zealand at Eden Park here tomorrow (tonight east Caribbean time).

The Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) plans to stage six cards this year, president of the association Affeeze Khan has disclosed.

Generally there have been a marked improvement in the performances of national swimmers over the past year.

– Inept batting, faulty catching and error-prone umpiring feature in West Indies’ seven- wicket loss to New Zealand THE West Indies won only two of their 15 ODIs against credible opposition last year.

This year promises to be another busy year for local golf players even as the Lusignan Golf Club (LGC) looks back at a successful 2008 which saw one of the largest fields of players compete in the prestigious Smirnoff-sponsored Guyana Open championships.

Two of Guyana’s senior players for the first two away games Leon Johnson and Narsingh Deonarine, are  feeling no pressure ahead of the upcoming West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) four-day cricket competition which  commences tomorrow.

-GCB boss Singh tells national cricketers President of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Chetram Singh yesterday urged the national cricket team to give of its best in the upcoming West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) regional four day competition and in the process, make the country proud.

President of the Essequibo Cricket Board (ECB) and vice president of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Alvin Johnson has put his ambition of becoming president of the GCB to rest for now.

The Guyana Boxing Board of Control has sent condolences to the Trinidad and Tobago Minister of Sport Gary Hunt as a result of the untimely death of women’s World boxing champion Jizelle Salandy.

Wazim Hasnoo won the Flying Ace Cycle Club (FACC) organized cycle road race, the first of its kind in Berbice for 2009, last Sunday.

It’s regional cricket time once again. That time of the year when Guyanese are often frustrated by the blight of rain.

IT was the tour for the players of the future to establish themselves.

Twenty-one-year-old Shemroy Barrington, the son of the late boxing champion Eric Barrington, is looking to score a century in one of Guyana’s two away matches in the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) regional four-day competition which commences this weekend.

Shock win They had promised before leaving these shores to participate in XX edition of the Punta Del Este International Seven-a-side rugby tournament that they could translate good performances into wins.

President of the Essequibo Cricket Board (ECB) and vice-president of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Alvin Johnson is undecided whether he will contest the presidency of the GCB on January 25.

IT was a finale that put the maxim the right way round for a change.

By Eion Jardine The sport of boxing is filled with fascinating and dramatic human interest stories that reveal the essence of what boxing is all about character, endurance, strength, speed and above all, brains.

– Sarwan, Ramdin see Windies home in thriller By Tony Cozier In CHRISTCHURCH THROUGH a combination of nerveless commonsense and timely inventiveness, two batsmen who could scarcely eek out a run in the preceding Tests carried the West Indies through to a pulsating victory with one ball to spare in the second ODI against New Zealand at the AMI Stadium here last night.

– Manager and trainer happy with team’s fitness level Overnight and early morning rainfall prevented a ball from being bowled on the first day of the three-day practice match organized by the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) between the national team and a Rest XI at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence yesterday.