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‘ Holy Grail’By Rawle Toney The final of the 19th Kashif and Shanghai football tournament on New Year’s Day which has at stake for the winning team one million dollars and a trophy  will be between Pele and Sunburst Camptown.

First vice president of the Berbice Cricket Board of Control (BCBC) Keith Foster was elected president of the entity on Sunday.

Jets and Royals in winners’ row Amelia’s Ward Jets blew past Patriots 69-43 while Victory Valley Royals made light work of Wismar Pistons 53-47 when the Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA) Pioneer Construction Senior Club championships continued over the weekend at the Mackenzie Sports Club hard-court.

By Tony Cozier In QUEENSTOWN THEY may not dismiss their opponents as a one-man band but New Zealand are paying special attention to West Indies captain Chris Gayle for the forthcoming series of five One-Day Internationals (ODIs).

February 2009 will mark the beginning of the race walking year with the hosting of two races.

Dubbed as the largest teams’ table tennis tournament in the world, the 2008 Joola table tennis championships again provided the opportunity for Guyanese players to showcase their tremendous skill and talent.

Gittens, Barnwell star on opening dayNational all-rounder Christopher Barnwell and his Trophy Stall team-mate Shaheed Gittens starred with the bat for Trophy Stall XI as action in the Dyna’s Embroidery/Carib Super 7 tapeball competition got underway at the National Park tarmac yesterday.

By Tony Cozier In HAMILTON THEIR habitual inability to string together 10 respectable overs, far less 20, led the West Indies to a heavy loss to New Zealand, by 36 runs, in the second of the two 20/20 Internationals at Seddon Park here yesterday.

-GDF coach Marlon Washington is upbeat about his team’s chances against Pele in their Kashif and Shanghai match tonight Coach of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) football team Marlon Washington is upbeat on his team’s chances of reaching its first Kashif and Shanghai football final.

By Rawle Toney Bakewell Topp XX of Linden made light work of last minute replacement team Santos of Georgetown 2-0 while Sunburst Camptown edged Fruta Conquerors 1-0 on Boxing Night at the Mackenzie Sports Club Ground in the Kashif and Shanghai football competition.

The year 2008 was not a successful one for Guyana on the field of play as no silverware was added to the cabinet but off the field, the GCB experienced success, according to president of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Chetram Singh.

The headline in the Weekend Herald here precisely summed up the bizarre result of the 20/20 International at Eden Park in Auckland on Boxing Day.

CLYDE BUTTS may have left New Zealand too early. One of the chief selector’s objectives on his assignment during the early part of the West Indies tour was, in his words, “to observe how the players adapt to various situations in the middle.”

Heavy overnight and early morning rainfall left the Kennard Memorial Turf Club (KMTC) at Bush Lot, Corentyne in an unfit condition for racing forcing the cancellation of the annual Boxing Day meet on Friday.

-Gayle force blows away Kiwis in super over after making a half century the first time around By Tony Cozier In AUCKLANDIT took Chris Gayle’s breathtaking power-hitting in the peculiar circumstances of two separate innings in a one-innings match to save the West Indies from the embarrassment of defeat and several of his players the shame of mindless cricket in the first of two 20/20 Internationals against New Zealand at packed, hot, sunny Eden Park yesterday.

Alpha hammered, Tigers tamedPele hammered Alpha United 3-1 while the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) tamed BK International Western Tigers by a similar margin when the 19th annual Kashif and Shanghai football extravaganza continued on Christmas Day at the Providence National Stadium.

Nicolette Fernandes has won three Caribbean U-19 squash titles, one U-15 squash crown and two U-13 titles.

-needs to shape up or ship outBy Orin Davidson “The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) does not depend on Mr.

Pele versus Alpha, take your pickBy Rawle Toney Today at the National Stadium, Georgetown Football Association’s (GFA) Premier League Champions Alpha “The Hammer” United will clash with Pele in a game that many pundits say is a virtual final of the Kashif and Shanghai (K&S) tournament.

The Berbice Cricket Board of Control (BCBC) earlier this week paid tribute to national under-19 coach and former Guyana first class player Hubern Evans for 35 years of service to Berbice cricket.