Sports

Compliments of GT&T, P&P Insurance Brokers, Camille’s Enterprise, RHTY&SC, Trophy Stall Bourda Market and Lifetime Real Estate It was all Brian Lara at the Queen’s Park Oval yesterday as Trinidad and Tobago, replying to Guyana’s 334 all out, reached 273-3 at the close of the second day’s play of their Carib Beer Series first round encounter.

The Digicel-sponsored regional football development clinics was launched yesterday in Guyana amidst concerns raised by International Football Federation (FIFA) vice-president, Austin `Jack’ Warner, about the lack of a proper venue.

Dwayne Bravo’s spell of exceptional stamina and high class seam bowling, of the sort that earned Courtney Walsh and Glenn McGrath more than 500 Test wickets, inspired a spirited West Indies fight as the second Test continued to ebb and flow on the second day yesterday.

The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) in collaboration with the National Sports Commission (NSC) will stage an Open handicap tournament this week-end at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

If you are a budding lawn tennis player in Guyana and you dream constantly of playing against the Roger Federers and Justine Henins of the world then bring your `A’ game to Le Meridien, Pegasus Hotel courts on Sunday.

Revenge is sweet and Alpha United relished a 1-0 victory over Bakewell Topp XX in the 18th Kashif and Shanghai Football final on New Year’s night at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground in Linden.

Two wickets in quick succession at three critical periods of the opening day of the second Test here yesterday undermined stout West Indies resistance to the anticipated South African response to their shock defeat in the first in Port Elizabeth last week.

The national cricketers will begin their quest for regional supremacy in the Carib Beer cricket competition with a tough first round match against Trinidad and Tobago at the Queen’s Park Oval tomorrow.

President of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG), Claude Blackmore, says his association had little production during last year and points a finger at the National Sports Commission (NSC) for created a rift between the two bodies.

It is always easy to look around the world and see the bad news.

South Africa’s coach Mickey Arthur says “there is no panic” but the West Indies may read the selectors’ late call-up of Neil McKenzie for the second Test, starting in Cape Town tomorrow, differently.

Linden’s Top XX will be looking for their sixth title when they clash with Alpha United, Georgetown’s premiere league champions in the 18th Kashif and Shanghai football final this evening at the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) ground in Linden.

Along with the maxim attached to even sporting surprises that God works in mysterious ways, his wonders to perform or the more mundane that cricket in a funny game, there were clearly other, more realistic factors involved in the rare and remarkable West Indies’ victory over South Africa here on Saturday.

National racquet-wielder Trenace Lowe has twin goals for the new year.

The die has been cast and the stage set for the grand finale as the 18th Annual Kashif and Shanghai football tournament climaxes tonight.

Though his name may not sound intimidating, Claudius Butts’ mere presence on the rugby field has been known to send a shiver down the spines of many a rugby football coach and their players throughout the region.

Given their infamous record, complacency is not a problem that has concerned West Indies captains of late.

Once again, the football fraternity in Guyana is in a state of sadness following the tragic passing of Western Tigers’ footballer Sheldon ‘Popeye Jones’ Levi who, along with his wife, died on the spot following an accident yesterday morning.

A long catalogue of humiliation and dismal memories for the West Indies in South Africa were finally and emphatically expunged at St.

Pele Football Club and Alpha United reached the semi-finals of the 18th annual Kashif and Shanghai football tournament with convincing wins over Amelia’s Ward United and Western Tigers respectively Friday night at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground.