Sports

Unconvincing statistics have been disregarded in favour of experience and longevity preferred to potential in the changes to West Indies team from the five ODIs in Zimbabwe to the subsequent tough series of three Tests in South Africa.

Eulanie Ousley of the Berbice Campus of the University of Guyana, was voted the best graduating student at the ninth annual Sports Administrators Course organized by the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) which was held from November 23-25 for the first time in Berbice.

Minister of Health Dr. Leslie Ramsammy has challenged the Rotary Club of Georgetown to make their annual Day of Sports for the Physically Challenged a national event, and committed government’s support to the organization in that regard.

Ezone Internet Shopping and Delivery Service has consented to sponsor the Fatima Hockey Club of Trinidad and Tobago who are currently participating in the Guyana Hockey Board Diamond Mineral Water-sponsored tournament underway at the Cliff Anderson Sports hall.

“Twenty four runs in one ball. Jujubi (too easy),” screams a look-alike of Tamil actor Rajinikanth from a poster outside the Tau Devi Lal Stadium in Panchkula.

The stage has been set for the commencement of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport inaugural five-stage cycle road race which promises to be one of the biggest cycle road races in Guyana.

The Rose Hall Town Windies Sports Bar cricket club was yesterday the recipient of two cheques totalling $230,000 from David Burgess, proprietor of Windies Sports Bar.

The Kashif and Shanghai football tournament yesterday received one of its major prizes for its year-end football extravaganza when Faizal Khan of Temptation Promotions Ltd.

Most of the foreign players have arrived and the stage is set for the fourth annual Diamond Mineral Water Indoor Hockey Festival which gets cracking this afternoon with four matches at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Enterprise Sports Club (ESC) humbled Lusignan Sports Club (LSC) when the two arch-rivals clashed at the Enterprise Community Centre ground on Sunday.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) yesterday made a sizeable donation to the West Indies Rugby Union (WIRU) to jump start preparation for the 2008 Rugby World Series in San Diego, California USA.

A stellar performance by Sultan Safdar powered Enterprise Sports Club (ESC) to a crushing win over North Soesdyke in the semi-final of the Hand-in-Hand first-division limited-overs cricket competition on Saturday.

Guyana’s hockey teams will be looking to change their fortunes at this year’s Diamond Mineral Water (DMW) Hockey Festival which opens tomorrow evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

A 14-man squad has been named to represent Guyana in the Twenty/20 cricket match against the visiting Daren Ganga led Trinidad and Tobago side at the National Stadium, Providence, on Sunday.

Eight sub-associations of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) will battle for supremacy in the Pepsi Cup Under-17 football championship billed to kick off on December 8 with four matches at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground.

The fourth round of matches in the Berbice Cricket Board Isaac Bissoon three-day first division cricket competition ended recently with the highlight of the round being the innings of Young Warriors Damodar Daesrat and Paul Wintz.

Kriskal Persaud first came to attention on the local chess scene as a diminutive 12-year-old junior player from Berbice.

President of the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) Noel Adonis has made a call to the local corporate community to offer support to Guyana’s rugby efforts since the local men’s side is likely to represent the region at the World Cup Sevens championships in 2009.

Dwayne Bravo’s upgrade to the vice-captaincy for the forthcoming West Indies tour of Zimbabwe and South Africa places a new responsibility on a dynamic, richly talented all-round cricketer whose game has begun to drift into the worrying underachievement that has overcome so many others in the team.

Hosts Fruta Conquerors will go into action tomorrow as play in the fourth annual Fruta Conquerors Knockout Football Festival sponsored by the National Milling Company (Namilco) continues at the Tucville playfield under lights.