Sports

WATCHING Australia’s utter domination over England in the ultra-hyped Ashes series that ended with their 5-0 whitewash in Sydney on Friday was to replay similar humiliations inflicted by the West Indies on all opponents in the mid-1980s.

Azeemul Hannif marked his return to the regional first class scene with an unbeaten half-century while new Guyana skipper Narsingh Deonarine scored another as the four-day Carib Beer Series match against the Windward Islands ended in a no-result at the Tanteen Recreation Sports Club ground in Grenada yesterday.

The Bounty Colts continued to romp up the seed table by defeating the Scorpions by ten points at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall Friday night when the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) league tournament continued.

The Guyana Information Agency (GINA) and National Communications Network State Rangers XI will try desperately to preserve their winning ways when they clash with Nexus Machinery Workshop in a Trophy Stall/Awards City Mall sponsored 20-over tapeball cricket competition at the National Cultural Centre Tarmac today from 1pm.

Four of Georgetown’s top softball teams will compete in a ten- over knockout softball competition at the Celina resort tomorrow.

Less than 11 overs was possible yesterday in the Carib Beer clash between Guyana and the Windward Islands as overnight and early morning showers soaked the Tanteen Recreation ground in Grenada.

Technical Director of the national football team, Jamal Shabazz, of the twin-island republic, is confident ahead of the upcoming matches in the finals of the Digicel Caribbean Cup Football Tournament which gets underway on Friday in Trinidad and Tobago.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) for Cricket World Cup 2007 Karan Singh said yesterday that the CEOs of the nine host countries would meet in Guyana this week-end.

Central American and Caribbean Games’ ladies gold medallist and local squash `Queen’ Nicolette Fernandes and Kenya-based track athlete Cleveland `The Little Kenyan’ Forde are prime candidates for the 2006 Sportswoman and Sportsman of the Year awards respectively.

Horse racing has been on the rise again locally and although there has been a number of improvements in racing facilities countrywide there still has been evidence of bad management and poor track administration at most meets.

Guyana, under new skipper Narsingh Deonarine, will look to start the new year on a winning note when they take on the Windward Islands in their opening match of the 2007 Carib Beer Series at the Tanteen Recreation Ground today.

Tucber Park ‘A’ defeated the Mibicuri Strikers in the quarter final match of the Republic Bank sponsored Under-15 Limited Overs Cricket Competition for Berbice teams.

The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) hopes to select office bearers as early as next month at its annual general meeting (AGM).

Former West Indies opener Ryan Ramdass says he anticipates a strenuous therapeutic work load after his cast is removed and to be back in form in time for the regional competition.

The Pepsi Sonics stopped one breath short of calling the Georgetown Amateur Basket-ball Association (GABA) a one-man show Tuesday when they released details of an appeal they filed with the association.

Kashif and Shanghai co-director Kashif Mohammed said yesterday that including Trinidad’s club football team Joe Public, winners of the 2006 Kashif and Shanghai football tournament, had raised the tournament to a higher standard than in previous years.

Twelve members of the Guyana national cricket team left for Grenada yesterday to prepare to battle the Windward Islands from tomorrow in the Carib Beer and KFC regional cricket competitions.

Avery Grant – student: ‘I plan on writing five subjects at the CXC examination in May/June of this year and I am hoping that I will do well.

An exhilarating experience and much glory is what the eternal optimist hopes the dawning of a new year will bring to Guyana in 2007.

The blighted Georgetown city council will enter 2007 still deep in debt amounting to millions of dollars and owing a part of its work force for outstanding wages and benefits due last year.