ECCB U-19 Cricket Competition rained out
-52 called to trials Following the persistent rainfall over the last week, the East Coast Cricket Board (ECCB) Under-19 Compet-ition has been cancelled. Speaking to Stabroek Sport, Chairman of the Competitions Committee Raymond Barton said that they have decided to call 52 players to trials. According to Barton, along with fellow ECCB Selectors Hardeo Sattaur, [...]
Persaud on top as Keishar’s Easter Chess Tournament begins
National champion Kriskal Persaud is among three persons who are on the maximum three points as the first round of the Keishar’s Easter Open Chess Tournament got underway yesterday. Denis Dillon and Omar Sharryf are the other two players who have ended the first round on three points. The Berbice-based Persaud was under tremendous pressure [...]
New Demerara board competition to stem exodus of cricketers to city
President of the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) Bissoondial Singh says the Inter-Association First Division 50 over has been added to the 2009 calendar as a means of staunching the flight of players to the capital. The competition is similar to the Under-19 matches and likewise a similar selection method will be used to choose the [...]
Gafoors 20/20 semi-finals rained out
Mentore keen for contest The Gafoors 20/20 semi-finals slated for Berbice and Demerara yesterday were washed out after torrential rain swept across the two counties. The competition which started in October 2008 with more than thirty-four teams countrywide was expected to climax this weekend. Late last year the competition saw the organizers cutting short a [...]
All set for Inter-Guiana Games 2009
- New points system put in place, says Sports Director Director of Sports Neil Kumar says that all arrangements have been put in place for the upcoming Inter-Guiana Games and a new points system will replace the complicated one that was used previously. “No one will have to worry as to how to tally their [...]
Tiwari returned as head of GCF
- priority to get back into FIDE In a solid show of support incumbent president of the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) Errol Tiwari was unanimously re-elected to another term when the federation held its AGM and elections Sunday. Tiwari who was instrumental in the resuscitation of the federation back in 2007 will head a nine-member [...]
‘Janet Jagan was a sports enthusiast’
-says Director of Sports, Neil Kumar `Her love for sports encouraged many a competitive rivalry in and out the party’ The late president of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, Janet Jagan preached keeping fit and was responsible for private swimming pools to be made available to local swimmers according to Director of Sports, Neil Kumar. [...]
‘Team equipped to perform creditably’
-Coach Michael Hyles Coach of the 14-member Women’s U19 cricket team which will participate in this years regional women’s tournament, Michael “Franco” Hyles is confident that the team can perform creditably. Speaking to Stabroek Sport, Hyles, who along with Sheik Mohammed and Faizul Bacchus selected the team, says the only disappointment has been the hasty [...]
2009 CLICO WICB Under-15 Tournament
GCB will not suffer financial loss -Chetram Singh The Guyana Cricket Board will not suffer any financial loss as a result of the regional U-15 cricket tournament being switched to Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) president Chetram Singh has disclosed. Following a request from the official sponsors of the West Indies Under-15 Tournament, [...]
Barbados Junior International Lawn Tennis tournament
Nine players wing out for Barbados yesterday A nine-member team departed Guyana yesterday for Barbados where they will participate in the Barbados Junior International Lawn tennis tournament this weekend. The team includes five Under-18 players in Jeremy Miller, Jonathan Antczak, Rajesh Ramrattan Aruna Ramrattan and Tracy Azeez and four Under-14 players in Daniel Lopes, Seanden [...]
Madhoo to compete in US$35,000 Darts Classics
Resurgent former national darts champion Norman Madhoo will wing out today for the United States where he will be taking part in the 23rd Annual Virginia Beach Darts Classics. The former national champion, who was plagued by recurring injuries last year when he was dethroned by young Sudesh Fitzgerald without throwing a dart, said that [...]
ECCB U-19 competition to bowl off Saturday
- 16 teams billed to participate Some sixteen East Coast Demerara teams from Liliendaal to Abary are expected to do battle this weekend in the East Coast Cricket Board (ECCB) Under-19 limited overs competition. The competition which bowls off on March 28 will see the teams doing battle in a round robin format over three [...]
`We set the standard that the world followed’
- Sir Vivian Richards tells audience at Evening of Nostalgia An “Evening of Nostalgia” it sure was when two celebrated former West Indies players and an icon of Caribbean journalism spoke of West Indies cricket in the glory days. Sir Vivian Richards, Roger Harper and Tony Cozier were the guests at the latest and possibly [...]
National Sport Commission Awards 2008
Chanderpaul cops another record On Friday evening International Cricket Council’s 2008 Cricketer of the Year Shivnarine Chanderpaul collected his fifth Sportsman of the Year award from acting president Samuel Hinds at the National Sport Commission annual awards ceremony held at the National Cutural Centre. The Sportsman of the Year win proved to be another record [...]
‘Being sober is the best way to be’
-Says Sir Vivian Richards Sir Vivian Richards, Johnnie Walker responsible drinking ambassador yesterday stated that consumption of alcohol impaired one’s reflexes. Richards, one of the most destructive batsmen in the world during his heyday, made the statement at a `Know Your Boundaries’ simulation exercise on Main Street yesterday. “This campaign over the past two and [...]