Cush, Crandon out of regional one-dayers
Stanford Superstars player Lennox Cush and fast bowler Esaun Crandon are out of this year’s regional limited overs competition which commences in Guyana on November 13. Speaking to Stabroek Sport yesterday Cush, who was a sure bet to be in the Guyana team, told this newspaper that he has suffered a ruptured ligament in his [...]
Janet John-Dorie here to assist locals
Former national wicketkeeper Janet John-Dorie is back home and is planning to continue her assistance to local female cricketers. John-Dorie, who kept wicket for Guyana from 1976-2003 before migrating to Canada, said since migrating in 2003 her mind has always been on assisting the locals. John-Dorie said in Canada she immediately marked her name in [...]
Stuart Maloney crowned Caribbean champion at lavish presentation ceremony
The Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club Monday evening honoured a long list of competitors who performed well at the final leg of the 2008 Caribbean Championships and also the local championships. Barbadian Stuart Maloney in his Mitsubishi Evolution was crowned 2008 Caribbean Championship driver. The soft-spoken Maloney, who scored the maximum 30 points in [...]
Million dollar circle tennis tournament to be launched
Chairman of Vision Guyana Peter Ramsaroop has announced that within two months the richest circle tennis (rounders) tournament in Guyana’s history will get underway. The competition, which will be worth one million dollars, will be played at the youth level. According to Ramsaroop, Vision Guyana was looking at reviving one or more sports that are [...]
Maloney wins Caribbean 2008 C/ships
Stuart Maloney with a first and a third-place finish in the first two races comfortably drove away with the 2008 Caribbean Motor Racing championships at the South Dakota Circuit yesterday. Maloney’s father Douglas, who was in the lead with 35 points after the first two rounds was unable to participate after the head joint on [...]
Wintz denies DCC Neal and Massy crown
The Young Warriors proved their mettle last evening as they walked away with both the champions’ trophy and the man-of-the-match award. Led by Young Warrior’s captain Paul Wintz with a match winning 43 which include a solitary boundary and ably supported by Gajanand Singh with a 63 ball 50 studded with six fours took the [...]
Fitzgerald crowned National Darts Champion
- surgery prevents Madhoo from defending title The 2008 National Darts Championship held over the weekend by the Guyana Darts Association (GDA) saw a new men’s singles champion being crowned. The tournament which was expected to be a tussle between defending champion Norman Madhoo and currently Guyana’s highest internationally-rated player, Sudesh Fitzgerald, never materialized. Contacted [...]
De Jonge entertained before rain has final say
Maxie De Jonge played an entertaining innings of 53 for those gathered, before the clouds opened up and the rain had the final say, bringing a premature end to the third and final day’s play in the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Presidents Cup competition between the Rohan Kanhai Strikers and the Lance Gibbs Tigers. Playing [...]
Maloneys here hunting glory
All roads will lead to the South Dakota Circuit this Sunday for the final leg of the Caribbean Motor Racing championships. Some 107 competitors have already registered for the final leg of the Caribbean Race of Champions 2008. Speaking to reporters at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Guyana, President of the Guyana Motor Racing and [...]
Malteenoes launches Sixes competition
- play set for Diwali Day The Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) will on Tuesday (Diwali Day) bowl off the Ansa McAl-sponsored Sixes competition featuring nine first-class teams, including two from Berbice. The competition, which was launched on Wednesday at the club’s Thomas Lands pavilion, will see eight matches being played among defending champions Demerara Cricket [...]
Christian and Barrington tons lead Tigers to a draw
It was supposed to be a display of the Clive Lloyd Super Cats taking apart the Lance Gibbs Tigers but it was not to be. Yesterday the Tigers, boosted by an overnight partnership from opener Shemroy Barrington and number three Devon Clements saw the Tigers overhaul the 191 deficit and putting 17 runs on the [...]
Tigers claw their way back through Barrington, Clements
Unbeaten half centuries from Shemroy Barrington and Devon Clements saw Lance Gibbs’ Tigers reaching 167-1 at the close of the second day’s play of the President’s Cup competition and made sure that the former West Indies off-spinner would not be disappointed with their display. Batting a second time after Clive Lloyd’s Super Cats were dismissed [...]
Super Cats make super reply
In the second cricket match of the President’s Championship 2008, Leon Johnson’s Clive Lloyd’s Super Cats virtually assured themselves the winners’ cheque of $200,000 at the end of day one. At the close of the first day of the game played at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) Bourda ground Lance Gibbs Tigers, led by West [...]
Guyana’s representative to international coaching programme left at home
- has not procured visa for course which starts tomorrow Cricket coach Michael Hyles, popularly known as `Franko,’ is ruing his luck after not being able to make it to England in time for the commencement of a coaching course to be conducted by the England Cricket Board (ECB). Hyles, who was selected as Guyana’s [...]
Amputees, wheel-chair bound athletes heading for New York City marathon
Medal of Service (MS) awardees William France and Dennis Burns will lead a four-member team to the ING-sponsored New York City marathon to be held on November 2, in the United States of America. Amputee-walker France, who has competed in some 22 marathons over the years, told Stabroek Sport that he would be calling it [...]