Cricket

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Hard-hitting opener Chris Gayle is the only West Indies player in the top 20 of the ICC One-Day International rankings released on Monday.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Kumar Sangakkara has stood  down as captain of Sri Lanka’s limited overs team after their  World Cup final loss to India on Saturday but plans to carry on  as the interim test skipper until a replacement is found.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Departing India coach Gary  Kirsten hailed World Cup winning-captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni as  the best leader in contemporary cricket as he bid an emotional  goodbye yesterday following a successful three years in charge.

KARACHI, Pakistan, CMC – Pakistan batting legend Javed Miandad has been asked to work with the national side’s batsmen ahead of the tour of the West Indies.

DUBLIN, Ireland, CMC – Ireland head coach Phil Simmons has condemned as “despicable” the decision by the International Cricket Council to limit the 2015 Cricket World Cup to the 10 full members.

Wolf Warriors and Trophy Stall Anglels Saturday stormed into the quarter finals of the lucrative Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company Limited 10/10 softball tournament at the Uitvlugt Community Centre ground.

CAVE HILL, Barbados, CMC – Ryan Austin and Kavesh Kantasingh continued to weave their web around regional batsmen, when they bowled Combined Campuses & Colleges to a 157-run victory over Windward Islands yesterday.

ST. AUGUSTINE, Trinidad, CMC – Jason Dawes and Andre Russell enhanced Jamaica’s chances of reaching the Final of the WICB Regional first-class championship, after their batsmen, led by Wavell Hinds, piled-up the runs against Trinidad & Tobago yesterday.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Mahendra Singh Dhoni celebrated  India’s World Cup triumph by shaving off his famous dark locks  while his team mates spent yesterday morning plastering a “thousand  kisses” on the silver and gilt trophy that was finally in their  possession.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Sachin Tendulkar stands at the  heart of a real life drama today which would be rejected  as impossibly contrived if suggested to any director in the  flourishing film industry of his native Mumbai.

Despite the fact that Guyana’s senior cricket team finished in the cellar of this year’s West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) First Class competition, national coach Mark Harper feels that Guyana’s cricket is not a lost cause.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Brief profiles of the India and Sri Lanka captains in today’s World Cup final at the Wankhede Stadium.

ST AUGUSTINE, Trinidad, CMC – Test left-hander Brendan Nash was closing in on a century but the in-form Marlon Samuels missed out on one, as Jamaica dominated Trinidad and Tobago on the opening day of their Regional First Class Championship semi-final yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Opener Romel Currency fell five short of a deserved century but his innings kept Combined Campuses and Colleges afloat on the opening day of their Regional First Class Championship semi-final against Windward Islands yesterday.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Pakistan World Cup captain  Shahid Afridi has withdrawn from next month’s tour to West  Indies, a source at the national cricket board told Reuters on  Thursday.

Cricket competitions under the aegis of the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) will take place this week end at several venues with arch rivals Demerara Cricket Club and the Georgetown Cricket Club meeting in a key first division fixture fixture.

ST AUGUSTINE, Trinidad, CMC – An absorbing contest can be expected, when Trinidad & Tobago face three-time defending champions Jamaica in their semi-final of the WICB Regional first-class championship, starting today at the University of the West Indies Sports & Physical Education Centre.

Trophy Stall XI have kept their title defence hopes alive, entering the super sixteen stage of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) Softball Cricket Competition set for the Uitvlugt Community Centre Ground and the Everest Cricket Ground on April 2 and 3.

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Balancing India’s commercial power with the interests of other cricket-playing nations is one of the main challenges facing the game over the next few years, according to former ICC chief executive Malcolm Speed.

CAVE HILL, Barbados, CMC – Combined Campuses & Colleges will be looking to create more history, when they face Windward Islands in the semi-finals of the WICB Regional first-class championship, starting today at the Three Ws Oval.