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Nervy T&T quiet CCC to pick up first win

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Trinidad and Tobago brushed aside a ragged Combined Campuses and Colleges by seven wickets to register their first win and get their Caribbean Twenty20 campaign up and running here Tuesday night.

This  picture tells it all, the agony of defeat and the unbridled joy of victory. At left, Guyana’s ninth wicket pair of skipper Veerasammy Permaul and Devendra Bishoo celebrates the stunning last over victory while at right fast bowler Jason Holder is despondent, left to rue what might have been. (Photo courtesy of WICB media)
This picture tells it all, the agony of defeat and the unbridled joy of victory. At left, Guyana’s ninth wicket pair of skipper Veerasammy Permaul and Devendra Bishoo celebrates the stunning last over victory while at right fast bowler Jason Holder is despondent, left to rue what might have been. (Photo courtesy of WICB media)

Great Escape!

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – A sloppy final over from beanpole seamer Jason Holder gifted Guyana a dramatic last-ball win over Combined Campuses and Colleges in the Caribbean Twenty20 here Monday night.

Nicolette Fernandes in action against Japan’s Misaki Kobayahshi at the World Squash Open tournament in the Cayman Islands in the Cayman Islands.
Nicolette Fernandes in action against Japan’s Misaki Kobayahshi at the World Squash Open tournament in the Cayman Islands in the Cayman Islands.

‘I want to be the best in the World’

At the end of 2012 Nicolette Fernandes saw her career ranking move from number 47 in the World to number 32.

Vernon Burnett

Burnett sees light at the end of the tunnel with FIFA, CONCACAF officials visit

The impending arrival of CONCACAF and FIFA representatives signals the possible beginning of the reconciliation process between two disgruntled football organisations, the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) and the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) and the hope of fixing the already fractured and tumultuous football situation in Guyana seems a little more realistic.

Marlon Samuels

Samuels out of Big Bash

SYDNEY, CMC-Injured West Indies all-rounder Marlon Samuels was yesterday replaced by England batsman Alex Hales in Melbourne Renegades squad for the remaining matches of the Australian Big Bash league.

Chris Gayle

– but Sydney Thunder still winless

MELBOURNE, Australia, CMC- Chris Gayle emerged from a run drought to hit a record half century but the Sydney Thunder squandered his heroics and succumbed to a 13 run loss against the Melbourne Stars in the Australian Big Bash League yesterday.

Gayle ends drought with record half century

MELBOURNE, Australia,  CMC- Chris Gayle emerged from a run drought to hit a record half century but the Sydney Thunder squandered his heroics and succumbed to a 13 run loss against the Melbourne Stars in the Australian Big Bash League Tuesday.

Barbados skipper Dwayne Smith belts a delivery from Justin Athanaze, not in picture for another boundary. (Photo courtesy WICB media)

Buoyant Barbados crush wayward Leewards

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Barbados made light work of Leeward Islands, romping to an emphatic nine-wicket win to send an early warning in the 2013 edition of the Caribbean Twenty20 here yesterday.

Paul Wintz

All to play for as B/ce takes on Demerara

Arch-rivals Berbice and Demerara are both within reach of winning the Guyana Cricket Board’s senior Inter County limited overs competition which will climax today with the final two matches.

Messi sweeps to fourth successive award

ZURICH,  (Reuters) – Lionel Messi, still only 25, was named the world’s best player for the fourth time in a row  yesterday after a year in which he finally produced his best form for Argentina as well as Barcelona.

Merissa Aguilleira

Windies women lose first ODI to South Africa

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – A fighting knock of 40 from skipper Merissa Aguilleira was the only sparkle as West Indies suffered a batting collapse and lost to South Africa by 80 runs in the first of their five match one-day International series at Warner Park here yesterday.

Coaches claim victory was possible barring rain

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC- Coaches of the two teams involved in Sunday night’s opening clash of the Caribbean T20 tournament both claim they had a chance of pulling of victory barring the inclement weather which forced the match to be abandoned.

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