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Former West Indies captain, Sir Richie Richardson, is of the opinion the Caribbean side can return to the top of world cricket.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – This year’s Indian Premier League (IPL) has been postponed indefinitely following the COVID-19 pandemic, key franchise officials told Reuters yesterday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The NFL campaign and an abbreviated baseball season may be possible if games are played without fans and players are kept in lockdown, U.S.

Junior National Table Tennis Coach Dwain Dick is calling on the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) and other related sports bodies to provide virtual psychosocial support for athletes who may be physiologically affected by the impact of the Coronavirus. 

The 2020 edition of the Pele Alumni Corporation’s Youth Development Seminar is the latest event to be forced into submission by the COVID-19 pandemic following the announcement of its cancellation. 

Until recently, the sport of boxing enjoyed tremendous popularity in Guyana.

The highly anticipated FIFA 20 eSports tournament, ‘League of Champions’, which is being hosted by iBet Supreme, has been boosted tremendously by additional sponsors joining the team. 

With uncertainty surrounding a timeframe for the end of the Covid-19 pandemic, Vibert Garrett, president of the Berbice Amateur Basketball Association (BABA), stated that he is extremely worried about the overall recovery of the local sports fraternity.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Legendary fast bowler Sir Curtly Ambrose has lauded the Ricky Skerritt administration for immediately confronting and attempting to fix the player issues facing West Indies cricket.

(Reuters) – On a warm July 1983 day in the Colorado mountains, a slender American woman literally reached the peak of female sprinting when she smashed the women’s 100 metres world record that German athletes had owned for a decade.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Former Australia captain Allan Border said on Tuesday he cannot even imagine the prospect of hosting this year’s Twenty20 World Cup at empty stadiums due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies Test captain Jason Holder says he hopes to leave a legacy of being one of the greats in the longest format, but is cognizant of the need to sustain very high standards if he is to achieve that goal.

First-vice president of the Guyana Lawn Tennis Association (GLTA), Cristy Campbell, isn’t at all worried about the short-term impact of the ongoing global pandemic on the sport locally. 

MUMBAI, India, CMC – Lingering hopes that this year’s Indian Premier League could evade the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic continued to slowly fade, with the Indian Cricket Board (BCCI) conceding Monday the future of the lucrative tournament remained “hazy”, in light of yesterday’s much anticipated national address by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – South African batsman AB de Villiers has said that if the Twenty20 World Cup scheduled for October in Australia was postponed to next year then that could end his hopes of returning to the national side.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Cycling teams are gearing up for the Tour de France to be held in August rather than the usual July, after French President Emmanuel Macron said big public events would be halted until mid-July as the country fights the COVID-19 pandemic.

West Indies female all-rounder, Shabika Gajnabi, is confident she will dominate if and when Cricket West Indies’ Women’s Super50 tournament plays.

The plan by Rickey Skerritt, President of Cricket West Indies (CWI), to involve regional governments in the grassroots development of cricket has received approval from a CWI affiliate.

Georgetown Cricket Club’s Devon Lord, like many who enjoy the gentleman’s game locally, dreams of one day earning his maiden Guyana Jaguars cap.

World number one Rory McIlroy has said that staging the Masters in November may boost his quest to win a career Grand Slam.