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Cornelia Ida was crowned the Jits & Neelam 40-Over Cricket Champion, defeating Windsor Forest by three wickets on Sunday at the West Meten-Meer-Zorg ground.

-Initiative lauded as developmental pathway for local cricket Some 75 primary schools, further broken down to 10 students from each school, – six boys and four girls – will take part in the 2nd edition of the Republic Bank ‘Five for Fun’ cricket programme.

KFC Elite League In the battle of the winless teams, Monedderlust and Buxton United played to a 2-2 stalemate last evening in the KFC Elite League at the National Training Centre, Providence.

FIFA’s Regional Office Lead, Hervé Blanchard, has commended the Guyana Football Federation’s (GFF) efforts to improve the local infrastructure and reiterated FIFA’s collaboration with the governing body to develop the sport.

As the Guyana Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation (GBBFF) prepares to host the 51st Central America and Caribbean Fitness and Bodybuilding Championship (CAC) in October, the Ministry of Culture, Youth, and Sport (MCY&S) and the National Sports Commission (NSC) have confirmed their support for staging the event.

Caribbean Junior Table Tennis Championships Guyana recorded mixed team results on the opening day of the Caribbean Junior Table Tennis Championships in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, as the U-15 girls defeated Jamaica and the U-19 boys lost to Puerto Rico.

(CMC) – Captain Hayley Matthews carved out her second hundred of the series as West Indies Women completed their whitewash of Pakistan Women with an 88-run victory in the final One-Day International yesterday.

Wismar/Christianburg and Mackenzie High will contest the final of the ExxonMobil Linden Schools Football Championship on Friday following semifinal wins yesterday at the Wisburg Secondary Ground.

Following the Guyana Harpy Eagles successful defence of their West Indies Four-Day Championship over the last weekend, the Georgetown Cricket Association has extended congratulations to the team.

Torrential rainfall yesterday spoiled the start of the Guyana Cricket Board’s (GCB) inaugural T10 Blast as no-results were called in both games scheduled for the Enmore Community Centre ground, East Coast Demerara.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) blanked the Classic Ball Blasters 3-0 when the Demerara Volleyball Association’s (DVA) Senior Men’s League continued yesterday at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.

By Michaelangelo Jacobus On Sunday, for the first time since the 2024 cycling season got underway, there was a new winner on the roadways not named Briton John as KFC Evolution cyclist Christopher ‘Chicken Legs’ Griffith took first place in the second Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF) Points Road Race.

(ESPN) Sunil Narine has ruled himself out of a recall to West Indies’ squad for the forthcoming T20 World Cup in the Caribbean and USA, insisting that “that door is now closed” despite his stellar form for Kolkata Knight Riders at the IPL.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Seasoned Test all-rounder Roston Chase will lead a 15-man West Indies A-side on an historic five-match Twenty20 tour of Nepal starting Saturday.

Safely strapped into his trustworthy KTM X-Bow, Vishok Persaud picked up where he left off from last season by turning in stellar performances in Group Four (highest category) races of the Guyana Motor Racing & Sports Club (GMR&SC) Circuit Racing Series on Sunday at the South Dakota Circuit.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Rookies Mikyle Louis and Joshua Bishop topped the aggregates during the West Indies Championship which concluded last weekend.

(Field Level Media) Donovan Mitchell recorded 23 points and eight rebounds and Jarrett Allen collected a personal-playoff-high 20 boards to pace the Cleveland Cavaliers to a 96-86 victory over the visiting Orlando Magic last night to take a 2-0 lead in an Eastern Conference first-round series.

(ESPN) Sandeep Sharma announced his return from injury with magnificent figures of 5 for 18, the best by any bowler in this season’s IPL, before Yashasvi Jaiswal blazed back to form with a sparkling 59-ball century, as Rajasthan Royals signed off from the Jaipur leg of their campaign with a seventh statement win in eight matches to cement their table-topping status.

(Field Level Media) Donte DiVincenzo hit the go-ahead 3-pointer with 13.1 seconds left last night for the host New York Knicks, who scored the final eight points in the last 28 seconds to stun the Philadelphia 76ers 104-101 and take a 2-0 lead in their Eastern Conference first-round series.

(Reuters) – With T20 cricket becoming increasingly more batter-dominated, bowlers with the ‘X-factor’ could make all the difference in the World Cup in June, West Indies head coach Daren Sammy told Reuters.