Sports

Despite concluding the ‘Elite League’ on September 23rd, the Guyana Football Federation [GFF] is yet to pay the top four finishers their respective prize monies and the players, their match day stipends.

National table tennis players who recently returned from participating in the 60th edition of the Caribbean Table Tennis Federation (CTTF) Senior Championships in Jamaica, are keen on recording more success on home soil in 2019. 

Plaisance Guardians dismantled the Pepsi Sonics, while Ravens schooled the University of Guyana [UG] Trojans on Wednesday in the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association’s [GABA] League Championship.

The 2018 edition of the Guyana Softball Cup will bowl off on October 26th and will run for two days across various grounds in and around Georgetown.

The cycling season will resume tomorrow in the National Park with the staging of the 14th annual Hand-in-Hand Mutual Fire and Life Insurance Company’s 11-race programme.

RAJKOT, India, CMC – West Indies suffered at the hands of teenager Prithvi Shaw who struck the third fastest hundred on debut as India dominated the opening day of the first Test here yesterday.

(Reuters) – Sportswear maker Nike Inc and video game maker Electronic Arts Inc said yesterday they were concerned about rape allegations against Cristiano Ronaldo, one of the world’s best football players.

(Reuters) – India’s Prithvi Shaw has been compared to batting great Sachin Tendulkar since he was a 14-year-old schoolboy and the lofty parallels will intensify after the teenage prodigy made a sparkling hundred on his test debut yesterday.

(Reuters) – American Floyd Landis, who won the Tour de France in 2006 but lost the title after being found guilty of doping, announced yesterday plans to launch a professional cycling team that will be sponsored by his cannabis business.

The 2018 Lucozade handicap squash tournament began last evening with junior sensations Madison Fernandes and Mohryan Baksh sinking their opponents to register significant round one wins at the Georgetown Club.

Ansa McAl, under its Lasco, Lyrix and Smalta brands, joined forces with the Petra Organization to aid in the staging of the Guyana Oil Company [GuyOil] Under-18 Secondary Schools Football League.

RAJKOT, India, CMC – Without a Test win on Indian soil in 24 years and a series victories in nearly four decades, underdogs West Indies find themselves up against the hurdle of history as much as the might of the world’s number one team, in the opening Test which bowls off here today.

Within the last decade or so, when people in the cricket world thought of Essequibo it was usually associated with the lesser of the three counties in terms of dominance.

Guyana’s female team to the 43rd Chess Olympiad in Batumi, Georgia bounced back in round nine to beat Ivory Coast 3-1 while the men’s team drew 2-2 with Aruba yesterday.

A historic weekend of boxing is on the cards. This is according to President of the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA), Steve Ninvalle referring to the Lennox Blackmore Intermediate Championships which will be staged from tomorrow evening at the National Gymnasium.

Director of Sports Christopher Jones has joined the long list of persons to laud the efforts of Guyana’s national table tennis players who recently produced one of Guyana’s best showing at the Caribbean level, at the 60th edition of the Caribbean Table Tennis Federation (CTTF) Senior Championships in Jamaica.

The Demerara Cricket Club (DCC), also known as the “Home of Legends” has sent out congratulations and best wishes to four of their members who will be displaying their skills in the Cricket West Indies (CWI) Regional Super – 50 championships. 

If you press your ears to the pulse of keen cricket followers in Guyana, one would quickly agree with their sentiments regarding the continued exclusion of Essequibo skipper Anthony Adams from the national set-up. 

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Teenage batting prospect Prithvi Shaw will make his debut for India in the opening test of the two-match series against West Indies starting in Rajkot today.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – White-ball specialist batsman Aaron Finch and South Australia captain Travis Head will make their test debuts in the series-opener against Pakistan in Dubai on Sunday, Australia coach Justin Langer has confirmed.