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Skipper of the Guyana Jaguars Leon Johnson has endorsed cricket’s newest format – T10 – the ten overs slug out which has emerged as a more concise and exciting dimension to the sport for fans and players alike. 

National badminton champs Narayan and Priyanna Ramdhani are actively engaged in an arduous training regimen ahead of next month’s senior Pan American Games in Peru.

Enterprising first-class left-hander Trevon Griffith has warmed up for the upcoming UDeCOTT T10 International cricket tournament with two half-centuries in the just concluded TT Cricket Board T20 festival. 

Former national youth cricketer Kellon Carmichael has begun his 2019 stint in England with a few top performances at the weekend for his clubs – Goring By Sea CC in the Sussex Premier Cricket League and Sabina SC – in the Greater London Cricket League.

Coach Esuan Crandon says he is steadfast about ensuring that Guyana secures the Regional first-class double.

He was appointed to the coaching staff of the West Indies men’s cricket team in January on the back of an exceptional regional record and was surely gearing up for the ongoing ICC 50 World Cup, however, it wasn’t to be.

Not too many cricketing nations are fortunate enough to install their ICC World Cup-winning captain as Prime Minister or President after the end of their cricketing career.

The term ‘puncher’s chance’ has been thrown around in sports quite a lot in favour of the underdogs, who on their day- be it by luck of stroke or brilliance- can inspire knock out blows over their more favoured opponents. 

Here’s a fun fact: South Africa – a proud cricket nation with a rich history of producing a number of world-class one day players – has never appeared in an ICC 50-over World Cup grand finale.

It’s hard to neglect the instinctive winning pedigree of an Australian team in an ICC event.

If host England ‘manages’ to pull off a maiden World Cup win on home turf, then a couple of things will follow like poetry in motion. 

Decorated and long-serving squash coach Carl Ince is set to take the Junior National Squash team under his wings for an intense period of training as the Guyana Squash Association (GSA) intensifies its readiness for the 2019 edition of the Caribbean games set for Trinidad and Tobago in July.

CPL Draft day is set to take place in London tomorrow and many cricket lovers around the region are anxiously waiting to see the composition of the respective teams.

As the buzz surrounding the biggest party in sport – the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) – begins to excite the region, a number of regional players are hoping that they created enough noise to earn a call-up for the Caribbean’s own T20 showpiece event. 

A day after being crowned the National Sports Commission’s junior Sportsman-of-the-Year, squash ace Shomari Wiltshire showed why he is deserving of the title by retaining the national boys Under-17 and U19 titles when the 2019 Woodpecker Products Junior National Squash tournament concluded Saturday evening at the Georgetown Club Squash Court. 

Former first-class off-spinner turn coach, Garvin `Tibbsy’ Nedd has teamed up with the National Sports Commission (NSC) to conduct a five-day cricket coaching and scouting programme in the mining town of Linden in Region 10.

The curtain came down on the National Sports Commission (NSC) 2018 national sports awards ceremony at the Le Meridien Pegasus Hotel Friday evening with basketballer Stanton Rose and national table tennis ace Chelsea Edghill receiving the Senior Sportsman and Sportswoman-of-the-Year awards. 

Off-spinner Matthew Nandu yesterday produced a stellar bowling performance to spin the national Under-17 select side to a 42-run win over Essequibo in the second round of the Hand-in-Hand under – 19 Inter-County one-day tournament at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) Ground.

The Guyana Squash Association (GSA) has selected Mary Fung – A – Fat, Ashley Khalil and Taylor Fernandes as Guyana’s representatives to compete at the upcoming Pan Am Games in Lima, Peru, according to its President David Fernandes.

The 2019 Indian Premier League (IPL) season is over; it came to a thrilling end on Sunday last where Kieron Pollard’s Mumbai Indians overcame Dwayne Bravo’s Chennai Super Kings to clinch their fourth IPL title.