Cricket

The GT&T 10/10 Cricket Softball Competition produced some exciting performances across the country in its second week of competition.

MIRPUR, Bangladesh, CMC – Darren Sammy confessed he still needs to show the form needed to lead by example.

Half centuries from Shemroy Barrington and Gajanand Singh, along with spells of good bowling, added some spark to an otherwise ordinary day of cricket at the GCC Ground, Bourda, yesterday.

By Tony Cozier At the ICC World Cup In DHAKASo much has changed in cricket’s World Cup that its initial tournaments now seem like museum pieces.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – A battle for supremacy between  bouncers and yorkers may eventually decide the outcome of  tomorrow’s World Cup Group A showdown between Australia and Sri  Lanka in Colombo.

(Jamaica Observer) Marlon Samuels has shrugged off suggestions he refused the offer to replace the injured Dwayne Bravo in the West Indies World Cup team out of fear of being charged by police authorities in India.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Nitish Kumar has serious  business to attend to during the long rest periods at the  Cricket World Cup — armed with a stack of textbooks and notes,  the Canadian batsman has his high school homework to complete.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad & Tobago have shifted their fifth round match in the WICB Regional first-class championship against Leeward Islands to the Queen’s Park Oval.

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC – Officials in St. Kitts & Nevis have hailed the International Cricket Council’s decision to stage a High Performance camp in the island.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Pakistan’s World Cup  aspirations lie firmly on the shoulders of skipper Shahid Afridi  and once again he came to the rescue as an unthinkable defeat to  Canada yesterday was averted in an eventual 46-run win.

TAUNTON, England, CMC – Joel Garner has agreed to become a patron of the Glastonbury Club.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – Ireland’s shock three-wicket  World Cup win over England not only threw Group B wide open but  provided a timely warning that no team can take quarter-final  spots for granted.

(Reuters) – Facts and figures relating to the Group  B World Cup match between Bangladesh and West Indies (0900 GMT)  at Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur on Friday.

BANGALORE, (Reuters) – Ireland’s Kevin O’Brien, who  plays his cricket for the Railway Union Club, yesterday stood  head and shoulders above some of the sport’s greatest names  after guiding his country to one of the biggest World Cup shocks  with victory over the old enemy England.

BANGALORE, (Reuters) – England must raise their game  by several notches if they are to stay alive in the World Cup  and Andrew Strauss admitted that unless they stopped “chasing  their tails”, their journey could come to a premature end.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – A resurgent West Indies will  have a stronger opposition to try their Plan B when they take on  an ambitious Bangladesh in tomorrow’s World Cup Group B match in  Dhaka.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – When Sri Lanka turned up for  their first two World Cup matches without Lasith Malinga, it was  a bit like watching The Good, The Bad and the Ugly without the  gun-slinging heroics of Clint Eastwood.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – In a World Cup in the  sub-continent generally expected to be dominated by spinners,  the success of fast bowlers has come as very little surprise to  former West Indies captain Richie Richardson.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – An aggrieved Indian cricket  board (BCCI) on Wednesday sent a letter to the game’s governing  body slamming the “inadequacy” of the Umpire Decision Review  System (UDRS) being used in the World Cup.

For the first time in the WICB First-Class tournament Guyana showed some backbone before they drew their game against Barbados at the Guyana National Stadium and skipper Assad Fudadin was pleased with the performance.