Cricket

RAJKOT, India, CMC – A resolute 63 from Shanel Daley failed to ignite West Indies Women, and India Women crushed them by 57 runs in the fifth and final One-day International yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – A match which promised much ended in a no result, after rain wiped-out a crucial Caribbean Twenty20 contest between Trinidad & Tobago and Hampshire yesterday.

Dwayne Bravo and Keiron Pollard have opted to miss the current regional T20 cricket series but T&T Cricket Board (TTCB) boss Azim Bassarath says they will be eligible to play, if T&T reaches the Champions League in October.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – Former captain Mashrafe Mortaza  will not take part in next month’s World Cup after the injured  fast bowler was left out of Bangladesh’s 15-man squad named yesterday.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Guyanese batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan  has been recalled to the West Indies squad for the World Cup  starting on the Indian sub-continent next month, the West Indies  Cricket Board said today.

President of the East Bank Demerara Cricket Association (EBDCA) and co-opted member of the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB), Rohan Sarjoo yesterday denied that he was involved in the acid attack on treasurer of the DCB Pretipaul Jaigobin last year.

The two factions of the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) once again clashed yesterday in deciding on the location for Saturday’s Annual General Meeting and over the allocated delegates for the member associations.

Cricket fans in Guyana will be unable to see the remaining matches of the current CaribbeanT20 cricket tournament.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A rampant Jamaica side crushed Somerset by 61 runs here yesterday, defying rain and a reduction in overs to make a winning start to the second leg of the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship.

Defending champions Guyana ended their preliminary round of the West Indies Cricket Board T20 tournament with a nail-biting defeat to the Windward Islands at the Kensington Oval in Barbados late last night.

Attempts are being made to field a media women’s softball cricket team in the upcoming Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company Limited in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, 10/10 softball tournament which bowls off next month.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – Yusuf Pathan blazed a  half-century but India still had to call on their tailenders to  clinch victory over South Africa by two wickets in the third  one-day international at Newlands yesterday.

RAJKOT, India, CMC – Prolific teenager Stafanie Taylor missed out on a century as Mithali Raj converted hers to condemn West Indies women to a 10-run loss to India in the fourth One-Day International here yesterday.

MELBOURNE, Australia, CMC – Australia’s selectors yesterday announced their 15-man World Cup squad to challenge for their fourth successive title with no room found for Test pacer Peter Siddle.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – Batting stalwart Jacques  Kallis was named in South Africa’s World Cup squad on yesterday  despite missing the current series against India due to a rib  injury.

PERTH, Australia, CMC – Chris Gayle’s Western Australia trounced Dwayne Bravo’s Victoria by six wickets in the Twenty20 Big Bash yesterday but both players failed to spark with modest performances.

By Marlon Munroe The Amazon Conquerors find themselves in a must-win situation to secure a clear passage to the semi-final round of the Caribbean Twenty20 tournament when the Barbados round commences today.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England will go on from their  Ashes ‘annihilation’ of Australia to overtake India and South  Africa and become the world’s top-ranked test nation within 18  months, according to former captain Alec Stewart.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – India will gamble on the fitness  of Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir and Praveen  Kumar after the four injured players were included in the final  15-member squad yesterday for next month’s World Cup.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Former South Africa fast  bowler Allan Donald has accepted a temporary position as bowling  consultant to the New Zealand national team under recently  appointed head coach John Wright.