Cricket

Action in the Georgetown Cricket Association’s (GCA) Carib Beer/Friends of Cricket First Division two-day tournament bowls off today with two matches at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC)  and Eve Leary grounds.

CASTRIES, St Lucia,  CMC – Windward Islands batsman Johnson Charles is eyeing a full senior West Indies team selection after being named in a West Indies A squad to play against Pakistan A in two Twenty20 fixtures in Antigua early next month.

For the third weekend in a row, softball cricketer Hakim Majeed stroked a century, but this still could not lead the Success Masters Softball Cricket team to a win last Sunday when they played in a series of the General Marine Female and Male Over-40 Softball Competition.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – West Indies Cricket Board director Joel Garner will continue as manager of the West Indies team on their tour to Sri Lanka next month.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England captain Andrew Strauss  laughed off Australian pre-Ashes taunts yesterday and assured  the hosts that his men would hit the ground running for the  series starting in Brisbane next month.

—WICB President Hunte St John’s Antigua – Predicting ‘clear favourites’ in regional cricket is becoming increasingly perilous said President of the West Indies Cricket Board, Dr.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Lendl Simmons and the West Indies Players’ Association have both failed to meet with officials of the West Indies Cricket Board over outstanding issues.

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Some may quibble about its adequacy, but Shane Shillingford felt the WICB Regional One-day competition offered him valuable match practice ahead of the West Indies’ tour of Sri Lanka next month.

(Cricinfo) Another day, another batting collapse from Pakistan. They were shot out for 120 and it was too little to defend even for their talented bowling attack.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – The International Cricket Council (ICC) is hoping to convince India to adopt the Umpire Decision Review System as part of the world governing body’s push to make the practice a mandatory feature of all test series.

“It was the coming together of two champions,” according to Public Relations Officer of the Berbice Cricket Board(BCB) Hilbert Foster yesterday at the canteen of the Guyana Telephone & Telegraph (GT&T) company yesterday.

ROSEAU, Dominica,  CMC – West Indies Women’s all rounder Pearl Etienne has described her first stint with the team as a rewarding experience.

(Cricinfo) Lonwabo Tsotsobe and Johan Botha restricted Pakistan to 119 before Colin Ingram and JP Duminy revived the chase from a wobbly 26 for 3 with a 66-run partnership to push South Africa to victory in the first of the two Twenty20 games in Abu Dhabi.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Trinidad & Tobago will be coming harder than ever next year to regain some of the prestige they have lost, following a year in which they promised much, but delivered very little.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Organisers of the World Masters Tournament have postponed the event out of respect for the passing of late Barbados Prime Minister David Thompson.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Russell Latapy has fortified Trinidad & Tobago’s men’s national team with the selection of four overseas-based players for the second round of the Digicel Caribbean Cup to be staged from November 2 to 6 at the Hasely Crawford Stadium here.

NOTTINGHAM, England, CMC – Trent Bridge will be one of the stops on West Indies’ tour of England in two years time.

-cites lack of transparency and apprehension at working among power-hungry people as reasonsBy Marlon Munroe While acid burnt Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Assistant Treasurer Pretipaul Jaigobin is back at work at the Ministry of Finance, his work at the GCB is uncertain as he is apprehensive about working among “power-hungry persons.”

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The Indian trio of Vangipurappu Laxman, Gautam Gambhir and Ishant Sharma have returned from injury to bolster the team for next month’s three-match test series against New Zealand.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – Ryan Hinds has dismissed suggestions that his Barbados side have become chokers.