Cricket

Results from Sunday’s Guyana Floodlights Softball Cricket Association Bakewell 10/10 tournament.

The Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) and the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) will clash this weekend in one of two Carib Beer/Friends of Cricket Heroes Cup first-division matches.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – A Marlon Samuels half-century was not enough to save West Indies from defeat, as Bangladesh captain Mushfiqur Rahim produced a superb unbeaten 41, to fire his side to a three-wicket win with a ball to spare in the one-off Twenty20 International here yesterday.

(Reuters) – Cricket Australia (CA) has hit back at allegations Australian players are involved in match-fixing, saying the claims made by a sports agent were “baseless and outlandish”.

Top Indian cricketers Yuvraj Singh and Harbhajan Singh yesterday rubbished the reported claims of a London-based bookie Mazhar Majeed that he had “access” to them, saying that they had never even met him.

(Reuters) The ICC Champions Trophy is likely to give way for a Test Championship.

HAMILTON, Bermuda,  CMC – Guyana’s head coach Jamaal Shabazz says flight cancellations and administrative problems have put his table-topping team on the back foot ahead of their CONCACAF World Cup Group B match against Bermuda at the National Sports Centre last night.

Co-defending Regional limited overs champions the Leeward Islands, who tied with Barbados at Sabina Park in last year’s final, and the Windward Islands are expected to arrive in Guyana today for their acclimatization camp ahead of the Regional Super50 one-day tournament scheduled to bowl off from October 19 – 29.

The East Bank Cricket Board (EBCB) is inviting all Under-17 cricketers in the area to gather at the Diamond Cricket Ground today at 4:45pm for a meeting.

(Cricinfo) It’s been a tough year for Bangladesh. After convincing home one-day series wins against New Zealand and Zimbabwe last year, which helped them go above West Indies in the ICC one-day international rankings, many expected 2011 to be the year Bangladesh would permanently shed the “minnow” tag.

The final day of the two matches on display, Carib Beer/Friends of Cricket Heroes Cup, two-day, first-division club cricket competition, ended in draws at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) Ground and Police Sports Club, Eve Leary, on Sunday.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – Resurgent stroke-maker Marlon Samuels is anxiously looking forward to the limited overs and Test series against Bangladesh after his superb, unbeaten century in a Twenty20 tour match on Sunday.

(Reuters) Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ijaz Butt has left for Dubai to attend the ICC’s executive board meeting even as a decision on his extension is expected to be taken in the next 48 hours.

By Iva Wharton Last Saturday softball players from Suriname lost thousands of dollars in cash and other valuables in a larceny incident while they were on the field at the Everest Cricket Club, Carifesta Avenue, in a match against their Guyanese counterparts.

Guyana’s golfers performed creditably at the recently held RBC/RBTT Suriname Open tournament played at the Paramaribo Golf Club.

(Reuters) The possibility of converting the 2013 Champions Trophy to a Test Championship and its Presidential nomination and election process is on top of agenda at International Cricket Council ICC Executive Board’s fourth and final meeting of the year which began here yesterday.

(Reuters) A Pakistani court has released on bail Muhammad Ebrahim, a suspect charged with involvement in the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore in March 2009.

CHENNAI, India, IANS-CMC – Kieron Pollard will square off with West Indies counterpart Chris Gayle in today’s Champions League Twenty20 final after his Mumbai Indians beat English county Somerset by 10 runs in the second semi-final of the lucrative tournament here yesterday.

Co-defending Regional limited overs champions the Leeward Islands (who tied with Barbados at Sabina Park in last year’s final) and the Windward Islands are expected to arrive in Guyana this weekend in order to have an early acclimatisation camp ahead of the Regional Super50 one-day tournament which is scheduled to bowl off in Guyana on  October 18.

The  Guyana Floodlights Softball Cricket Association  organized Bakewell Countrywide Male open 15/15,Male over 40 yrs 25/25,and female 10/10 softball tournament continues today at various venues.