Sports

Defending champion West Ruimveldt, St. Pius, Marian Academy and Golden Grove secured convincing wins when the Courts Pee Wee Primary Schools Football competition continued yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

The Ballerz Entertainment coordinated GT Beer-sponsored 5-a-side Soft Shoe football competition will resume tonight at the Mocha Community Centre ground, East Bank Demerara.

A Most Valuable Player [MVP] performance from eventual awardee Anthonio Wallace, propelled Guyana Police Force to the Limacol football championships after they defeated Pouderoyen 4-2 Friday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Left-hander Nich-olas Pooran continued to excite the senses with a second straight half-century as Trinidad and Tobago Red Force strolled to their second successive victory of the Regional Super50, with a 35-run win over Guyana Jaguars here Friday night. 

RAJKOT, India, CMC – A familiar capitulation saw West Indies lose 14 wickets in just over two sessions, as India romped to an emphatic innings and 272-run victory inside three days of the opening Test here yesterday to record their largest-ever win in Tests. 

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Superstar Chris Gayle fittingly lowered the curtain on his domestic 50-overs career with an audacious hundred as Jamaica Scorpions brushed aside Barbados Pride by 33 runs in their Group B clash of the Regional Super50 here yesterday. 

RAJKOT, India, CMC – West Indies suffered a now familiar batting collapse after India captain Virat Kohli struck his 24th Test hundred and Ravindra Jadeja his first, as the Caribbean side left themselves with an enormous task of saving the opening Test after only the second day here yesterday. 

Junior national players Abosaide Cadogan and Kirstin Gomes continued their winning ways to work their way into the semi-finals of the Lucozade handicap squash tournament last evening at the Georgetown Club while senior national player Taylor Fernandes went down in her first bonafide match of the tournament. 

Enterprise Cricket Club will battle Strathavon in the final of the Bargain Supermarket T20 powered by Carib Beer as the curtains come down tomorrow at the Enmore Community Centre Ground.

The longstanding rivalry between Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) and Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) will be renewed when the two clash in the final of the sixth Georgetown Cricket Association/New Building Society second-division 40-overs tournament today at DCC, Queenstown.

Attorney-at-law Yolander Persaud has been elected by the 89th FIDE Congress to sit on the FIDE Ethics Commission effectively resulting in her becoming the first person from Guyana to hold a position on any FIDE committee.

Pacesetters basketball teams secured convincing wins in the first and Under-23 divisions when the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association [GABA] ‘League Championship’ continued on Thursday at the Burnham Court, Middle and Carmichael Streets.

The Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation [GABF] will be hosting the Under-18 Antilles 3×3 Basketball Championships from October 19th-21st at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, Homestretch Avenue.

RAJKOT, India, CMC – Former West Indies all-rounder Carl Hooper believes that the attraction of playing in the lucrative Indian Premier League (IPL) is deterring young cricketers in the region from wanting to play Test cricket.

The second round of matches in the Courts Pee Wee Primary Schools Football Championship will commence today at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

(Reuters) – Pakistan batsman Ahmed Shehzad has been banned for four months for violating anti-doping regulations after he tested positive for a prohibited substance in May, the country’s cricket board (PCB) said yesterday.

The impasse between four-time All-Star Jimmy Butler and the Minnesota Timberwolves continues with the season opener less than two weeks away.

TAROUBA, Trinidad, CMC – Lizelle Lee and Laura Wolvaardt both stroked commanding half-centuries to help South Africa defeat the West Indies in the fourth T20 at the Brian Lara Stadium here Thursday night and keep their hopes of levelling their T20 international series alive.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Oct 5, CMC – Leewards Islands Hurricanes’ fast-bowler Jeremiah Louis ripped through the Barbados Pride’s batting order with a five-wicket haul, but his efforts were in vain as persistent rains resulted in their Group B encounter in the Regional Super50 at Kensington Oval ending in a no-result on Thursday.

Seasoned campaigners Nyron Joseph and Abosaide Cadogan began their campaign in the 2018 edition of the Lucozade handicap squash tournament with contrasting wins at the Georgetown Club last evening.