NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Afghanistan and Zimbabwe reaped the benefit of some tight death bowling to both register 14-run victories yesterday and boost their prospects of making the World Twenty20 main draw.
COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s World Twenty20 title defence suffered a jolt on the day the tournament gets underway with Lasith Malinga’s slow recovery from a knee injury forcing the fast bowler to hand over captaincy to Angelo Mathews.
KOLKATA, India, CMC – West Indies captain Darren Sammy said yesterday the contracts impasse with the West Indies Cricket Board was a thing of the past and stressed the squad was now fully focused on winning the Twenty20 World Cup.
KOLKATA, India, CMC-West Indies captain Darren Sammy is banking on replacement players to step-up when the regional side begin their campaign in the World T20 tournament next Tuesday.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC-The defending champions of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Club Championship, Trinidad and Tobago’s Central FC Sharks, are struggling to raise the money to fund their trip to Jamaica to participate in the Group Three play-offs this week.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Enigmatic opener Kieran Powell appeared poised to make a dramatic return to first class cricket next weekend, two years after mysteriously bowing out of the regional spotlight.
COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s World Twenty20 title defence suffered a jolt on the day the tournament gets underway with Lasith Malinga’s slow recovery from a knee injury forcing the fast bowler to hand over captaincy to Angelo Mathews.
It was a night of upset wins as the Guyana Defence Force and Buxton United defeated Pele and Georgetown Football Club respectively when the League Finale section of the GFF Stag Beer Elite League continued on Sunday.
Defending champs Pacesetters as well as inaugural winner Ravens stormed their way into the quarterfinal round when the 3rd Annual GABF Road to Mecca National Club Championship continued on Sunday.
KOLKATA, India, CMC – West Indies arrived here early yesterday from Dubai to begin their final preparations for the Twenty20 World Cup set to bowl off here today.
Guyana’s FIFA Referee Assessor Roy McArthur will depart local shores shortly for the Jamaica to assess a 2018 World Cup Qualifier between the home side and Costa Rica.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Cricket’s world governing body (ICC) said on Monday that its anti-corruption unit was probing the Hong Kong team but ruled out any match-fixing angle to its investigation.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – West Indies will enter the Twenty20 World Cup in India second in the ICC rankings, with the hosts installed as the top-ranked side heading into the March 8 to April 3 global event.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Off-spinner Ashley Nurse says the preparation camp which ended here Sunday has left West Indies in high spirits, heading into the Twenty20 World Cup starting in India next week.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova, the highest-paid woman in sports, said yesterday that she failed a drug test at the Australian Open due to a substance she has been taking for 10 years for health issues.
(Reuters) – Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning bid an emotional farewell to the National Football League yesterday after an 18-year career that established him as one of the game’s greatest quarterbacks.
MUMBAI, (Reuters) – The International Cricket Council’s anti-corruption unit has prevented a potential spot-fixing scandal and is investigating an international team for alleged attempts to manipulate future matches, the chief of the unit has said.