SYDNEY, (Reuters) – The Champions League Twenty20 tournament, which has been run since 2009 by the cricket boards of India, Australia and South Africa, has been discontinued with immediate effect because of lack of interest.
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC-St. Lucia Zouks edged Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel by four wickets in a rain shortened thriller, the 23rd match of the Caribbean Premier League here Tuesday night.
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC- Captain of the St.Lucia Zouks Kevin Pietersen has praised “a good all round performance” by his team for allowing them to pull-off a thrilling last ball victory over Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel in match 23 of the Caribbean Premier League at the Queen’s Park Oval Tuesday night.
Guyana Amazon Warriors in-form batsman, Brad Hodge believes a good batting, bowling and fielding performance today will play a crucial role in the home team’s first match at home when they tackle the Jamaica Tallawahs in match 24 of the Hero CPL T20 tournament.
Guyana’s swimmers Onika George and Omar Adams failed to get past the first round of the heats of the 100m freestyle events while the men’s squash team was beaten by Argentina in the qualification round as action in this year’s Pan Am Games continued yesterday in Canada.
Jamaica Tallawahs all-rounder Andre Russell has described today’s encounter against the Amazon Warriors as “crucial” for his side as the visitors look to shrug off Sunday’s defeat against the same opponents in match 24 of the Hero CPL T20 today at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence.
With Guyana billed to stage the opening leg of the Inter-Guiana Games (IGG), the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) yesterday officially short-listed their boys and girls’ U19 squads yesterday for the event billed for August 6th-10th at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) level two coach Raynor `Copter’ Anderson in collaboration with the Guyana Table Tennis Association and Scotiabank recently commenced a table tennis training camp for beginners.
Second Ground Entertainment will stage its inaugural ‘Ballers in the Summer’ knockout street football tournament July 24-26 at the Pouderoyen Tarmac, West Demerara.
(Reuters) – A U.S. Senate panel invited FIFA President Sepp Blatter to answer questions at a hearing today about the corruption scandal that has badly tarnished soccer’s global governing body but FIFA declined on his behalf, a congressional official said.
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC-Football’s world governing body FIFA is threatening to penalize the Dominica Football Association (DFA) if it proceeds with plans to resolve a dispute in the local court.
LUZERN, Switzerland, CMC- Asafa Powell sprinted away from the field in the final stage to pull off another victory this season, the men’s 100m at the Spitzen Leichtathletik meet in Luzern, Switzerland yesterday.
SCARBOROUGH, Tobago, CMC-Windward Islands demolished Leewards Islands by 207 runs to win the Regional U17 cricket tournament which climaxed here yesterday.
LONDON, CMC- British Police are investigating threats against Jamaican born English footballer Raheem Sterling who is on the verge of an expensive transfer from Liverpool to Manchester City.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Australia wicketkeeper Brad Haddin will not play in the second test against England at Lord’s due to family reasons, Cricket Australia said yesterday.
LA PIERRE ST MARTIN, France, (Reuters) – One by one, with the exception of Nairo Quintana, Chris Froome’s rivals were dropped from a thinning group of challengers up the gruelling final climb of yesterday’s 10th stage of the Tour de France.
MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Australia handed James Faulkner a four-match suspension yesterday after the all-rounder was charged with drink-driving in Britain this month.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – A panel appointed by India’s top court yesterday recommended that the franchise owners of two Indian Premier League teams be suspended for two years following a cricket corruption scandal.
HARARE, (Reuters) – A maiden century from Kedar Jadhav helped India complete a clean-sweep of the three-match one-day International series in Zimbabwe with an 83-run victory at Harare Sports Club yesterday.
LONDON, (Reuters) – The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) has urged the sport’s ruling body to try to get the game’s Twenty20 international format into the Olympics.