CAVE HILL, Barbados, CMC – An explosive, maiden first-class hundred from Shacaya Thomas combined with another destructive spell from off-spinner Ryan Austin put Combined Campuses and Colleges in a superior position against Guyana in the Regional Four-Day Championship on Saturday.
Queen’s College mauled North Georgetown Secondary 5-0 when the round of the 16 knockout matches in the Milo/Petra Organization Schools Football tournament commenced yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.
Upsets would highlight the second day of the round of 16 knockout stage as Bishops’ High defeated North Ruimveldt Secondary 4-3 on penalty kicks after normal time ended 3-3, when the Milo/Petra Organization Schools Football tournament continued yesterday Captain Nathaniel King would open the scoring for the Carmichael Street side with a 12th minute effort.
DhAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – Title-holders West Indies produced an anaemic all-round performance to crash to a seven wicket loss to India, as the defence of their World Twenty20 title hit an immediate snag here yesterday.
The Pepsi Hornets shut out the UG Wolves by handing them a stinging 38-nil defeat when the Bounty Farm 15s rugby tournament continued yesterday at the National Park.
Alpha United got their Caribbean Football Union (CFU) club championships campaign off to a positive start by defeating Defence Force of Trinidad and Tobago 2-0 on Friday at the Harbour View Stadium, Harbour View in Jamaica.
MIRPUR, Bangladesh, (Reuters) – A lionhearted effort by Pakistan’s bowlers powered the 2009 champions to a 16-run win over Australia in a high-scoring World Twenty20 match in Mirpur yesterday.
CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – South Africa captain Faf du Plessis will undergo a fitness test before today’s World Twenty20 match against New Zealand after missing the opening game with a hamstring injury, Cricket South Africa said yesterday.
DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – West Indies lost their opening match of the World Twenty20 Championship after producing a limp performance to go down by seven wickets to India, at the Shere Bangla National Stadium here today.
DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – A confident West Indies will launch the defence of their World Twenty20 title when they clash with powerhouses India in mouth-watering clash here today.
The Combined Campuses and Colleges team were 224-3 at press time on the second day of their day/night match of the West Indies Cricket Board’s regional four day competition at the 3Ws ground in Barbados.
Despite a calf strain that forced favourite Tevin Garraway out of the final of the boys’ Under-20 100m,the first day of the CARIFTA trials to select Guyana’s top junior athletes to the Easter weekend games in Martinique saw some scintillating performances.
A second half surge by the rampant Caribs enabled them to pull away from the Guyana Defence Force to earn a convincing 47-22 victory when the Bounty Farm 15s rugby tournament continued at the National Park yesterday.
As the saying goes tonight’s Road to Mecca Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation Inter Club championships grand finale at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall could be anybody’s game or put it another way either team can triumph.
A hard-fought BK Western Tigers 2-0 win over Milerock FC Friday night was overshadowed by a fight between Western Tigers’ Ryan Asolph and Milerock’s Mark Moses when the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) National Premier League continued at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground, Bourda on Friday.
(Reuters) – Lasith Malinga and Nuwan Kulasekara held their nerve in the death overs with miserly fast bowling as Sri Lanka beat South Africa by five runs in their World Twenty20 opener at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong yesterday.
Guyana’s world ranked squash player Nicolette Fernandes last week received the Women’s Squash Association’s (WSA) 2013 Sportsmanship Award in Malaysia.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Romel Currency and Tyrone Theophile stroked half-centuries to give Windward Islands the upper hand over Jamaica, in their fourth round, Regional Four-Day clash here yesterday.
DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – West Indies captain Darren Sammy has hit back at criticism from India’s Suresh Raina that the Caribbean side are only capable of hitting sixes, and suffer from their inability to rotate the strike.
Provided they can turn their attention away from events in Bangladesh, and the encouraging warm-up results by both men’s and women’s teams in the World T20, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) directors were scheduled to discuss a vital issue at their meeting in Trinidad over the weekend.
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