Sports

From Clifton  Ross in Trinidad Trinidad and Tobago yesterday suffered a 17-run defeat to Barbados in the final of the 2014 West Indies Cricket Board (WICB)/NAGICO Regional Super 50 tournament  in a thrilling  encounter at the Queen’s Park Oval, Trinidad.

Former Guyana Open champion, Mike Mangal was declared winner of the inaugural Noble House Memorial Cup golf tournament yesterday at the Lusignan Golf Course.

Renowned for its cultural exploits locally, Hits and Jams Entertainment will now look to provide recreation in the arena of sport.

DESCRIBED by the West Indies Cricket Board as “the legendary Pakistan off-spinner”, Saqlain Mushtaq has been added to the team’s coaching staff for the couple of Twenty20s and the solitary One-Day International against Ireland in Jamaica at the end of the week.

President of the GOA, KA.Juman Yassin revealed the names of Guyana’s representatives for the South American Games in Chile and also disclosed that the Queen’s Baton will be arriving in Guyana on March 2.

The three-night, four nation Goodwill Boxing Tournament got off to a scorcher Friday evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall and the locals did not disappoint as they delivered a knockout night of boxing.

The nation’s best wheelsmen will be on their saddles again today competing for lucrative cash prizes when Roraima Bikers Club (RBC) teams up with George Humphrey and Clifford ‘Toto’ Johnson to stage the eighth annual George Cumberbatch event.

Top seeds Narayan Ramdhani Nicholas Ali on Friday evening reached the men’s doubles final of the annual GUMDAC sponsored badminton tournament played at the Queen’s College badminton court.

Pretoria, (Reuters) – Mitchell Johnson bowled Australia to a comprehensive 281-run victory over South Africa after taking his match haul to 12 wickets on the fourth day of the first test at SuperSport Park on Saturday.

By Donald Duff The Lusignan Golf Club’s Noble House Memorial Cup golf tournament, aimed at honouring past stalwarts of the club is expected to get cracking today and will subsequently be held annually.

The Guyana Baseball League and E Networks yesterday announced plans to work together to further popularize the sport.

By Orin Davidson It’s been  three years since Guyana’s football has been rid of the Colin Klass -led Guyana Football Federation (GFF), but déjà vu is set  to  engulf the sport all over again, under the current administration.

NY, USA — These days, World Masters indoor sprint champion and record holder Val Barnwell feels like a ‘proud papa worthy of emulation’.

The officials along with the pugilists competing in the three-day, four-nation, International Goodwill tournament paid a courtesy call on the Minister of Sport yesterday before the competition boxed off last night.

Courts Guyana Inc. has once again lent its corporate support to sports associations.

WELLINGTON, (Reuters) – Shikhar Dhawan was dismissed agonisingly short of his third test century as India overhauled New Zealand’s first innings to reach 201 for five at lunch on the second day of the second test yesterday.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC-West Indies failed to press home an advantage against South Africa and crashed to a 94 run defeat in their opening game of the ICC Under-19 World Cup at Dubai’s International Cricket Stadium here yesterday.

(The Sports Xchange) – – – – Forward Taj Gibson scored 16 points and the Chicago Bulls finished on a 17-4 run to secure a 92-76 victory over the Brooklyn Nets at the United Center on Thursday.

By Clifton Ross in Trinidad and Tobago A menacing spell of fast-bowling from Fidel Edwards backed up by half-centuries from openers Kraigg Brathwaite and Dwayne Smith steered Barbados to the finals of the NAGICO Regional Super50 tournament, after sending Guyana Malta Supreme packing in a seven-wicket defeat.

A confident St. Lucian, three-man boxing team wrapped up their six-week preparation in Castries and arrived here last night to do battle in the International Goodwill Tournament which boxes off today at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.