Sports

The inaugural Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Premier League will continue today with eight fixtures at four venues around the country.

The second annual Digicel Breast Cancer Awareness road race featuring the cream of Guyana’s wheelsmen is just one day away.

The Roberts Champions Boxing Gym amateur card billed for November 9 received a timely shot in the arm yesterday when the Hand in Hand Mutual Fire and Life Insurance Company became a sponsor for the event.

Guyana A table tennis team played unbeaten to win a specially arranged Goodwill table tennis series recently in Suriname.

BRIDGETOWN Barbados, CMC- Top West Indies cricketer Stafanie Taylor says she is anticipating a large turnout of spectators at Kensington Oval to witness the finals of the Women’s Twenty20 International Tri-nations series between the regional side and England tonight.

MIAMI, CMC-West Indies middle order batsman Marlon Samuels has welcomed the team building exercise taking place in Florida ahead of tours to India and New Zealand.

The fifth round of the Petra Organization/ Courts Guyana in collaboration with Banks DIH Limited Pee Wee U11 football tourney will commence today at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue with eight slated fixtures.

ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – China’s Li Na made it a hat-trick of White Group victories, overpowering back-injury victim Victoria Azarenka 6-2 6-1 yesterday to march through to the semi-finals of the WTA Championship.

Beach Football in Guyana has received a major boost with the Bayroc Cool Runnings Beach Football Club being awarded a community grounds development programme grant of approximately one million dollars from the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Surrounded by thousands of makeshift tents in the dusty refugee camp he called home, not even in his wildest dreams could Mohammad Nabi have believed that his decision to while away the hours with a miniature cricket bat would lead him to play in the 2015 World Cup.

ST.JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC- Former Pakistan head coach, Richard Pybus, has been appointed as the Director of Cricket to the West Indies Cricket Board, a statement released by WICB has said.

(Reuters) – Roger Federer ended Grigor Dimitrov’s seven-match winning streak and showed the Bulgarian he has some way to go to live up to his ‘Baby Federer’ tag with a 6-3 7-6 (2) quarter-final victory at the Basel Open yesterday.

(The Sports Xchange) – Hall of Famer Bill Sharman died yesterday, his wife told the Los Angeles Times.

(Reuters) – South Africa’s pursuit of a series-levelling victory against Pakistan was marred on the third day of the second test in Dubai when they were penalised five runs for ball tampering yesterday.

(Reuters) – FIFA president Sepp Blatter has hit back at his critics, saying he was no “ruthless parasite sucking the lifeblood out of football” and arguing the profits his organisation earn are ploughed back into the global game.

The South Turkeyen Sports Committee in collaboration with Bannas Foundation will be hosting a five-aside football and penalty shoot-out competition tomorrow at the National Gymnasium Tarmac on Mandela Avenue from 9:30hrs.

(Reuters) – The two-test series between Bangladesh and New Zealand ended in a draw after the fifth day of play in the second and final match in Mirpur was abandoned due to rain yesterday.

(Reuters) – South African batsman AB de Villiers defended team mate Faf du Plessis yesterday after the fielder was caught ball tampering during the second test against Pakistan in Dubai and his side handed a five-run penalty.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC- A chemist employed with the government, Carey Brown, is the new executive director of the Jamaican Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO).

(Reuters) – South African batsman AB de Villiers defended team mate Faf du Plessis today after the fielder was caught ball tampering during the second test against Pakistan in Dubai and his side handed a five-run penalty.