Sports

Runner-up Junior Sportswoman of the Year, Priyanna Ramdhani secured Guyana’s only gold medal when the Suriname International Easter badminton tournament, played at the Walter Amo Sports Hall, concluded on Sunday.

Port of Spain, Trinidad  – West Indies cricket players, a Boeing 767 jet, Trinidad Carnival dancers, several musical artistes and a monkey named Chico all feature in the Caribbean Premier League’s TV advertising campaign which will be unveiled shortly and aired around the world in the lead up to the tournament which takes place in July and August.

Jamaica Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has congratulated fellow Jamaican Whycliffe ‘Dave’ Cameron on being elected president of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB).  

Noble House Seafoods yesterday made a donation to the Amateur Athletics Association of Guyana.

(The Sports Xchange) – Since the Grizzlies won a 2011 Western Conference series over the Spurs, San Antonio has been virtually perfect against Memphis.

(BBC) New Zealand cricketer Jesse Ryder has told police that he has no recollection of being attacked outside a bar.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – Stephen Mangongo will coach Zimbabwe in their home series against Bangladesh this month and has promised sweeping changes from the side who lost in West Indies.

NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – Local hero Shaunae Miller ran a Championship record to complete the impressive 200/400 metres double on yesterday’s final day of the 42nd CARIFTA Games here at the Thomas A Robinson Stadium.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts,  CMC – Barbados needed less than two hours on yesterday’s final day to crush Leeward Islands by an innings and 31 runs and storm into the semi-finals of the Regional Four-Day Championship.

NASSAU, Bahamas,  CMC – Powerhouses Jamaica again topped the medals table for yet another year when the 42nd edition of the CARIFTA Games ended here at the Thomas A Robinson Stadium last night.

The final of the third annual Camptown Football Classic hosted by Gordon Van Rossum will take place today at the Camptown Football Ground, Campbellville with tournament hosts Camptown FC engaging Pele FC at 20:00hrs.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana,  CMC – Guyana won their first match of the Regional Four-Day Championship when they brushed aside Combined Campuses and Colleges by 46 runs here today.

Middle distance star Cassey George and junior sprint sensation Tirana Mitchell won medals on yesterday’s final day of the XLII CARIFTA Games at the Thomas Robinson Stadium in The Bahamas enabling Guyana to walk away from the meet with a total of six medals.

Combined Campuses and Colleges (CCC) chasing 240 to win slumped to 114 for six at the close of play on the third day of their sixth round match in the Regional Four-Day Championship against Guyana at the National Stadium at Providence.

The prospects for cricket in the Caribbean are now excellent following the election of Dave Cameron to the post of president of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) says a former WICB Director.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – Five-time champions Jamaica shot to the top of the Regional Four-Day Championship standings when they inflicted a humbling 93-run defeat on Trinidad and Tobago here  yesterday.

(BBC) Australia captain Michael Clarke was hospitalised on Sunday, suffering with gastroenteritis.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Hundreds by opener Kraigg Brathwaite and all-rounder Kevin Stoute, followed by a lethal burst from left-arm spinner Sulieman Benn, left Leeward Islands in danger of an innings defeat in the Regional Four-Day Championship here yesterday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Unprecedented levels of skill, intensity and endurance have transformed global sport into spectacular mass entertainment and handsomely rewarded its leading exponents.

KOLKATA, India, CMC – Delhi Daredevils’ West Indies all-rounder Andre Russell said Monday he hoped to play a bigger role in latest edition of the Indian Premier League starting tomorrow, after hardly featuring his first stint in the multi-million dollar Twenty20 tournament last year.