Sports

The West Side Mashramani football tournament will kick off today at the Den Amstel Ground with a double header from 6pm.

Sports Coordinator of the Police Progressive Youth Club (PPYC) Developmental Meet, Lyndon Wilson said today’s scheduled meet has been postponed.

Guyana’s two-time national squash champion Alexander Arjoon was recently named Athlete of the Week at the Franklin and Marshall (F&M) College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in the United States of America (USA).

The Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) will hold its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on March 7 at 18:30hrs at the club’s premises, 17 Thomas Road, Thomas Lands, Georgetown.

This time it wasn’t an embarrassment perpetuated by the West Indies Players Association (WIPA), rather one the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) brought directly upon itself.

HARARE, Zimbabwe, CMC – Zimbabwe left for the Caribbean yesterday, bracing for an onslaught from the West Indies pace attack in the upcoming Test and one-day series.

MIRPUR, Bangladesh,  CMC – West Indies opener Chris Gayle returned to form with a spectacular hundred for Dhaka Gladiators on Friday, to fire them into the final of the Bangladesh Premier League here.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Kirk Edwards gained a timely boost of form and confidence with his fifth first-class hundred to put Barbados in charge early against Guyana in the Regional 4-Day Tournament yesterday here.

In some circles it’s Fashion Week in New York, but in other ovals it’s different striding along the lanes – it’s Millrose Games in New York, where young track star Kadecia Baird returns later today to fashion another ‘trend’ on the stage that launched her international recognition in the track world.

The semi-finals of the Guinness Greatest of the Streets East Coast edition will take place today at the Haslington Market Square with two mouth watering fixtures.

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) has said the late cricketer and professor Aubrey Bishop will be remembered for many things among them being the style with which he brought to the sport.

DOHA, (Reuters) – Serena Williams showed tennis was not just the domain of teenagers as she climbed back to the top of the world rankings yesterday, becoming the oldest female to hold the coveted position at the age of 31.

The Milo U20 schools football competition will continue today and tomorrow at the Ministry of Education Ground Carifesta Avenue beginning at noon.

PRETORIA,  (Reuters) – South African ‘Blade Runner’ Oscar Pistorius, the double amputee who became one of the biggest names in world athletics, broke down in tears yesterday after he was charged in court with shooting dead his girlfriend in his Pretoria home.

Golfers will battle for top honours today in the annual Stag Beer Mashramani tournament at the Lusignan Golf Club.

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – Middle order batsman Jason Mohammed stroked an important half-century to prop up Trinidad and Tobago on the opening day of their first Regional Four-Day Championship clash against Windward Islands here yesterday.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC-Jamaica’s sprint legend Merlene Ottey has announced plans to compete in this summer’s IAAF World Championships in Moscow, almost 30 years after her first appearance at the event in 1983.

Tariq Saunders yesterday won the boys’ 11 years and under title of the annual Mashramani table tennis competition at the National Gymnasium when he defeated Terrence Rausch in the final by three games to one.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC- Members of Trinidad and Tobago’s 2006 World Cup squad are planning to sue National Security Minister Jack Warner over his role as former special adviser and controller of the Federation’s finances.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – Pakistan off-spinner Saeed Ajmal ripped through South Africa’s batting to leave them reeling on 139 for five at the end of a controversial second day in the second test at Newlands yesterday.