Kolkata Knight Riders, the IPL champions, became the first side to be knocked out of the Champions League Twenty20 when their third game, against Perth Scorchers yesterday was washed out in Durban with only 14 overs having been bowled in the first innings.
The underdogs Auckland Aces’ three wins out of three in the Champions League T20 was one of the developing feel-good stories of a tournament which is widely seen as being overrun by the cash-rich teams from the IPL.
-Digicel honours commitment to sponsor tourney The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) national schools championships will get underway tomorrow at the National Gymnasium following yesterday’s sealing of the sponsorship deal between the communications giants and the GTTA.
By Iva Wharton Ketley Primary School will play its first match of the Courts Pee Wee championships on Saturday and according to Coach Philip Ferdinand they are in it to win it.
(Reuters) – Tournament host Tiger Woods will be joined by two reigning major champions in what he regards as one of the deepest fields ever seen at the World Challenge, to be played from Nov.
Says Emmerson Campbell This year’s sixth annual ‘Ride for Life’ five-stage road race cycling event which concluded on Sunday was without a doubt the best one so far.
Robert Hanoman rolled back the years in a tight race to triumph in the King’s Jewellery World sponsored Medal Play golf tournament as four players ended on net 68 recently at the Lusignan golf Club.
(Reuters) – Members of the British cycling team Sky will be sacked unless they sign a document saying they have never doped, the team said yesterday.
KARACHI, Pakistan, CMC-Three former West Indies cricketers have been included on a world X1 to play two Twenty/20 matches against a Pakistan all star team in Karachi, officials have announced.
– cites “seemingly insurmountable evidence” AUSTIN, Texas, (Reuters) – Lance Armstrong yesterday stepped down as chairman of the charity he founded to distance the cancer patient-support organization from the widening doping scandal that promises to cost him his seven Tour de France cycling titles.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Eighteen days of international one-day cricket will provide an aperitif for next year’s Ashes series in England with the world governing body hoping to capitalise on West Indies’ success in the Twenty20 World Cup.
A campaign that started by promising much ended yesterday by disappointing many when the Golden Jaguars crashed to a 0-7 defeat in their final group B game of the 2014 World Cup qualifiers at the Estadio Nacional, San Jose, Costa Rica last night.
National junior chess champion Haifeng Su remained unbeaten after three rounds of the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) Closed national junior championships following play of Saturday and Sunday.
Nineteen year-old national junior 200m champion Elton Bollers has confirmed his participation in the University of Guyana’s (UG) Track and Field Championships will be held this Thursday and Friday on campus at the UG ball field.
Half a decade ago, he was fastest junior athlete on local shores, representing Guyana at nearly every junior local and international meet then he prematurely put away his spikes and called it quits for his athletic career.
By Yonalla Dalrymple The organizing committee of the annual Inter Market Futsal Tournament which was scheduled for the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) has decided to cancel the tournament owing to the unavailability of the venue.
The Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) under the stewardship of former West Indies all-rounder Roger Harper is moving full speed ahead with its programmes as the year comes to a close.
Newlands witnessed its second consecutive one-sided game yesterday as Sydney Sixers needed just 8.5 overs to breeze past Yorkshire’s 96 and give the county side the rudest of welcomes to the main draw.
The asking rate for Lions hit 10 an over at the end of the seventh over, they had no momentum and they looked rather like cubs in the headlights, but over the next 13 overs they kept up with the rate without a hint of panic.
The formidable Ravens withstood the defensive pressure, explosive fast-break game and deadly three-point shooting of the new-look Colts to win the Pepsi Sonics Basketball Club ‘Refresh your Games’ tournament on Sunday night at the Burnham Basketball Court.
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