Australia can win Twenty20 World Cup, says Clarke
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia can win the Twenty20 World Cup this month, test captain Michael Clarke said yesterday, even if they are ranked ninth in the world and will have to do it without him.
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia can win the Twenty20 World Cup this month, test captain Michael Clarke said yesterday, even if they are ranked ninth in the world and will have to do it without him.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Nobody said it to his face but when All India Football Federation (AIFF) president Praful Patel said last week India’s goal was to qualify for the 2022 World Cup finals in Qatar, his sunny optimism bordered on grim absurdity.
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson, once notorious for his bad boy antics, has a new goal: he’d like to dance and act in musicals.
SYDNEY (Reuters) – French Open winner Maria Sharapova will join US Open champions Serena Williams and Andy Murray in warming up for next year’s Australian Open at the Brisbane International, organizers said yesterday.
LONDON (Reuters) – World road race champion Mark Cavendish lost the overall lead of the Tour of Britain yesterday as Marc de Maar recovered from a crash near the end to win the fifth stage in Stoke.
National senior sprint champion Rupert Perry had his first run on home soil yesterday since returning from a High Performance Training Centre in Jamaica and easily qualified for the men’s 200 metres finals of the Guyana Defence Force annual athletics championships.
By Emmerson Campbell A 2-3 defeat by El Salvador Tuesday night at the Providence National Stadium put paid to the Golden Jaguars hopes of qualifying past the third round of the 2014 football World Cup Qualifiers.
Pepsi Sonics basketball Club will lather this month stage a first and third division tournaments at the outdoor Burnham Basketball Court.
The Berbice Volleyball Association (BVA) donated an International Volleyball Federation (IVF) net and other gear to the Mibicuri Primary School in keeping with its mandate to promote the sport in that county.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC – Talismanic opener Chris Gayle has backed West Indies to reach the final of the World Twenty20 Champion-ship.
Six coaches – Michael Hyles-Franco, Renwick Batson, Delbert Hicks, Winston Smith, Julian Moore and Adrian Amsterdam – were last weekend honored in the annual Tribute to Coaches Programme held by the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) at the board’s office, Cheddi Jagan Street, New Amsterdam.
St John’s, Antigua – In light of a statement reported in the media as being attributed to the West Indies Players Association relating to the Ramnaresh Sarwan arbitration matter, the WICB deems it necessary to allow the public the benefit of the full facts.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC-The Jamaica Government has announced plans to stage ‘scaled down’ celebrations for members of the team which participated in the London Olympics last month.
Experienced golfer Carlos Adams found his rhythm to cart off his first major tournament for 2012 with victory in the Annual El Dorado Medal Play Golf tournament played over the weekend at the Lusignan Golf Course.
Rupert Perry has admitted that in posting the fastest time in the 200m preliminary on his return to track after a six-month hiatus yesterday at the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Inter Unit Championships held at the GDF ground Camp Ayanganna, his only intention was to test his peed.
By Iva Wharton The Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) continues to face an uphill battle to attract females in large numbers to the sport.
(Reuters) – England will depart for their Twenty20 World Cup defence in Sri Lanka in good heart after squaring the three-match series against South Africa with an emphatic 28-run win at Edgbaston yesterday.
COLOMBO, (Reuters) – West Indies’ opening batsman Chris Gayle rates the bowling of fellow Jamaican Usain Bolt and reckons the six-times Olympic gold medallist has what it takes to excel at the game.
Secretary of the Guyana Amateur Power-lifting Federation (GAPF) Gordon Spencer was one of two lucky fans attending the Guyana/El Salvador World Cup Qualifying game who won Caribbean Airlines (CAL) return tickets to New York.
(Reuters) – Argentina’s Sergio Martinez is set to fight WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.
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