Sports

A FIESTY debate has broken out in English cricket over the past few weeks.

Jude Bentley was the winner of the senior category of the Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF) Time Trials held yesterday.

DONETSK, (Reuters) – Holders Spain set up a European Championship semi-final with Iberian rivals Portugal after an uninspiring 2-0 win over France yesterday which featured yet another headed goal but prompted boos from a sometimes bored crowd.

(BBC) Ireland’s one-day international against Australia at Stormont was abandoned yesterday  after only 10.4 overs of play because of bad weather.

(Reuters) – One of the jurors who convicted Jerry Sandusky on 45 child sex abuse charges said on Saturday that the former Penn State assistant football coach seemed to accept the verdict as a confirmation.

GALLE, (Reuters) – Kumar Sangakkara missed out on a double hundred by one run but his team ended the second day of the first test on a high with Pakistan reeling at 48 for five at the close yesterday.

The National Community Basketball League (NCBL) will shift to Linden this evening once again as the final quarterfinal game between Western Union Central Mackenzie and Kwakwani tips off at the Mackenzie Sports Club Hard Courts from 19:00hrs.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Temperamental left-arm spinner Sulieman Benn says his 15 months on the sidelines has not dented his hunger for competitive cricket.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Serena Williams has good news for women’s tennis – she has no plans to quit the sport and neither, as far as she knows, does sister Venus.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Barbadian Jonathan Carter says he feels under no pressure to live up to expectations of being an all-rounder, after producing some golden spells during the just concluded unofficial three-Test series against India A.

NOTTINGHAM, England,  CMC – Embattled West Indies will wrap up a strife-filled two-month tour of England here today, hoping they can finally break out of their wretched slump with a win in the lone Twenty20 International at Trent Bridge.

By Iva Wharton Hosororo Secondary School,  despite their 11-0 defeat  to Region One defending champions Port Kaituma yesterday,  are through to today’s fional where they will face Santa Rosa Secondary  at the Settlement Ground, Mabaruma.

By Emmerson Campbell Three games, three wins, eight scored goals, no problem.

ATHENS/GDANSK, (Reuters) – Germany humiliated Greece in the Euro 2012 soccer tournament yesterday, rubbing salt in the wounds of a nation reeling from a dire economic crisis which many blame on Berlin.

GALLE, Sri Lanka,  (Reuters) – Tillakaratne Dilshan and Kumar Sangakkara struck fluent centuries as the Sri Lankan top order punished Pakistan’s wayward bowlers on the opening day of the first test yesterday.

By Iva Wharton Hosororo Secondary School’s football team will today oppose Region One champions Port Kaituma in the second round of the Digicel Schools tournament at the Settlement Ground, Mabaruma after whipping Wauna Secondary 5-0 yesterday.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – West Indies A team manager Colin Borde wants young Test opener Kieran Powell to make the most of his appointment as captain for the Twenty20 doubleheader against India A this weekend.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Former Pakistan and Essex leg-spinner Danish Kaneria was banned for life by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) on Friday after being found guilty of corruption.

LEEDS, England,  CMC – West Indies’ quest to salvage pride from a wretched One-Day International series ended in disappointment when persistent rain washed out the third and final game, without a ball bowled here yesterday.

Says Donald Duff “Not one, not two, not three….”  With those famous words basketball superstar LeBron James, in promising to win multiple NBA titles for the Miami Heat, created a burden of expectations for himself and for the Heat basketball fans who had seen their franchise win only once before in 2006 after being formed in 1988 so huge that he had difficulty in fulfilling it.