Sports

Coach of the Bounty Colts basketball team, Philip Rockcliffe ‘One Foot’ George was laid to rest yesterday after a ceremony at the Our Lady of Fatima Cathedral on North Road which was attended by a large number of former players.

A one week long dominoes competition in honour of Mark `Jumbie’ Wiltshire’s 57th birth anniversary is set to commence tomorrow at three venues namely Dynasty,  Frankie’s Shop at Wales and Meckles at Leonora.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Australia, inspired by captain Michael Clarke, crushed India by an innings and 68 runs in the second test at the Sydney Cricket Ground  yesterday to take a dominant 2-0 lead in the four-match series.

CAPE TOWN,  (Reuters) – A superb all-round performance by Jacques Kallis carried South Africa to a series-clinching 10-wicket win over Sri Lanka on the fourth day of the third and final test at Newlands yesterday.

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – A judge granted a request from boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr to postpone until June his three-month jail sentence for domestic battery so the welterweight champion can compete in an upcoming bout, prosecutors said.

ZURICH, Switzerland,  CMC – FIFA have debunked claims that the award of lucrative World Cup TV rights to former vice president Austin “Jack” Warner for as low as US $1 had nothing to do with his support for current president Sepp Blatter.

BERNE, (Reuters) – FIFA has refuted allegations  by former vice-president Jack Warner that implied a decision to  sell him World Cup television rights was a reward for supporting  Sepp Blatter’s presidential campaigns.

-gov’t hints at legal action The national cricket team is out and the West Indies ‘B’ team is in after the government and the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) failed to see eye to eye resulting in the regional entity moving ahead last evening with arrangements to replace Guyana’s Amazon Conquerors in the regional T20 competition.

-says govt offered to pay all costs Chairman of the Interim Management Committee (IMC) for cricket, Clive Lloyd has rejected claims that the formation of the IMC has scuttled the national team’s participation in next week’s Caribbean Twenty20 tournament and has urged the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) to let the players go.

Disgraceful is putting it mildly,  rather the circumstances surrounding Guyana’s shock withdrawal   from the West  Indies T20 Championship is an abominable dereliction of national duty.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Michael Clarke hit a majestic  unbeaten 329 before declaring Australia’s first innings at 659  for four with a lead of 468 on the third day of the second test  against India at the Sydney Cricket Ground yesterday.

Sprinter Winston George aims to put Guyana on the world map at this year’s London Olympics where he is set to run the 400m at the London Olympics in August.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – South Africa need only  six more wickets to clinch their three-test series against Sri  Lanka after forcing the visitors to follow on the third day  of the third test at Newlands yesterday.

President of the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) Kit Nascimento says he plans to seek corporate sponsors and again appeal to government for support for the men’s national Sevens team to help them prepare for the Cathay Pacific/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens tournament in March.

(Reuters) – LeBron James carried the extra load without Dwyane Wade as the Miami Heat recovered from their first loss of the season to crush the Indiana Pacers 118-83 on Wednesday.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – List of leading individual scores  in test cricket after Australia’s Michael Clarke scored 329 not  out against India in the second test on Thursday: 400* Brian Lara (West Indies) v England (St John’s 2003-04) 380  Matthew Hayden (Australia) v Zimbabwe (Perth 2003-04 ) 375  Lara v England (St John’s 1993-94) 374  Mahela Jayawardene (S.Lanka)

(Reuters) – Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness  wants Sepp Blatter to be deposed if the FIFA president fails to  clean up soccer’s governing body in the next year.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Sachin Tendulkar was dismissed for  80 after lunch on the fourth day of the second test between  India and Australia last night, coming up short once again in  his quest for a 100th international century.

Beaten without a ball being bowled. That is the downfall of the Guyana National T20 cricket team known as the Amazon Conquerors.

President of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) Colin Boyce has deemed last year a successful year and is optimistic about the future of athletics in Guyana especially for this year.