Sports

Today’s scheduled Georgetown Turf Club horse race meet which was scheduled for Mocha Arcadia has been postponed, one of the organizers said yesterday.

Dominoes fans will swing into the festive season today when the Guyana Dominoes Association stages a 12-team Christmas Pepper pot tournament at the Dynasty Sports Bar.

MELBOURNE, Australia,  CMC – Fast bowler Fidel Edwards and fellow West Indian Chris Gayle both failed to take a wicket and Gayle was dismissed for just four but their Sydney Thunder team, propelled by a brilliant, unbeaten century from new Australia Test player David Warner, beat Melbourne Stars by six wickets in the Twenty20 Big Bash League at the MCG yesterday.

TOKYO,  (Reuters) – FIFA’s growing concern at Brazil’s lagging preparations for the 2014 World Cup have prompted president Sepp Blatter to make the matter a “personal dossier”.

DHAKA,  (Reuters) – Shakib Al Hasan and Shahriar Nafees shared a record 180-run stand to take Bangladesh to a respectable 234-5 against Pakistan before bad light ended the opening day’s play of the second test  yesterday.

MADRID, (Reuters) – Cristiano Ronaldo netted his fifth La Liga hat-trick of the campaign as Real Madrid brushed off Pepe’s 44th-minute dismissal to secure a crushing 6-2 victory at Sevilla and move back above Barcelona to the top of the standings yesterday.

Top seeds in the Under-21 male and female categories Nigel Bryan and Trenace Lowe respectively played true to the seedings yesterday when the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) national championships continued at the National Gymnasium.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) football team has withdrawn from the Banks DIH Banks-Beer sponsored tournament which is being run by the Georgetown Football Association (GFA).

Grove Hi Tech last evening defeated Netrockers 5-3 on penalty kicks in game three of the 22nd annual Kashif and Shanghai football tournament at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground.

Former three time men’s singles champion Colin France used his vast experience to  win  the men’s doubles title with partner Denzil Hopkinson when the Guyana Table Tennis Association national championships continued yesterday at the National Gymnasium.

As the Guyana senior cricket team  begin preparations for next month’s Caribbean Twenty20 tournament that kicks off in Antigua and Barbados from January 10 – 22, arguably the biggest story coming out of Guyana’s 14-man squad selection besides the omission of Ramnaresh Sarwan is  the selection of Christopher Barnwell as captain.

Veteran cricket commentator Joseph `Reds’ Perreira is  urging the establishment of pro league cricket here and expressed the hope that one day Guyanese players will not have to flock to Trinidad & Tobago to play cricket to earn their keep.

CANBERRA,  (Reuters) – Sachin Tendulkar hit a quickfire 92 before retiring as India’s first warm-up match on their tour of Australia against a Chairman’s XI ended in a draw after rain brought an early end to play yesterday.

Inspirational head coach of the Golden Jaguars team Jamaal Shabbaz has called on the Guyanese public to put the elections results behind them and unite as a nation around the national football team.

With Barbadian knockout specialist Shawn ‘The Sniper’ Cox’s birthday 9 days away, he is not entertaining the thought of losing against Guyana’s destructive force Kurt ‘The Sledgehammer’ Bess  when the two clash tonight  at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

National swimming coach Stephanie Fraser says that the  re-introduction of the sport of water polo to Guyanese will allow older swimmers to be involved in a competitive aquatic activity.

CENTURION, South Africa, (Reuters) – AB de Villiers fell one short of a 13th test century  yesterday after helping South Africa into a commanding position on the second day of the first test against Sri Lanka at Centurion.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Kelvin Williams said blame it on the rain if Trinidad & Tobago failed to repeat as Caribbean Twenty20 champions next year.

The first round of the annual National Schools chess champions sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport commences today at the Providence National Stadium.

ADELAIDE, Australia, CMC/IANS – Kieron Pollard has been ruled out of the Big Bash Twenty20 League with a tear in his right hamstring.