HPC to clash with Windies on Dubai tour
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The High Performance Centre squad is set to play the West Indies senior team on their upcoming two-week tour of Dubai.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The High Performance Centre squad is set to play the West Indies senior team on their upcoming two-week tour of Dubai.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago have received a TT$3.3 million (US$519 685) boost from the National Gas Company for their Champions League Twenty20 campaign.
LONDON, England, CMC – Test off-spinner Graeme Swann will lead England in a two-match Twenty20 series against West Indies later this month.
The Guyana Beverage Company (GBC) has renewed its sponsorship of the Rose Hall Youth and Sports Club (RHTYSC) organized, Busta Champion-of-Champions limited overs tournament.
The 2011 Tenelec Inc. First Division limited overs round robin competition in Berbice continued last Sunday with Ralph Ogle turning in an outstanding performance.
By Iva Wharton Guyanese track and field athletes are nowhere near ready to compete on the international arena, says Stephon Josiah, a University of Guyana student-athlete who recently returned from the Universiad track meet in China.
Some members of the Interim Management Committee for cricket in Guyana said yesterday that the Ramsey Ali administration continues to mislead the public by pretending to be legitimate officials of the Guyana Cricket Board, currently a legal non-entity.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – CARICOM leaders said they will engage the West Indies Cricket Board and the West Indies Players Association to ascertain their positions regarding the future of the game in the region.
The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/EL Dorado Inter-County limited overs cricket competition was launched yesterday at a press conference at the GCB head office, Regent Street.
By Iva Wharton It is the prevailing view that women cricketers today are not treated as equals compared to their male counterparts.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Professor Sir Hilary Beckles disclosed that he was embarrassed when he had to turn down a request from former World 110 metres hurdles champion Ryan Brathwaite of Barbados to train at an unfinished University of the West Indies facility on the Cave Hill campus.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – National captain Daren Ganga expects Trinidad & Tobago to qualify for the main draw of the Champions League Twenty20.
LONDON, CMC – Shivnarine Chanderpaul helped Warwickshire pile up a huge first innings total, but the title hopefuls’ progress was slowed down, when weather interrupted their key English County Championship Division 1 match against Hampshire yesterday.
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Devendra Bishoo and Stafanie Taylor have been highly praised, after they scooped honours at the International Cricket Council Awards on Monday.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Teenaged wicketkeeper/batsman Sunil Ambris has been named in a shortlist of 34 players to play in three trial matches for the Combined Campuses & Colleges ahead of the WICB Regional One-day competition.
By Iva Wharton Rugged terrain, lack of proper representation, inadequate finance and poor communication continue to work against the development of Amerindian sportsmen and women, says Mark Rodrigues of the Hinterland Youth and Development Association.
ZAGREB, Croatia, CMC – Usain Bolt continued to rebuild his air of invincibility with a peerless victory in the men’s 100 metres in an IAAF World Challenge meet yesterday.
LONDON, CMC – Devendra Bishoo and Stafanie Taylor kept the West Indies flag flying high, and have both been recognised for their outstanding form inside the last year, when they scooped honours yesterday at the International Cricket Council Awards.
Luck was definitely a part of the West Indies women team’s Twenty/20 super over victory over Pakistan last Sunday night at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence.
The Ministry of Culture Youth and Sport yesterday extended congratulations to West Indian leg spinner Devendra Bishoo who has won the 2011 International Cricket Council (ICC) Emerging Player-of-the-Year award.
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