CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan golfers hailed compatriot Jhonattan Vegas’s PGA Tour win as a big advance for their sport in the baseball-obsessed nation and proof socialist leader Hugo Chavez’s disparagement of golf was misplaced.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Chelsea confirmed their return to form with a ruthless 4-0 win over Bolton Wanderers yesterday to keep a foothold in the Premier League title race.
Bhowlaram “Friskie” Deo brought his consistent form of 2010 into the start of this year when he secured victory in the Harris Paints sponsored Medal Play Golf tournament last Saturday at the Lusignan Golf Course.
Loris Nathoo and Wendell Meusa are the only two unbeaten players after six rounds of the Trophy Stall Chess Tournament at the Keishar’s Sports Club on Sunday.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Ernest Hilaire hopes to grow the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship brand value to such a high level that the West Indies Cricket Board will have little trouble being able to find a sponsor for it.
AHMEDABAD, India, CMC – West Indies Women will return from their tour of India empty-handed, after another terminal batting decline condemned them to a 15-run defeat in the third and final Twenty20 International against India Women yesterday.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Gus Logie acknowledged that to say he has no aspirations to coach West Indies team again may be talking himself out of the job.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Trinidad & Tobago overcame their inspirational captain Daren Ganga being sidelined with a hand injury to be crowned the new Caribbean Twenty20 champions, following a resounding, 36-run victory over Hampshire yesterday.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Purposeful bowling followed solid batting led by Danza Hyatt to lead Jamaica to a third place finish in the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship, following a 10-run victory over Windwards Islands yesterday.
By Marlon Munroe
Organisers of the year’s first Pro-Am card boxing card want the event to pack a punch and have added two bonus fights at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on January 28.
President of the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) Errol Tiwari says that for chess to develop and spread across Guyana the GCF must transform the game into a culture locally.
MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Roger Federer made hard work of reaching his 27th consecutive grand slam quarter-final at the Australian Open yesterday but it looked like a short shift after Francesca Schiavone’s titanic tussle with Svetlana Kuznetsova.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago will return to the lucrative Airtel Champions League Twenty20 this year, after trouncing a docile Jamaica in the semi-finals of the Caribbean T20 Championship on Saturday.
AHMEDABAD, India, CMC – Steady bowling spell from Tremayne Smartt and Anisa Mohammed helped West Indies Women level their three-match Twenty20 International series with India Women, following a tense, three-run victory yesterday.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – David Hussey halted a middle-order collapse and guided Australia to a four-wicket victory over England in the third one-day international at the Sydney Cricket Ground yesterday.
CENTURION, South Africa, (Reuters) – India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has blamed his team’s fragile batting for the one-day series defeat in South Africa.
CENTURION, South Africa, (Reuters) – Yusuf Pathan’s blistering century proved in vain for India as South Africa won the fifth and decisive one-day international by 33 runs yesterday to take the series 3-2.
AHMEDABAD, India, CMC – West Indies women were let down by their batting to plunge to a six-wicket defeat to India in the opening Twenty20 International of their three-match series here yesterday.
The proposed amendment to the constitution of the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) was a hot button issue at the organisation’s Annual General Meeting yesterday at the Lusignan Community