Sports

FALMOUTH, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica’s recent fickle weather upstaged a half-century from national captain Chris Gayle and steady spin bowling from Nikita Miller and Odean Brown to hand Windward Islands a five-wicket, upset victory when this year’s WICB Regional One-day competition opened yesterday.

With commanding wins in the 100m and 200m events of the girls under-16 category, nationals athlete Kimberley McIntyre was the highlight of the day at the Wales Community Centre on Wednesday at one of the Inter-schools Championships of the West Demerara district.

The eighth edition of the annual All-Star Weekend was launched yesterday by the events promotion group Wildfire Entertainment (WE) at the home of WE’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Jonathan Beepat in Bel Air Springs.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Unruffled composure over two  decades, in the face of the world’s most hostile attacks and the  frenzied demands of a celebrity-fixated society, confirms the  true greatness of Sachin Tendulkar.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – After enduring two stinging  test defeats in India, Ricky Ponting will return home with questions about Australia’s form and his  captaincy ringing in his ears a month before the Ashes start.

SHANGHAI, (Reuters) – Exhausted world number one Rafa  Nadal suffered a surprise 6-1 3-6 6-3 defeat by Austria’s  Juergen Melzer in the third round of the Shanghai Masters yesterday, while Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray marched on.

NEW DELHI, Oct 14 (Reuters) – Delhi put on a second flawless  spectacle of song and dance yesterday to close the  Commonwealth Games on a high after at one stage threatening to  become a national embarrassment to India.

POTCHEFSTROOM, South Africa, CMC – Stacy-Ann King’s handy all-round performance helped West Indies Women to a six-wicket victory over South Africa Women in the Twenty20 competition in the ICC Women’s World Challenge yesterday.

By Marlon Munroe World-ranked Guyanese boxer Leon ‘Hurry Up’ Moore has won 78 percent of his fights by the TKO route and now he wants to enrich his legacy by also being a promoter.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – Shakib Al Hasan produced a  brilliant all-round performance in the fourth one-day  international against New Zealand yesterday to help Bangladesh  to a maiden series victory over top-flight opposition.

Local boxers ink contracts for November 6 card; Judah, O’Neil and London addedLocal boxers signed their contracts yesterday at the Princess Hotel amidst sweeping changes to the original roster.

Local rifle shooters Mahendra Persaud and Ransford Goodluck finished just outside of the medals on the penultimate day of the Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India yesterday.

– but climb in IRB world rankings After being defeated without scoring in their previous three rugby Sevens matches of the 2010 Commonwealth Games, the national rugby Sevens team delivered an improved performance as they went down to Tonga 14-21 in their final game of the tournament on Tuesday.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India and England slugged it  out in the ring for the honour of being second best to Australia  yesterday as Delhi prepared for another security lockdown to  usher in the end of the Commonwealth Games.

The highly anticipated Guyana Lawn Tennis Association (GLTA) Nigel’s Supermarket Junior Classic Tennis Tournament will begin this Saturday at the Pegasus Hotel Tennis Courts.

As part of its preparations for participation in next year’s CARICOM Basketball Championships, the national female basketball team will travel  to Antigua where they will compete in the 11th Annual Gillian Brazier Basketball Shoot-Out for females from November 24 – 28.

The Oasis water company yesterday made a timely donation to the Fruta Conquerors football club which is to assist in the refurbishing of the Tucville playfield ahead of their annual Namilco Football Festival which is scheduled to commence later this month.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Title-holders Trinidad and Tobago will begin their quest for a hat-trick of titles when they face Combined Campuses and Colleges on the opening day of the WICB Regional one-day championship today.

RALEIGH, North Carolina, (Reuters) – Former 400  metres world champion Antonio Pettigrew died in August of an  antihistamine overdose, a state autopsy report said yesterday.

BANGALORE, (Reuters) – Debutant Cheteshwar Pujara  struck a sparkling 72 as India thumped Australia by seven  wickets in the second and final test yesterday to sweep in  the series and consolidate their world number one status.