Diamond Mineral Water Hockey Festival set to bully off Defending men’s champions Hikers will start as pre tournament favourites when the Diamond Mineral Water International Indoor Hockey Festival opens this evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
By Marlon Munroe First-Class cricket requires cricketers to have optimum fitness especially when one takes into consideration that the players are required to travel to various Caribbean territories for matches with four days separating each game when the upcoming regional season commences in January.
– calls on gov’t, businesses to help basketball By Rawle Toney “The game is dead right now up here, nothing is happening for us because nobody wants to support the game at this end,” Kirk Fraser tells Stabroek Sport as he speaks openly about the dying state of basketball in the ancient county of Berbice.
Eighteen-year-old Terrence Madramootoo smashed a record-breaking double century for Rose Hall Town Bakewell (RHTB) to lead his team to a massive 365-run win in the 2009 New Building Society (NBS) second division tournament at the Area “H” ground on Sunday.
– Crawford’s 126 and 5-31 seal victory for Scorpion Former Berbice middle order batsman Eon Abel slammed a century to help defending champions D’Edward to a seven-wicket win over Number 2 in the 2009 New Building Society (NBS) second division 40-over cricket competition in Berbice.
LONDON, England, CMC – Guyana’s squash ace Nicolette Fernandes is back among the world’s top 100 ranked women players and is now 88th on the Women’s International Squash Players Association (WISPA) ratings list.
ADELAIDE, Australia, CMC – A battered West Indies team will seek to stem the rising tide of verbal twaddle that has been trailed out by skeptics who believe that they are a “joke”, when they face Australia in the second Test, starting on Friday (Thursday evening – East Caribbean Time) at Adelaide Oval.
KARACHI, (Reuters) – Pakistan’s government has given the go-ahead for the country’s players to take part in the lucrative Indian Premier League (IPL) next year, a cricket board spokesman told Reuters yesterday.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Part-time medium pacer Shawn Findlay advertised his all-round skills Tuesday and used a five-wicket haul to propel Dave Bernard’s XI to a huge win in Jamaica’s second practice match ahead of next month’s West Indies first-class season.
MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Tillakaratne Dilshan struck his second century of the series and Angelo Mathews hit his second test 50 to power Sri Lanka to 366 for eight at the close on the opening day of the final test against India yesterday.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Marlon Samuels is eyeing a return to West Indies colours once he finishes a two-year ban for links to an Indian bookie.
ADELAIDE, Australia, CMC – Joel Garner clean-bowled critics of West Indies cricket with a verbal salvo equivalent to his specialty toe-crushing yorker for which he became famous as part of the feared West Indies fast bowling arsenal of the 1970s and 1980s.
ADELAIDE, Australia, CMC – Michael Slater urged the current West Indies side to stop trying to live-up to the ghosts of West Indies past and forge a new legacy for themselves.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Brian Lara has delivered a stinging rebuke of the current structure of West Indies cricket.
No one is more painfully aware of the rapid disintegration of West Indies cricket than West Indians themselves.
ADELAIDE, Australia, CMC – John Buchanan has urged the sport’s World governing body to make West Indies cricket a charity case.
– two weeks and still no word from gov’t By Rawle Toney It’s over two weeks since Guyana’s victorious and heroic men and women’s rugby teams returned from Mexico where they both retained their North American & Caribbean Rugby Association (NACRA) Sevens Title but the Government of Guyana, more so the Ministry of Sport, has not yet even offered congratulations.
The stage is set for the start of the sixth Annual Diamond mineral Water International Indoor Hockey Festival tomorrow at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall with Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) and Hikers veterans to square off in the curtain raiser at 15:00 hours.
The Kashif and Shanghai Organisation is continuing to receive financial support from one of its oldest sponsors Banks DIH Limited.
Fitness Paradise Gym after an absence of over three years has returned and this time, it was promised that they are here to stay and to shape the new you.
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