– Grove Hi-Tech stun Milerock
When Pele and international striker Gregory ‘Jackie Chan’ Richardson told Stabroek Sport last week that he was going to put on a show at the National Stadium, this writer and I suppose many ardent readers of the sports pages were wondering just what he was going to do.
Technical Director of the Women’s football programme for the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Mark Rodrigues, along with coach of the local female team Wayne ‘Wiggy’ Dover and overseas coaches Edwin De Rosario and Rohan Narine are all expressing their optimism for a successful Women’s Friendly International Tournament.The
The pitch at the WACA ground in Perth is, in every way, the centre of attention for the third and final Test between Australia and the West Indies, starting tomorrow (10.30 pm tonight east Caribbean time).
St. Stanislaus College (SSC) `A’ Team played unbeaten to claim the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport (MCY&S) National Schools Chess Championship on Sunday at the Carifesta Avenue Sports Complex.
BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – The prolific 17-year-old batsman Kraigg Brathwaite stroked a well measured hundred as West Indies Under-19s beat Canada U19s by 71 runs on the Duckworth/Lewis method in their rain-aborted ICC 2010 Youth World Cup practice match yesterday.
WESTMOORINGS, Trinidad, CMC – The Barbadian trio of Zabrina Holder, Shannon Smith and Sariyah Sherry each ended with five individual gold medals when the 23rd Amateur Swimming Association of Trinidad and Tobago (ASATT) December Invitational ended Sunday night.
KARACHI, (Reuters) – Former Pakistan captain Younus Khan began a coaching course at the national academy in Lahore yesterday after last month asking for a break from playing international cricket.
LONDON, England, CMC – Colossal Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt has won the BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year Award for the second year in a row, becoming only the third person in history to win the award in successive years.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago snapped the Barbadians’ three-game winning streak Sunday when they whipped the home side by 31 runs in the Barbados National Sports Council’s (NSC) Invitational Under-13 cricket tournament.
PRETORIA, South Africa, (Reuters) – England all-rounder Stuart Broad will turn down offers to play in next year’s lucrative Indian Premier League (IPL) in order to be in peak form for the 2010 Ashes in Australia, he said yesterday.
Dwayne Smith has been signed on for the New South Wales Blues for Australia’s inter-state Twenty20 series in January, making the all-rounder unavailable for Barbados until at least the fourth round of the forthcoming regional first-class season.
SYDNEY, Australia, CMC – Six months after announcing that he had retired from boxing, Guyana’s former world super featherweight champion Gairy St Clair returned to the ring this past weekend with a narrow victory over Indonesia’s Moses Seran in a non-title bout.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Batsmen Justin Guillen, Lendl Simmons and William Perkins all showed good form Sunday, as trials began to select Trinidad and Tobago’s team for the upcoming regional first-class cricket season.
Popular boxing promoter, Carwyn Holland, of Holland’s Entertainment Promotions, has the perfect gift for boxing fans – a promotions dubbed “Season’s Beatings” which promises to deliver unsurpassed fistic entertainment, a press release from the promotions group stated.
By Marlon Munroe
The second national schools’ chess championships opened on Saturday with some 20 schools from six regions competing for the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport trophy at the Carifesta Sports Complex.
By Marlon MunroeFormer national opener Krishna Arjune made a sparkling 182 for Guyana National Industrial Corporation (GNIC) and Georgetown Cricket Club’s opener Wasim Haslim smashed a brilliant 112 on the second day of the third round of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) three-day first division tournament.
…GCC disposes of TSC by innings and 21 runs, three matches drawn
By Marlon Munroe
Vishal “Cheesy” Singh’s ton spearheaded Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) to an innings and 21-run victory over Transport Sports Club (TSC) in less than two sessions after rain washed out the morning session of the third round of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) three-day first division tournament yesterday.
Wayne `Wiggy’ Dover has been appointed head coach of the local women’s national football team which will participate in an upcoming triangular international tournament, a press release from the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has stated.
Neal and Massy Security Solutions (NMSS) retained the 2009 Edward ‘Andy’ Andrews Memorial Dominoes competition title for teams in the Neal and Massy Group.