Sports

HARROGATE, England, CMC – Guyana’s world squash star Nicolette Fernandes is encouraged by her solid return to the sport but is a trifle disappointed she fell short of title success.

NAPIER, New Zealand, (Reuters) – Ross Taylor and  Jesse Ryder combined for a record 271-run partnership to help  New Zealand recover from a disastrous start and reach 351 for  four at the end of the first day of the second test against  India yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Hugh Gore believes that the disparity between the fees being paid to West Indies players for international appearances, and the fees given to players in first-class cricket in the Caribbean is disgraceful.

Former Guyana and West Indies fast bowler Colin Stuart resigned as the West Indies Cricket Board’s (WICB) Technical Development Officer (TDO) with the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) last month but was asked to rescind his decision by GCB’s vice-president Bissoondial Singh.

Former national basketball player turned coach Lugard Mohan is downplaying talks about moving on to being Guyana’s next national coach  after leading his club Dyna’s Ravens to the Next Level Entertainment (NLE) basketball title last weekend.

Resurgent former national darts champion Norman Madhoo will wing out today for the United States where he will be taking part in the 23rd Annual Virginia Beach Darts Classics.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has saluted West Indies batting star Shivnarine Chanderpaul for his latest accolades, including being given Guyana’s third highest national honour.

Under the guidance of national female coach Phillip Fernandes the Guyana Hockey Board (GHB) will begin their preparation today for the 2009 Caribbean Hockey Cup which will be held in Kingston, Jamaica from June 22-29.

Vice-president and president of the Guyana and Demerara Cricket Boards respectively Bissoondial Singh was re-elected to the stewardship of the East Coast Cricket Board (ECCB) following its Annual General Meeting (AGM) late last month.

The 2009 Victory Valley Royals Inter-School Basketball Champion-ship which is scheduled to start tomorrow in Linden has received a significant boost to its growing list of individual awards with the donation of two pairs of Nike sneakers that will go to the two most valuable players of the finals.

The Guyana Karate Federation (GKF) last Sunday held its 2008 senior karate championship at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH).

According to race organizer Colin Elcock, all systems are in place for Sunday’s Banks DIH Limited sponsored race meet at the Ryan Crawford Memorial Turf Club where over $2M in prizes will be up for grabs.

Uprising’s Devon Alfred scored five goals as Beacon United was swamped 11-0 on Sunday at the Tucville Playfield in the Georgetown Football Association’s (GFA) Coca Cola Under-15 round robin knockout competition.

Action on the local cricket scene following the visiting West Indies and England cricket teams encounter for the first two limited overs matches at the Guyana National Stadium last weekend  will resume in the first and second division competition of the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA).

Ever so often in every sport, a young player with significant talent would emerge and in Guyana a 17-year-old Lindener  named Akeem Kanhai is creating quite a stir in basketball.

– Amelia’s Ward to come alive  Sunday Bread and pastry giant Bakewell yesterday presented an undisclosed sum of cash to the Kashif and Shanghai organization which is promoting an Inter-Ward Fitness Day Sunday at Amelia’s Ward, Main Street, Linden.

Host and W/Connections play unbeaten in preliminaries Pre-tournament favourites Net-Rockers and Winners Connections Football Clubs lived up to the expectations by topping their respective groups at the end of the preliminary round of the Net-Rockers Linden Town Week Under-19 football tournament.

The Thomas Lands-based Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) is now among  the several well wishers who have offered their congratulations to Guyana and West Indies middle order batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul, sending their own congratulatory message yesterday.

MADRID, (Reuters) – Seven-times Tour de France  winner Lance Armstrong fractured his right collarbone in a race  in Spain on Monday, casting doubt on his participation in May’s  Giro d’Italia.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South Africa will host  the second edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) next month after the Twenty20 competition was moved out of India due to security reasons, the IPL said yesterday.