BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies Women’s chief selector, Ann Browne-John, has underscored the importance of a multi-faceted approach for determining central retainer contracts for the Caribbean side.
Cricket West Indies’ Director of Cricket, Jimmy Adams and Lead Selector of the men’s selection panel, Roger Harper, on Thursday outlined the rationale for awarding contracts to batsmen.
Following the latest round of action in the Babulall and Son softball T10 tournament, the eight quarterfinalists have been decided and are expected to play this weekend.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Director of cricket, Jimmy Adams, has given the assurance players will not be ruled out of a central retainer contract simply because of one bad year of performance, contending the current system and criteria provided for fairness.
Queenstown marched into the final of the Central Essequibo Cricket Committee 40-overs-a-side U19 tournament by beating Reliance by 93 runs in round three setting up a finals clash with the winner of today’s semi-final between Reliance and Bacchus Bulls.
Paul George scored 24 points as the host Los Angeles Clippers completed a three-game season-series sweep of the Los Angeles Lakers with a 118-94 win Thursday.
(Reuters) – Seven times world champion Lewis Hamilton was fastest in Spanish Grand Prix practice yesterday as the Mercedes driver prepared for a weekend that could bring him a record-stretching 100th Formula One pole position and boost his overall lead.
LONDON, CMC – Test captain Kraigg Brathwaite got a start but failed to carry on but Gloucestershire still did enough to take control of their County Championship clash with Middlesex.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India seam bowler Mohammed Shami and spin all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja were named yesterday to the squad for next month’s World Test Championship (WTC) final against New Zealand in Southampton and the subsequent five-match series against England.
MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Australian women’s basketballer Liz Cambage has protested at a lack of racial diversity in Olympic photo-shoots of the country’s athletes and suggested she might boycott the Tokyo Games if the situation did not change.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India have yet to win an Olympic medal in table tennis but the country’s leading paddler Sathiyan Gnanasekaran believes he can break that jinx in Tokyo this year.
LAHORE, (Reuters) – Pakistan’s leading male cricketers across all three formats and the support staff have all been vaccinated against COVID-19, the country’s cricket board said yesterday.
(Reuters) – The Malaysia Open, scheduled for May 25-30, has been postponed due to a rise in COVID-19 cases in the Southeast Asian country, organisers said yesterday.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The Indian cricket board will explore all options to try to complete this year’s Indian Premier League (IPL) but is yet to discuss offers from English counties to host the remaining matches, a senior official told Reuters yesterday.
Despite the surging local infection rate of the COVID-19 virus, the Guyana Football Federation (GFF), the local governing body, is scheduled to stage its Ordinary Congress on Saturday May 29.
Junior Hercules, the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) National 3×3 Coordinator, has confirmed that U23 Men’s team has been invited to participate in the Junior Pan American Championship, scheduled for Cali, Colombia from September 12-14.
(CMC) – Uncapped Kaysia Schultz is among three new West Indies Women players handed central retainer contracts, as Cricket West Indies yesterday increased the overall number to 18 for the coming year, with all 15 players retained from the previous year.
An infraction at the finish line on Wednesday proved costly to Briton John as breakaway mate, Christopher Griffith was awarded his first win of the season in a photo finish with the former.