Shivnarine Chanderpaul completed a first half-century for Derbyshire on the opening day of their first home match of the new LV County Championship season against Nottinghamshire. The West Indies star was 63 not out from a total of 197-8 at tea but it had largely been a day of toil for the home side after losing the toss for the third game in a row and being sent in to bat in testing conditions. Stuart Broad, making a rare county appearance, took 4-51. Skipper Wayne Madsen went to the final…
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Smith leads Mumbai come-from-behind win
Harbhajan Singh went for 26 runs in a horror first over of the match, but he hit a six in the last over that broke the hearts of a packed Eden Gardens to top off Mumbai Indians’ comeback in the match on Wednesday. From 46 for 1 after three overs of the match, Mumbai clawed their way back through Mitchell Johnson, Lasith Malinga and Pragyan Ojha who went for 72 runs in their 12 overs and took six wickets, including just three runs in the special last over bowled by…
Read More‘SUPERHUMAN’ – former and current cricketers express their views on Chris Gayle’s record- breaking feats
By Avenash Ramzan – Several records tumbled in Bengaluru on Tuesday as Christopher Henry Gayle and the Royal Challengers Bangalore rewrote 20/20 record books with a compelling performance against the Pune Warriors India (PWI) in match 31 of the sixth Pepsi Indian Premier League (IPL). Gayle, the strongly-built West Indian, hammered the PWI bowlers to all parts of the stadium, scoring a pugnacious 175 not out from a mere 66 balls and a phenomenal strike rate of 265.15. It was T20’s highest individual score and the 17 sixes were the…
Read MoreKhalil siblings win respective squash titles
Top junior squash player Jason Ray Khalil dominated to win the final of the men’s Easter Senior squash tournament being sponsored by ANSA McAL at the Georgetown Club on Sunday. Khalil, who normally plays with a flashy sense of style, reverted to a more reserved style, displaying his shot creativity in the process to win the final in three straight sets against former two-time junior Caribbean champion Regan Pollard. While the first set was gruelling and lasted 12 minutes, Khalil prevailed with an 11/9 win before easily disposing of Pollard…
Read MoreYBG launches nationwide schools’ basketball championships
Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG) on Tuesday launched their eight edition of the National Schools Basketball Festival and the third edition of the Regional Conference Championships at Marian Academy Sports Office, Carifesta Avenue. The tournament, which has become the nationwide testing ground for school basketball teams, will feature four conferences namely: Ancient Conference (Berbice), City Conference (Georgetown), Diamond Conference (East Bank) and the Country Conference (East Coast). Linden, which already has a school tournament of their own, will feature in the tournament when the Conference finals roll around on May 26.…
Read MoreGoodluck crowned 2013 national champion…but Sampson takes final day honours in ‘X’ Class
Ransford Goodluck was crowned the 2013 national rifle shooting champion, but Ryan Sampson upstaged the front runners in the ‘X’ Class on the final day of competition at the Timehri rifle ranges on Sunday. Sampson recorded 128 points with six Vs to edge out Goodluck, Lennox Braithwaite and Dylan Fields in a closely-fought final day. It was a battle of nerves as Sampson dropped just one point out of a possible 35 at 300 yards and followed up with 48 points and three Vs at 500 yards and 46.2 at…
Read MoreAtwell, Mullings are CABOFE champs – Dharry, Austin lift local titles
By Avenash Ramzan – With the Princess Hotel towering in the background and the swimming pool adding to the tranquil ambience, a fair-sized crowd was treated to an exhibition of classical boxing last Saturday evening when the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) staged its “Firestorm” boxing card at the Princess Hotel and Casino. At the end of the seven-fight card in the wee hours of Sunday, four men etched their names into the annals of boxing history, becoming World Boxing Council (WBC)/Caribbean Boxing Federation (CABOFE) and local champions. Touted…
Read MoreA moment in time…Rohan Kanhai and Lance Gibbs did us proud
If the West Indies cricket tour of Australia in 1960/61 was dramatic and entertaining, it wasn’t just the quality of play that was superb; it was the sportsmanship that was rigorously testing, yet mutually admiring. No wonder the tour produced the (then) unique result of a tied Test in the first match at Brisbane, and also contrived to evoke a spontaneous outpouring of people on the streets at Melbourne to bid goodbye to the tourists as they were about to depart from Australia at the end of the tour. In…
Read MoreImparting the art of indian dance traditions
Overseas-based Guyanese Deviekha Chetram is a celebrated Indian classical dancer and dance instructor. With more than 30 years experience teaching classical Indian dance, she is regarded as an international pioneer of her art form. The youngest of 14 children, Deviekha was born May 24, 1957 and lived in Alexander Village on the East Bank Demerara. Her father, known as ‘Uncle Gully’, was an overseer for the Ruimveldt Sugar Estate. Her mother, affectionately called ‘Aunty Radhay’, was a businesswoman. The dancer comes from a very artistic family: both her parents loved…
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(CONTINUED FROM APRIL 14) Gromweagle [or Groenewegen] was a Dutchman, born in 1581, who, serving under various Spanish expeditions in the Orinoco, acquired so a great liking for the adventures incident to a life in Guiana that, having heard that his own countrymen from Zealand were establishing themselves more firmly on the Essequibo than the Spaniards were likely ever to do in any part of Guiana, he asked for employment from his own countrymen and was sent from Zealand, in what capacity does not appear very certainly, in 1616 with…
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