Category: Sports

– Clark, Campbell dethroned By Michelangelo Jacobus Staged for the first time under new Guyana Amateur Body Building and Fitness (GABBFF) executive Coel Marks at the prestigious Marriott Hotel on Sunday evening, the Senior National Championships proved to be a night of major upsets as four-time Mr. Guyana (bodybuilding) Kerwin Clarke and two-time Mr. Guyana (Men’s Physique), Emmerson Campbell both lost their titles. The judges favoured USA based Bruce Whatley, who won the men’s bodybuilding overall and Yannick Grimes, a runner up on several occasions taking top spot in the…

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Gifted Albion Cricket Club, Berbice and National U-17 left arm spinner and lower order batsman Kelvin Umrao is the latest young Berbice cricketer to receive sponsorship from Guyanese living in New York. The career of Umrao, like other young promising cricketers from Berbice, is being closely followed by a group of Guyanese living in the State of New York, USA and in response to his rapid progress and discipline; he was presented with a bag of cricket gears to assist with his further development. The gears consist of one cricket…

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By Akeem Greene Since his introduction on the international scene for Afghanistan, Rashid Khan has been touted as the teenage leg-spinning sensation who bamboozles batsmen with cutting edge accuracy and guile. Now suiting up for the Guyana Amazon Warriors for the fifth edition of the Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL), which begins on August 4, Khan is planning on causing more nightmares for opposition batsmen. Khan’s career has been on the upswing since making his T20 International debut in October 2015. He boasts figures of 5 runs for 3 wickets…

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Guyana Amazon Warriors showed that they are well prepared in final practice match with convincing win over a Select XI on Tuesday at the National Stadium. The Warriors recorded their highest score of 160-5 in 20 overs then returned to restrict their counterparts to 88-7 in 20 overs to claim their only success in three practice matches before they departed for Florida on Wednesday. Opener Martin Guptill led the way for the Warriors with 47 from 25 balls inclusive of two sixes and six fours while receiving support from Jason…

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…courtesy of Nestle Milo Twelve-year-old Martin King has won the chance of a lifetime — to train with Futbol Club Barcelona in Spain. It is a chance most adults only dream about. King, coincidentally, was the last child to register for the Nestle Milo-sponsored Skills Tournament for children in the Caribbean. The children were made to go through three skill sets: dribbling, short passing and control. As they went through the drills, they were judged based on skill and accuracy, and were awarded points based on their performances. Called “Messi”…

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Full name: Steven Ryan Taylor Born: November 9, 1993, Hialeah, Florida Current age: 23 Playing role: Opening batsman Batting style: Left-hand bat Bowling style: Right-arm off-break Taylor is no stranger to the Hero Caribbean Premier League, having played with the Barbados Tridents last year, but did not have the most memorable impact in his six matches. Taylor, who plays for the United States of America in ICC events and Jamaica Scorpions in the Regional Super50, is an explosive top-order batsman, who boasts a highest T20 score of 91 made against…

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Dynamic top order batsman Chris Lynn is eager to display more carnage with the bat in hand for the Guyana Amazon Warriors in this year’s Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL). Lynn was the team’s best batsman last year, scoring 454 runs at a remarkable average of 45.4, and recording a highest score of 86 from his 12 matches. Those stats helped the three-time runners-up reach the final against eventual winners Jamaica Tallawahs. Despite the undisputed talent the player possesses, his international career for his native Australia has been curtailed by…

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Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has warned that West Indies could face relegation from the top tier of international cricket if the regional game continues in its current state of crisis. Laying the current demise at the feet of Cricket West Indies, Rowley said nothing proactive was being done to salvage the situation but rather, administrators were simply hoping for a “miracle” in order to turn things around. “My perspective is that West Indies cricket is in dire trouble, in crisis, and if we are not careful,…

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