Category: Sports

By Kiev Chesney Head of Guyana’s delegation to the 2011 Pan American Games, Noel Adonis, is of the view that the absence of national long distance champion Cleveland Forde will reduce the country’s chances of winning medals at the event, which will be held in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico from October 14 to 30. “I don’t know what is the reason for him deciding not to compete, but this is a significant blow to our team; because, as you may already know, he (Forde) is one of our most prominent international…

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Berbice comfortably retained their El Dorado 50-Over Inter-County title at the Albion Community Centre ground on September 25. Demerara had played unbeaten in the preliminary rounds before stumbling at the final hurdle. An unblemished 105 from skipper Assad Fudadin helped Berbice coast to 237 in 42 overs despite a tentative start and loss of wickets at crucial periods, as they chased the 236 for nine made by Demerara in their complement of 50 overs. Man-of-the-match Fudadin cracked a brilliant 105, a knock that contained ten fours from 110 deliveries. Foo…

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Last week, in the midst of a tight County Championship race, I was delighted to learn that my fellow Guyanese and West Indian teammate Devendra Bishoo had won the ICC’s Emerging Player of the Year award for 2011. This is a richly-deserved accolade for Bishoo, and marks the first time that a West Indian cricketer has won this prestigious honour. Since his international debut at the World Cup in India, his performances in both those ODIs and the subsequent ODIs and Test matches against India and Pakistan, where he reaped…

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By Kiev Chesney The 2011 Inter-Guiana Games (IGG) basketball tournament in Suriname next month means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. For Lugard Mohan, it means coaching for the first time at this tournament, after observing and working with the country’s premier junior athletes all year round as the director of coaching and officiating for Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG). For assistant coach and former IGG captain Akeem Kanhai, it is an opportunity to see the game from a different perspective, so that he can further…

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Guyana’s lone participant at the South American Junior Track and Field Championships, Stephan James, will be bringing home a bronze medal when he returns this week after placing third in the 400m in Colombia on Saturday. The 18-year-old Running Brave track club athlete clocked 47.79 seconds for third place in the 400m final, which was won by 19-year-old Anderson Freitas Henriques of Brazil in 46.59s. James was edged out of second place by hometown favourite Bernardo Baloyez, who clocked 47.05. James also clocked 22.43 in the 200-metre final, placing seventh.…

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Youth prevailed over experience on Friday evening, September 23, when 24-year-old Simeon “Candyman” Hardy dished out a whipping on 32-year-old Winston Pompey in the main bout of the 18th monthly ProAm boxing card at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall. The two faced each other in a junior middleweight title eliminator on a ProAm Friday Night Fights (FNF) card promoted by the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) in collaboration with the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) and the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport. Also in winner’s row were Troy…

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– congratulates WI trio on ICC awards By Avenash Ramzan After a short but highly successful stint with Warwickshire in the Division One County Championship in England, the region’s premier batsman, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, has returned home, fully focused on representing Guyana in next month’s West Indies Cricket Board’s (WICB) Regional Super50 and winning back his spot in all three formats at international level. Of recent, the experienced Chanderpaul has been overlooked by the WICB selectors for the limited-over versions (50-over and T20) of the game, but he has been a…

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– team manager confident that selection and preparation processes will yield success By Kiev Chesney The countdown to the 2011 Inter-Guiana Games stands at 32 days to go, and the male and female basketball teams are both in a good place, according to team manager Chris Bowman, with both teams benefiting from a combination of competition, experience and intense training. Last weekend, the male training squad secured two impressive wins, against Plaisance Guardians and Pepsi Sonics respectively. In the latter victory on Saturday evening, the IGG squad was able to…

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By Melinda Bishundyal Assad Fudadin and Narsingh Deonarine powered their way to classy half-centuries as Demerara rushed to the fastest win in the third round of the El Dorado 50-over Inter-county competition at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) ground Tuesday , September 20th. After winning the toss and choosing to field first, Berbice justified their decision by never allowing Essequibo to build any substantial partnership, the highest being 64 for the third wicket between Lall and Norwin Fredricks, In their turn at the crease, the Berbice batsmen dispatched the Essequibo…

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