Category: Sports

Winning the Caribbean T20 wasn’t enough to secure a Champions League berth this time, but former finalists Trinidad & Tobago roared back into the main draw with a walloping of England’s champions Leicestershire. Lendl Simmons and Adrian Barath put together T&T’s highest partnership in Twenty20 cricket, and the bowlers strangled the Leicestershire batsmen into throwing their wickets away on a slow track. T&T came across as the more aware side: while their batsmen exploited slow legs in the field (Leicestershire’s average age is more than 30), the Leicestershire top order…

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Bridgetown, Barbados – West Indies Head Coach Ottis Gibson believes his team can match England when the two sides meet in the upcoming two-match T20 series. The Windies have departed Barbados for England, after a week-long, intense preparatory camp at the Sagicor High Performance Centre. Speaking ahead of the squad’s departure, Gibson noted that the tour will provide several new players with a chance to get exposure on the international stage. He added that the team includes some very good young players who have the desire to do well. “We…

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Fifteen-year-old swim star Britany Van Lange and Olympian Niall Roberts have been selected by the Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA) to attend the 2011 Pan American Swimming Championships in Guadalajara, Mexico from October 14 to 30. The duo will be accompanied by national coach Stephanie Fraser, who incidentally is the club coach for Dorado Swim Club, where both swimmers train. Fraser told Guyana Times International Sport yesterday that she is very confident that the two swimmers will be able to perform well at this international event. Fraser said she is…

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-Guyana Beverage Company on board with RTHY&SC for eighth year in succession By Avenash Ramzan Eight clubs from Berbice will begin the battle for supremacy on Saturday, September 10 when the eighth staging of the Busta Champion of Champions 50- Over Cricket competition, organised by the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RTHY&SC), begins at four venues in the Ancient County. Guyana Beverage Company, under its Busta brand, yesterday renewed its partnership with the RHTY&SC, and will be the exclusive sponsor of the event, which has a top prize…

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BY AVENASH RAMZAN The Pitbulls of Georgetown and Mike’s Wellwoman won the Male and Female Open categories respectively, while J. C. Chandisingh Secondary and L’Aventure Secondary were crowned champions of the Schools’ competition on Sunday evening when action in the inaugural Kares Engineering/Bushy Park Sawmill/ Guyana Softball League T10 Tapeball Cricket competition ended at the National Stadium, Providence. A fair sized crowd witnessed seven highly competitive matches as the teams battled for the lucrative prizes on offer during the final day of the tournament, which attracted 942 teams. In the…

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Siblings Narayan and Priyanna Ramdhani copped five medals at the recently held Caribbean Junior Badminton Championship (Carebaco) at the Wildey Gymnasium in Barbados. Young Priyanna, who won bronze at the Pan American Junior Championship in Jamaica earlier this year, competed in the Under-13 category instead of her regular Under-11, due to a lack of entries in the latter division. Priyanna finished with two silver medals in the Under-13 Singles and Mixed Doubles. Narayan, on the other hand, won a silver each in the Under-15 Doubles and Mixed Doubles, and bronze…

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BY AVENASH RAMZAN Guyana’s contingent to the 2011 Pan Caribbean Martial Arts Championship held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, returned home recently with a heap of awards, including a second place finish overall in the six-team event. Guyana was represented by the Black Hawks Martial Arts Management Network (BHMAMN), which is based at the National Gymnasium on Mandela Avenue. BHMAMN, a team comprising 11 athletes and three officials, finished with 12 World titles, second to Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados, who finished with an astounding…

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BY AVENASH RAMZAN  A goal from Khano Smith in the dying minutes of the game gave Bermuda some consolation in the game, but Guyana’s ‘Golden Jaguars’ emerged with a 2-1 victory last evening to stay unbeaten in Group Two of the 2014 World Cup Qualifiers at the National Stadium, Providence. Watched on by a vociferous partisan home crowd, the ‘Jaguars’ squandered several goal scoring opportunities in the opening half, which ended nil-all. Both teams were aggressive in the opening segment, with Guyana controlling most of the possession. Upon resumption, the…

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