Category: Sports

The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has defended its decision to impose a 20 percent levy on the contract fees of its T20 stars playing in overseas domestic tournaments, saying revenue raised will be used to aid the development of players in the territories. A statement from the WICB released on Tuesday morning, says some of the funds will be disbursed as an incentive for territories to “expose new cricket talent”. The unprecedented move by the WICB proposed to take 20 percent of T20 players’ contract fees in exchange for…

Read More

– shifts focus to CMRC meet Last Sunday’s “Drag Warz 2” brought the curtains down on what the Guyana Motor Racing &Sports Club (GMR&SC) President Raj Boodhoo hails as a successful drag racing season and now the focus for the club will be the hosting of the final leg of the Caribbean Motor Racing Championships (CMRC) on November 13 at the South Dakota Circuit, Timehri. When Guyana Times International Sport spoke to Boodhoo he explained that “Sunday’s drag racing meet was successful, it helped build the hype for the highly…

Read More

– 10 North American teams confirmed From November 4 through 6, 43 exciting matches will be played in Guyana’s leading softball tournament, Guyana Softball Cup, at venues throughout the City and at the Ogle Community Centre ground. This was revealed by the executives of the Guyana Floodlights Softball Cricket Association (GFSCA) at the launch of Guyana Softball Cup six at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) Lance Gibbs Street Queenstown, Georgetown. A total of 24 teams will vie for honours in the Open and Master categories in the tournament which is…

Read More

By Akeem Greene The National Football team, the Golden Jaguars are in round three of the Scotiabank Men’s Caribbean Cup, and if they progress, a historic achievement will occur as they will qualifying for the prestigious Gold Cup for the first time ever. The first two hurdles the team must cross are that of nemesis Suriname and the formidable Jamaica Reggae Boyz and according to Head Coach, Jamaal Shabazz, the team must rise to the challenge. Speaking to the media on Wednesday evening at the team’s final practice session at…

Read More

The Independent Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel hearing to determine whether West Indies cricketer Andre Russell violated a whereabouts clause is scheduled to resume this morning at 10:00 at Jamaica Conference Centre in Kingston. Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO), represented by attorney-at-law Lackston Robinson, alleges that the 28-year-old Jamaican player was negligent for three filing failures between January 1, 2015 and July 25, 2015. On September 28, during the previous sitting of the hearing, Queen’s Counsel Patrick Foster, the lead attorney representing Russell, probed possible procedural breaches related to two alleged filing failures…

Read More

It was hard to work out which captain was more stunned after South Africa’s incredible win over Australia in Durban. But it was left to Faf du Plessis to sum up a result that looked highly unlikely when Australia ran up 371 batting first at Kingsmead, and even more so when a middle order stumble left South Africa needing a miracle – duly provided by a thumping innings from David Miller. “To win a game like that when you’re supposed to lose, when you’re down and out then you have…

Read More

Rockaway cricket club wins CCL west division championship.   The Rockaway cricket club wins the CCL west division championship against Pioneer cricket club. The match was played at 150th st and rockaway blvd, the weather was sunny and ready to play. Javed from Rockaway and Darmin from Pioneer went to spin the toss.Pioneer won the toss and elected to batted first making a total of 174 runs for 3 wickets. M.Persaud had the top score of 68 runs, and T.Singh makeing 65 runs. For the bowling side Mark tyrrell of…

Read More

Guyanese golfers had an impressive outing in neighbouring Suriname at the weekend at the Suriname Republic Bank Open Invitational Golf Tournament. Among the victors from Guyana were 2015 Digicel Guyana Open champion Shanella Webster and rookie Deanand ‘Deno’ Bissessar, who was on his inaugural trip to the event. While Veteran female golfer Christine Sukhram finished second in one of the many categories. Webster took the Ladies’ first or ‘A’ Flight by storm, in the just concluded event which was held at the Golf club Paramaribo Course, Paramaribo. She created history…

Read More

In what can already be deemed a tremendous debutant season for Calvin Ming in the Formula 1600 series, Ming added the icing to the cake on Sunday at the Virginia International Raceway when he finished second in the 21st and final race of the series. Ming, who narrowly missed the podium with two fourth place finishes on the earlier rounds on Friday and Saturday required a photo finish to determine the winner, as himself and championship winner, Neil Verhagen, were too close to call at the chequered flag. However Neil,…

Read More