Jamaica face pace crisis
LESS THAN three weeks before the start of the 2008 Carib Beer Series, the Jamaica cricket team has found itself with a pace-bowling crisis, coach Junior Bennett confirmed yesterday. When contacted yesterday, Bennett said things with the side were "up and down", but added...
Taylor joins top-10 ODI bowlers
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates(CMC): WEST INDIES fast bowler Jerome Taylor has leapt an incredible 13 places up the ICC Rankings for one-day international bowlers and into the top-10 for the time in his career. This follows a Man-of-the-Series winning...
Coach Dyson finally meets Windies players
EAST LONDON, South. Africa, CMC: NEW WEST Indies head coach John Dyson supervised his first training session with the team yesterday, a day after it arrived in South Africa. Dyson, the former Australia batsman and Sri Lanka coach, joined the team on Monday, and he met the players....
Getawayboy on the prowl - Could win today's George Headley Jr Memorial Cup
THE LIGHTLY weighted GETAWAYBOY has a glorious opportunity of winning today's non-winners of three feature race for the George Headley Jr. Memorial Cup over 1400 metres at Caymanas Park. His main rivals in the nine-strong field are the free-running filly MISS SLOOKIE....
Tough task facing Boyz, says Brown
KINGSTON (CMC): CARL BROWN, the man who acted as Brazilian Rene Simoes' assistant during the 1998 World Cup campaign, believes Jamaica's chance of qualifying for the 2010 event in South Africa will be tougher. Jamaica qualified for the 1998 World Cup Finals along with Mexico ...
Nowitzki sinks thestruggling Knicks
NEW YORK (Reuters): DIRK NOWITZKI scored a season-high 36 points to steer the Dallas Mavericks to a 99-89 win over the New York Knicks on Monday night.Nowitzki hit 14 of 23 field-goal attempts, including three of five three-pointers, and was five of seven from the line ...
Saints keep slim play-off hopes alive
ATLANTA (Reuters): DREW BREES passed for three touchdowns to lift the New Orleans Saints to a convincing 34-14 win over the Atlanta Falcons on Monday night. Marques Colston caught two of them as the Saints (6-7) chalked up 24 consecutive points after the scores were tied...
Prosper triumph over Heartbreak
Lucea, Hanover: A DOUBLE strike from captain Olivia Sewell propelled defending champions Prosper to a 3-1 victory over Heartbreak in the opening game of the Lloyd H. Stewart-sponsored Steve 'Shorty' Malcolm/Denton Samuels football tournament at the Lords field...
Surf's up at the 'forgotten end'
PRESIDENT OF the Jamaica Surfing Association (JSA), Billy Wilmot, believes surfing is a viable tourism entity waiting to be developed at the eastern end of the island."Surfing is an aspect of sport that Jamaica has been missing the boat on," Wilmot said. "The eastern end...
Aussies whip Kiwis
SYDNEY (Reuters): ANDREW SYMONDS smashed an unbeaten 85 to lead Australia to a comfortable 54-run win over New Zealand in their Twenty20 international at the WACA in Perth yesterday. Symonds bludgeoned three sixes and seven boundaries in a spectacular 46-ball innings....
'Jaya' shines on day three
COLOMBO (Reuters): JAYAWARDENE scored a superb unbeaten 167 and Michael Vandort made 138 as Sri Lanka reached 379 for four at close of play on the third day of the second Test yesterday. Sri Lanka, who resumed the day on 105 for two, overhauled England's first innings total...
Draw on cards in final Test
BANGALORE, India (Reuters): PAKISTAN GRABBED two quick wickets to spark some life into the third and final Test yesterday after Misbah-ul-Haq's unbeaten century brought the visitors 89 runs short of India's first-innings total of 626.
Gunmen in Mexico kill reporter after street chase
MEXICO CITY (Reuters): Gunmen shot a crime reporter 45 times in a Mexican town plagued by drug violence on Saturday after a high-speed chase as he tried to escape on his motorcycle. Cut off by a vehicle in Uruapan, in the state of Michoacan, Gerardo...
Cops put Boje in hot seat
NEW DELHI (Reuters): INDIAN POLICE questioned former South Africa left-arm spinner Nicky Boje yesterday in connection with the 2000 match-fixing scandal which led to a life ban for former captain Hansie Cronje."We've interrogated him in all the aspects...
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