Topic: Guyana

Injured Muralitharan out of cricket's World T20

Sri Lanka suffered a major blow to their World Twenty20 campaign when veteran off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan was sidelined with a groin injury, officials said on Monday. Muralitharan, 38, who is also the team's vice captain, was injured during Friday's opening match against ...

Injured Muralitharan out of World T20

Sri Lanka suffered a major blow to their World Twenty20 campaign when veteran off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan was sidelined with a groin injury, officials said on Monday. Muralitharan, 38, who is also the team's vice captain, was injured during Friday's opening match against ...

Sarwan, Bravo to miss two ODIs against Zimbabwe

Ramnaresh Sarwan and Dwayne Bravo will remain on the sidelines for the first two One-day Internationals against Zimbabwe, the West Indies Cricket Board announced late Monday. Media reports indicated that Sarwan and Bravo were excluded from a 14-member West Indies squad because ...

Women no longer 'warm-up' act at World T20

The showpiece men's matches at next year's ICC World Twenty20 in the West Indies will take place before, rather than after, the corresponding women's fixtures, organisers said Thursday. At this year's edition in England, the women's semis and final were played before ...

Caribbean leaders to hold crisis talks Friday

Caribbean political leaders are to hold crisis talks on Friday to try to break the prolonged impasse between the West Indies cricket team and its board, mediators said. The latest dispute erupted in July when 13 of the leading West Indies players ...

Caribbean news briefs

JAMAICA: Widow of island's first premier dies; "Lady B" remembered as ardent supporter of unions> KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Gladys Bustamante, the widow of Jamaica's first prime minister and a fierce supporter of women's and workers' rights, has died. She was 97. ...

England look to Flintoff for inspiration

England hope that the return of Andrew Flintoff will spark a revival in the third one-day international against West Indies at Kensington Oval on Friday. Flintoff is set to return to the England line-up from his latest injury - a hip strain ...