Jamaica will aim to go a step closer to qualify for the 2009 FIFA Under-20 World Cup when they face hosts St. Vincent and the Grenadines in their final game of the Caribbean Football Union Under 20 finals this evening.
Trinidad and Tobago drew with hosts Barbados on yesterday’s fourth and final day of their first round match in the West Indies Cricket Board regional four-day competition at the Police Sports Club.
The 2009 Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association/Grace Shield competitions will bowl off today with the first round of the rural area knockout competition. 30-34 games are scheduled for today across eight zone.
West Indies and host New Zealand will face off at McLean Park this evening at 6 p.m. Jamaica time in the final One-Day International that will decide the rain-hit series.
Nuwan Kulasekara and Ajanthra Mendis took three wickets each to lead Sri Lanka to an easy 130-run victory over Zimbabwe in a triangular limited-overs international match today in Mirpur, Bangladesh.
Alonzo Adlam pumped in a hat trick and piloted Jamaica to a 4-1 victory over the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Under-20 football finals in St Vincent and the Grenadines yesterday.
Newcomer Gavin Wallace took a record eight-wicket haul yesterday to bowl title-holders Jamaica to a six-wicket victory over Leeward Islands on the third day of their first-round regional four-day match at Warner Park in St Kitts.
Defending champions Portmore United are sole leaders of the Digicel Premier League after Harbour View went down 1-0 to fourth-place Boys Town at Harbour View Mini Stadium in a late game last night.
Jamaica will be in action this evening when the final round of the Caribbean qualifying for the CONCACAF Under-20 championship kicks off in St Vincent and the Grenadines.
The second track meet for the 2009 season, the Douglas Forrest Invitational, will take place on Saturday, January 17 at the National Stadium East field.
The 2009 West Indies Cricket Board four-day championship bowls off tomorrow with defending champions Jamaica playing hosts Leeward Islands at Warner Park in St Kitts and Nevis.
Jamaica will begin their Caribbean qualifying for the CONCACAF Under-20 championship against Haiti when the competition kicks off tomorrow evening in St Vincent and the Grenadines.
Jamaica’s senior cricketers will stage their final training session later this afternoon at the Edgar Gilbert Sporting Complex in St Kitts and Nevis ahead of the 2009 regional four-day championships, which bowls off tomorrow.
Vere Technical High School yesterday defeated Glenmuir High by 167 runs at Bushy Park in May Pen to win the inaugural Clarendon Cricket Association’s Parish high schools competition for the Williams/Dennis Memorial Trophy.
Tivoli Gardens and Boys Town will contest the first quarterfinal of the Western Union sponsored Kingston and St Andrew Football Association’s Jackie Bell knockout this afternoon.
West Indies batsman Kieron Pollard was reprimanded by the International Cricket Council, ICC, for damaging a dressing room door after his dismissal in last night’s limited-overs loss to New Zealand.
Champions Jamaica arrived late last night in St Kitts and Nevis without all-rounder Lorenzo Ingram to tackle hosts Leeward Islands in the new-look 2009 West Indies Cricket Board Four-day Regional Tournament.
Jamaica’s national Under-20 footballers departed for St Vincent and the Grenadines to contest the final stage of the Caribbean qualifying for the CONCACAF Under-20 championship.
The West Indies last night failed to take an unassailable 2-nil lead over New Zealand going down by seven wickets in the third limited overs cricket international at the Westpac Stadium.
