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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Tagenarine Chanderpaul and Gudakesh Motie struck contrasting hundreds to punish leaders Barbados Pride on today’s second day of the Regional First Class Championship.Unbeaten overnight on 64, the left-handed Chanderpaul finished on 140 not out as the Guyana Harpy Eagles piled up a massive 490 for seven declared in their first innings at Queen’s Park Oval.Motie, more known for his clever left-arm spin, then arrived at number nine to increase Pride’s misery, lashi...

West Indies batsman Chris Gayle and South African batsman AB De Villiers have become the first cricketers to be inducted into the Hall of Fame of Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Royal Challengers Bangalore.The 42-year-old Gayle represented the franchise between 2011 and 2017.  The batsman never won a title at the club but set a number of records while there, including the highest ever individual T20 score of 175 during the 2013 IPL season.Former RCB skipper Virat Kohli thanked the two gre...

The day belonged to standouts West Terrace Primary Tigers in the Pasty Callender Zone and Fashionation Bayley’s Primary in the Obadele Thompson Zone when the Chefette Frosteez Distance Relay National Primary Schools Athletics Championship (NAPSAC) continued today.

Last Saturday was very special for 75-year-old Winston Chase, who snatched a five-wicket haul for Windward against Carlton in the Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) Intermediate division Twenty20 Shield Competition.A former top division fast bowler but now an off-spinner and playing his first season in the T20 format, Chase took five for 15 off four overs in a massive win by 217 runs in Round 3 at Lucas Street.Windward amassed 258 for six off 20 overs with new coach/player Jafari Toppin slamming...

Great sporting teams prepare for a period of transition.Watching proceedings on Friday at the Brabourne Stadium, you wondered if Mumbai Indians were in the middle of one. Kieron Pollard, finisher supreme, white-ball destroyer and bonafide T20 legend, seemed a pale shadow of the big-hitter he once was.Tim David, among their costliest signings at the mega auction, meanwhile stepped up to play the kind of role Pollard has for more than a decade. It made you wonder why he’s played just four games ...

Bajans have a habit of lambasting the government of the day when things go unattended. In Barbados, the Government is seen as continuous, in that people rarely say the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) Government or the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) Government. They simply say: “Government”. They put the blame squarely at the feet of “Government”.It would be silly for any of the two parties that had the good fortune to govern this country to believe that all complaints come with a political ag...

The countdown is on, as in just two days, the Birmingham 2022 Queen’s Baton Relay will arrive in Barbados, the 53rd destination out of the 72 Commonwealth nations and territories it will be visiting.On Friday, 22 April 2022, Lovie Santana, Trinidad and Tobago’s Chef de Mission for Birmingham 2022, will deliver the Baton to Barbados. Craig Fulton, the United Kingdom’s Deputy High Commissioner to Barbados, will join Cameron Burke, Chef de Mission for Birmingham 2022 and Vice President of Com...

LONDON – Ace West Indies seamer Kemar Roach will play no further part in the English County Championship for Surrey, after picking up a hamstring injury last week against Hampshire.Surrey said Tuesday the 33-year-old had returned to his native Barbados to recuperate after scans confirmed the injury, sustained on day two against Hampshire at the Oval.Roach sent down 38 balls in Hampshire’s first innings and took no further part in the contest which Surrey eventually won by an innings and 17 r...

Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) president Conde Riley has reached a significant landmark, serving as a member of the Board of Management for 25 years.A retired investment banker, who also played the game as a batsman for Combermere School and the now defunct Barclays Sports Club in BCA competitions, Riley talks about his journey on the Board including helping to set up the Everton Weekes Centre of Excellence at Kensington Oval and implementing contracts for both men’s and women’s crickete...

Kolkata Knight Riders head coach Brendon McCullum and assistant coach David Hussey have heaped praise on his star man Andre Russell.“When Dre comes off, he wins games. When he’s on, he’s the very best in the world at what he does and we hope to see a little bit more of it,” McCullum said during an interview with ESPNCricinfo.The 33-year-old Jamaican so far has 106 runs in three matches in the ongoing Indian Premier League including a match-winning 70 not out off just 31 balls in their se...