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GUYANA CHRONICLE Thursday March 19, 2015
Trott set for return on Windies Test tour LONDON, England (CMC) – Jonathan Trott is poised to make his return to international cricket following an 18-month break after being named yesterday in a 16-man England for the tour of West Indies, starting next month. The 33-year-old righthander will be joined by three uncapped players – Adam Lyth, Adil Rashid and Mark Wood – on the tour which runs from April 6 to May 3 and includes three Tests. As expected, the squad will be led by Alistair Cook, and includes Barbados-born seamer Chris Jordan and key senior players Ian Bell and James
Anderson. Trott had pulled out of the 2013-2014 Ashes Series following the first Test in Brisbane suffering with a “stress related illness”. However, he subsequently scored heavily for Warwickshire in the first class season and also showed excellent form for England A in the tour of South Africa last year. “Jonathan Trott produced some outstanding performances for Warwickshire last summer scoring five centuries and also made an unbeaten double-hundred during the recent successful England Lions tour,” national selector James Whitak-
Jonathan Trott er said. 3 763 runs at an average of “He is a player of proven 46, with nine centuries. international pedigree and Lyth, meanwhile, is a we are delighted to welcome 27-year-old left-handed him back into the squad,” opener while his Yorkshire Whitaker said of Trott who teammate Rashid, also 27, in 49 Tests has accumulated is a leg-spinner who has al-
ready played five one-dayers. Wood is a seamer who has played a handful of first class matches for Durham and was picked for England Lions last year, only to return home after one match with injury. “Adam, Adil and Mark are all players who have performed impressively over the last 12 months and they will now have an opportunity to push for a regular place in the Test side’s starting line-up,” said Whitaker. Seamer Chris Woakes has been sidelined with injury and is joined by batsman Moeen Ali who is struggling with a side strain, but may
be considered for the latter stages of the tour once he recovers. England face West Indies in the first Test in Antigua on April 13, before travelling to Grenada for the second Test bowling off April 21, with the final Test carded for Kensington Oval in Barbados starting May 1. SQUAD – Alastair Cook (captain) James Anderson, Jonny Bairstow, Gary Balance, Ian Bell, Stuart Broad, Jos Buttler, Chris Jordan, Adam Lyth, Liam Plunkett, Joe Root, Adil Rashid, Ben Stokes, James Tredwell, Jonathan Trott, Mark Wood.
2nd Star Party Rentals 11-race cycle programme set for Saturday THE SECOND Star Party Rentals 11-race cycle programme which is being organised by National cycling coach Hassan Mohammed is fixed for this Saturday around the inner circuit of the National Park and will commence at 09:00hrs. Defending champion Godfrey Pollydore, a one-time leading cyclist in
Guyana is doubtful for the event, having suffered a fall during last Saturday’s Diamond Mineral Water-sponsored 35-lap event at the same venue. Last year, Pollydore recorded one hour 17 minutes 00.68 seconds in winning the event and this time around, that time is expected to be broken, since a number of riders
are in top shape and will be going all out to eclipse that record. Among the pedal-pushers to face the starter are: Orville Hinds, Michael Anthony, Raynauth Jeffrey, Romello Crawford, Marlon `Fishy’ Williams and Paul DeNobrega, all of whom have already recorded victories since the 2015 cycle season got under way in January.
Crawford who is in good nick at the moment won the junior/juveniles 10-lap race last year in 25 minutes 39.91 seconds but is not expected to start in this event on Saturday, hence as new champion will be crowned. This means that Romello’s sibling Jabon Crawford can very well be that person, having registered a shock
20-kilometre km walk record falls again
hoping to make a successful defence of that title on Saturday. Other races on the day’s card include BMX races for boys and girls six to 12 years of age as well as a five-lap event for veterans Over-50 years and one for veterans Over-60 years. The day’s activity will see the presence of its sponsor Lennox Cush, a former national cricketer turned businessman who will assist in the presentation of prizes to the respective winners.
Farm to host double-wicket competition
... Suzuki sets new mark (REUTERS) - The men’s 20 kilometres race walk world record was broken for the second time in a week last Sunday when Japan’s Yusuke Suzuki set a new mark at the Asian Race Walking Championships. Exactly a week after Frenchman Yohann Diniz set a mark of 1:17:02 in Arles, the 27-year-old Suzuki shaved almost half a minute off it, to finish in a time of 1:16:36 in his hometown of Nomi, Ishikawa Prefecture. Suzuki, a renowned fast starter, blasted away from the outset, covering the first six kilometres in 22:53 and going through the halfway mark in a national 10-kilometre record of 38:05. His blistering pace dropped off slightly with around four kilometres to go, but he finished strongly, securing his third Asian title, after victories in 2010 and 2013.
victory last weekend over the same distance at the very venue. Junior Niles will be out to make a successful defence of the veterans’ Under- 50 five-lap race he won last year in a time of 12 minutes 55 seconds, but he will have to be wary of Kennard Lovell and Ian `Dumb Boy’ Jackson. Avenash Ramkellawan won the boys and girls 12-14 years three-lap race last year in nine minutes 45 seconds and will be
Yusuke Suzuki
AFTER an absence of 12 years, competitive cricket will make a return to the Farm Community Centre ground on the East Bank of Demerara, when that community hosts a double-wicket cricket competition on March 29. The event is being sponsored by D. Mangal Vulcanizing Establishment of Herstelling Public Road, and organised by the Farm Cricket Club as part of its fund-raising activities and has an entrance fee of $3 000. Twelve teams are expected to participate namely Ruimveldt, Eccles, Nandy Park, Providence, Combined United, Farm, Diamond, Sandpipers, Silverbullet, North Soesdyke, Herstelling and Laluni. All teams are asked to send a representative to a meeting set for tomorrow at the club’s pavilion, to discuss the playing conditions and make the draw.