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Golden Jaguars drawn in Group 5 of 2016/17 CFU Caribbean Cup By Rawle Toney GUYANA’S Senior Men’s National Football team, more popularly known as the Golden Jaguars have been drawn in Group five of the 2016/17 CFU Caribbean Cup tournament. The competition, which is scheduled to take place during officially-sanctioned FIFA international match periods giving Member Associations the opportunity to select their best possible teams, will kick off in March (21-29) with all of the countries except Haiti, Jamaica, St Vincent and the Grenadines and Trinidad and Tobago, who are all still participating in FIFA World Cup Qualifiers. The Golden Jaguars were drawn alongside Puerto Rico
Veteran sports broadcaster Lance Whittaker was assisted with the Round 1 draw by CFU executive member Sonia Bien-Aime.
and Anguilla, in the 26-team Caribbean Football Union (CFU) tournament which is being sponsored by Scotiabank. Round two of the Championship is scheduled for May and Round three in October. The 5th Place playoff will take place in November
Calvin Ming storms into Barbados Suzuki Radical Series
and the finals in May 2017. The top four teams will qualify to the 2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup. Since their 2018 World Cup qualifier against the ‘Vincy Heat’ (St Vincent and the Grenadines), the Golden Jaguars were dormant and now, head coach Jamaal
Shabazz will reassemble his troops to better their 2007 showing at the tournament, where Guyana narrowly missed out on a spot in the semi-final and ultimately the CONCACAF Gold Cup. The 2007 edition of the tournament which started in 1989, was said to be Guyana’s best showing, with the Charles Pollard-captained side playing undefeated in Group I with wins over Antigua and Barbuda (6-0), Dominican Republic (2-0) and Guadeloupe (3-2) in French Island of Martinique. In the final group stage which would have determined the CFU’s representatives at the 2007 Gold Cup, Guyana were placed alongside Cuba, St Vincent and the Grenadines and Guadeloupe. Turn to page 20 ►
Off-spinner Ajit Chandila was handed a life ban by BCCI.
MELBOURNE, Australia (Reuters) - West Indies batsman Chris Gayle smashed fifty from 12 balls for the Melbourne Renegades in the Big Bash League yesterday to match India's Yuvraj Singh's record for the fastest half-century in Twenty20 cricket. Left-hander Yuvraj achieved the feat against England in a group match at the inaugural World Twenty20 in 2007 in South Africa, smashing fast bowler Stuart Broad for six sixes in one over. Opening batsman Gayle plundered 21-year-old Adelaide Strikers bowler Greg West, playing his second T20 match, for 27 runs in the first over and hit the last four deliveries for six. His seventh maximum took Gayle past his half-century as he deposited spinner Travis Head over the long-on boundary. Head dismissed him five Chris Gayle smacks one deliveries later for a 17-ball 56 with Gayle caught by wicketduring his 17-ball 56 against Adelaide Strikers keeper Tim Ludeman from a in Melbourne, yesterday. top edge. By Stephan Sookram
Calvin Ming in his newly acquired Suzuki SR3 Radical.
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OVERSEAS-based Guyanese Calvin Ming is entering the Suzuki-powered Radical SR3 RS class of the 2016 Suzuki Challenge Series season which begins in Barbados this weekend. Ming, the Formula 4 driver who resides in Florida, is one of six new entrants to the series which commenced last year in Barbados and he has set his eyes on the ultimate prize in the championship. Chronicle Sport spoke to the lead driver of team C.M Racing who confirmed that he will pull both the Radical Series and the NACAM (Norteamérica,Centroamérica, Caribe y Norte de Sudamérica) F4 Championship Championships once the dates do not clash. “It’s all about taking the experience and incorporating it. I’m really excited about this weekend though I haven’t driven the car as yet, I’m still pretty excited. I like any form of racing,” said team C.M’s lead driver. He added, “I’ve seen them race before when I kart in the North America so I’m really excited to be trying it out,” confessed the 19-year-old. Ming, a former shifter kart champion locally as well as a North American competitor, will shift his focus this weekend from the Monocoque setting of his f4 machine to the SR3 spaceframe Le Mans Prototype (LMP) chassis of the Radical SR3. He is the second Turn to page 20 ► TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016