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GUYANA CHRONICLE, Saturday February 20, 2016
New protocol Kent sign South Africa arrangement for IGG fast bowler Kagiso Rabada By Stephan Sookram
KENT have signed South Africa fast bowler Kagiso Rabada as an overseas player for a spell in June and July. The 20-year-old was the top wicket-taker in the recent Test series against England, taking 22 wickets at an average of 21.90 in three matches. Rabada will move to Kent in June after playing in South Africa’s tri-series with Australia and the West Indies. He is eligible for six T20 Blast matches, two Championship games and one One-Day Cup fixture. The right-armer, who had been linked with Durham, took match figures of 13-144 as South Africa won the fourth Test against England by 280 runs at Centurion. Rabada also impressed for the Proteas in the one-day international series against England, taking nine wickets at an average of 19.88 and an economy rate of 4.73 runs an over. His debut for Kent is expected to come in the Twenty20 fixture against Sussex on June 30 and he will remain at the St Lawrence ground until their One-Day Cup fixture at Middlesex on July 24, after which he will report back for international duty against New Zealand in August. Kent did not have an overseas player last season, but Australia bowler Doug Bollinger had a spell with the club in 2014. (BBC Sport)
Kagiso Rabada made his Test debut for South Africa in November 2015.
CRICKET QUIZ CORNER (Saturday February 20, 2016) COMPLIMENTS OF THE TROPHY STALL-Bourda Market & The City Mall (Tel: 225-9230) & AUDREY’S TASTY SNACKETTE-176 Charlotte Street, Georgetown (Tel: 226-4512) Answers to yesterday’s quiz: (1) run out (2) Javed Miandad (PAK) Today’s Quiz: (1) Who is the first Berbician to play Test cricket? (2) What is Shiv Chanderpaul’s highest ODI score? Answers in tomorrow’s issue
A NEW protocol agreement among participating Inter-Guiana Games countries is expected to be inked shortly with a meeting planned to take place in the near future. According to the National Sport Commission’s Director Christopher Jones, Guyana and its neighbour Suriname stand ready to solidify and ink the new protocol agreement and are awaiting the third member, French Guyana, to signal its intention. Though the countries have committed verbally to needing new protocols, they have been unable to ratify and put pen to paper for a new document to govern the multi-discipline event. A meeting was scheduled for last week but had to be postponed on account of the
French Guianese, who only completed the installation of a government in December
of last year. Jones, however, is optimistic that in the near future
his kin directors across the three states will be able to meet to ratify these issues. R e c e n t l y, J o n e s i n an exclusive interview with this newspaper said, “There are certain aspects of the Protocol that puts Guyana at a disadvantage. For example there’s an aspect that speaks to participants being school-aged children being 19 and under and as you would know, Guyana’s academic year ends at 17-18 years old.” He continued, “Suriname and French Guiana would be at an advantage because their athletes would be much older. That aspect of the Protocol I would want to see changed to accommodate our athletes that are currently in school.” It is for this reason that Guyana sought the ratification of the Protocol.
GTT/GRFU League resumes today
FIRST division rugby action resumes at the National Park today in the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU)/Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company’s 15s tournament. League leaders the UG Wolves start round two this weekend against the Police Falcons before Sunday’s action pits the Pepsi Hornets against the Yamaha Caribs. Both the Hornets and the Caribs are on 10 points for a joint second place while the Falcons languish at the bottom of the table with no point. Games will commence at 14:00hrs.
Action between the Yamaha Caribs and the UG Wolves last weeken
NOTABLE DATES TERRENCE Alli is arguably the best lightweight boxer produced by Guyana. In his prime, the son of Mahaicony was swift, tenacious and ready to rumble with all and sundry. Alli could take as much as he could give and stunned many with his ability to absorb punishment. Alli was 32 years old when he collided with Mexican Juan Carlos Nunez on February 20, 1993. The fight was held in Mexico City. By this time the Guyanese had moved up to the junior welterweight division. Nunez lost by technical knockout (TKO) in the fourth round to improve Alli’s record to 52-7-2. The bout marked the last time that Alli secured a victory in boxing. He had eight defeats in the next nine fights
and one no-contest. Based in the USA, Alli returned home in 1992 to fight Steve Larrimore and produced a fifth-round knockout victory. It was the first time that the quick-fisted Guyanese had fought at home since losing to Walter Smith on March 1, 1980. The quick-fisted local idol again returned to Guyana in September 1996 to battle rising start Andrew `Six Head’ Lewis. Alli had three more fights before permanently hanging up his gloves. His career spanned 18 years and he won 52 fights, lost 15 and drew two. Alli boxed a total of 549 rounds for an average of 30 rounds per year.