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GUYANA CHRONICLE Monday, September 25, 2017
Wales, Pouderoyen register wins as Namilco U-17 league continues
Wales united scorers from R-L Dan Boston and Shumar Brain
WALES United and Pouderoyen both registered wins as action continued in the Namilco U-17 league organised by the West Demerara Football Association (WDFA). In the first game, Wales united beat Jetty Gunners 2-1 in an almost one sided match all three goals coming from their players. Dan Boston scored in the 15th to give the Wales the lead before an own goal by Shquile Dos Santos brought the game level again.
Test matches in England could be cut from five to four days under ECB plans By Nick Hoult
THE traditional five-day Test, which has been a feature of the English summer for nearly 70 years, will end in 2020 if the England & Wales Cricket Board(ECB) successfully argues for the introduction of four-day matches. The ECB is leading the push for Test matches to be reduced to four days after the 2019 Ashes summer, believing it is the best way to breathe new life into the game’s oldest format and is confident it has the support of broadcasters and host grounds. A four-day Test would start in England half an hour earlier at 10.30am to give teams more time to bowl the increased number of overs in a day and with all venues now having floodlights, play would be extended where possible. Sources have told Telegraph Sport the ECB will put
its weight behind the switch to four-day Tests at the next board meeting of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in New Zealand in October, which will discuss the ongoing restructuring of the game and introduction of a Test championship in 2020. The ECB’s support for four-day Test cricket will alarm traditionalists, who already feel the game is being squeezed by too much Twenty20 with the introduction of a new league in England in two years’ time. Reducing Test matches to four days will help the ECB and other boards schedule their domestic Twenty20 leagues and ease the workload on players. It is understood the ECB’s new broadcast deal does not guarantee Test matches will be scheduled for five days, removing one potential obstacle for change. A shift to four-day Tests would enable the ECB to guarantee Thursday starts
for each match, which is the preferred option for Test match grounds as it allows them to maximise corporate income. Next summer, England and India are squeezing a five-match Test series into seven weeks, forcing Trent Bridge to host a game that starts on Saturday, making the sale of corporate hospitality boxes very difficult. Test matches have been scheduled over five days since 1973. A series that year between New Zealand and Pakistan was the last to be played over four days. But South Africa announced last week it plans to play a four-day Test starting on Boxing Day against Zimbabwe and the ICC are set to give it approval at its October board meeting. More experiments with four days are expected around the world over the next 12 months as the initiative gathers momentum. (Telegraph)
WADA to begin audit of Russian anti-doping agency (REUTERS) - The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) will begin an audit of Russia’s anti-doping programme this week as it prepares to make a recommendation on whether to reinstate the Russian agency, the organisation said on Sunday. RUSADA has been suspended by WADA since a report published in November 2015, led by Canadian law professor Richard McLaren, found evidence of state-sponsored doping and accused it of systematically violating anti-doping regulations. Russian authorities deny there was a state-backed doping programme, but have pledged to follow international recommendations to get the suspension lifted. WADA’s compliance review committee will hold a special meeting on Oct. 24 to hear a re-
port on the audit, the anti-doping agency said in a statement after its executive board met in Paris. The review committee will then make a recommendation to WADA’s board meeting in November on whether to reinstate
WADA President Craig Reedie
RUSADA. The Russian agency last month appointed a new director general as part of Moscow’s push to rehabilitate its tarnished sporting image and
overturn a ban on most of its track-and-field athletes competing internationally. The executive committee, which heard a report on Russia’s progress, again emphasised RUSADA must fulfil a roadmap it developed with WADA and Russian officials before any recommendation on reinstatement can be made. This includes Russia publicly accepting the outcomes of the McLaren investigation into the country’s doping violations and providing access to stored urine samples in the Moscow laboratory. More than a dozen national anti-doping agencies have called for Russia to be banned from the 2018 winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, but WADA President Craig Reedie has criticised the agencies, saying the request was not helpful.
It would take a Shumar Brain 36th minute intervention to set the game once more in favour of the Wales side. In the second game, Pouderoyen FC beat Uitvlugt 3-0 with a double from Keanu Lawrence in the 11th and 60th while Shamur Thomas chipped in his lone goal in the 17th minute.
Pouderoyen FC scorers from (R-L) Shamur Thomas and Keanu Lawrence