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Guyana, St Lucia to host Women’s Twenty20 World Cup prelims
... Antigua and Barbuda to stage semi-finals and final The Guyana National Stadium will host preliminary matches during the ICC Women’s World Twenty20 2018. (Adrian Narine photo)
ANTIGUA and Barbuda, Guyana and St Lucia were yesterday confirmed by the International Cricket Council (ICC) as the venues for the ICC Women’s Twenty20 World Cup , which will be staged November 9-24, 2018. Hosts Windies will defend the title they won with an eight-wicket victory over Australia in Kolkata in 2016. Stafanie Taylor, who was named captain of the ICC Women’s T20I Team-of-the-Year 2017, won the Player-of-theSeries award in India and is expected to once again lead the Windies in front of a passionate home crowd. The three venues were selected by Cricket West Indies (CWI) through a bidding process and have been ratified by the ICC. The preliminary round matches will be held at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence, and Darren Sammy Stadium in Saint Lucia, while Sir Vivian Richards
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Terrence Alli to be inducted into New FIFA confirms VAR will be used at 2018 World Cup York State Boxing Hall of Fame
VAR has been used in EFL and FA Cup ties in England. (Bryn Lennon/Getty Images)
FLASHBACK: Guyana’s Terrence Alli (right) exchanges punches with legend Julio Cesar Chavez for the WBC World Super Lightweight Title. (Photo credit: Holly Stein/Allsport) ONE of Guyana’s most fa- the man many felt had placed Howard Beach, New York. mous boxers, Terrence Alli, Guyana on the world stage long “This day is for all these was over the weekend named before Andrew ‘Six Heads’ inductees who worked so hard as an inductee of the New Lewis won the country’s first for our enjoyment,” NYSBHOF York State Boxing Hall of World Title in 2001. president Bob Duffy said, “and Fame. The seventh annual New for what they did for New York Alli, 58, made his debut York State Boxing Hall of State boxing.” in 1979 against Winston Go- Fame (NYSBHOF) induction odridge, winning on points, dinner will be held on April Turn to page 20 and it was the perfect start for 29, at Russo’s On the Bay in
VIDEO replays will be used at the World Cup for the first time and talks are underway with potential sponsors to appear when the technology is used, a FIFA executive said yesterday. Soccer’s rule-making panel met to assess recent trials ahead of video assistant referees (VAR) being officially approved by FIFA for use in Russia in June and July. “Definitely VAR will happen,” FIFA chief commercial officer Philippe Le Floc’h told The Associated Press. “It’s great to have technology in
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football because this is also a fairness thing.” Referees were assisted for the first time by high-tech aids at a World Cup in 2014 when goal-line technology was used. That system sees a message instantly flash on referees’ watches saying only whether the ball crossed the line. Video replays could lead to delays in games in Russia as different angles are reviewed, presenting an opportunity for FIFA to brand up the segment on the global broadcast feed. “We are talking to various
technological companies who are very interested with what we are doing on the technology side of things,” Floc’h said on board the World Cup trophy tour plane during a stop at London Stansted Airport. The final decision on allowing replays to become part of the rules of the game falls to the International Football Association Board on March 2 when its annual meeting is held at FIFA. Replays are used when there is a “clear and obvious error” involving goals, penalty awards, red cards, and mistaken identity.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2018