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3 Guyanese in Windies squad ahead of Women’s T20 Championship
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Shemaine Campbelle
ith roughly 100 days left before the start of the ICC Women’s T20 Championship, the defending champs have announced their 20-member squad featuring three Guyanese. The trio of ladies: Sheneta Grimmond, Shabika Gajnabi and Guyana captain Shemaine Campbell were named in the side after top performances in the Super50 and T20 Blaze championships. The women have been in two high-performance camps since
April 30, they took a working break in June where they represented their national sides for the Women’s Championship where Barbados and Jamaica emerged as the Super50 and T20 Blaze winners respectively. Up until July 16, the squad of 20 will be in Antigua for another high-performance programme which will include on- and off-the-field sessions not limited to yoga, nutrition, mental conditioning along with simulation of game conditions and other cricketing techniques. In May, the women in camp were also exposed to the UNICEF Child Protection course. The squad will have a warmup in September when they host South Africa. Head
Coach Henderson Springer and his support team are running the sessions in Antigua. Shania Abdool, Aria Fortune, Grimmond and Karishma Ramharack are the new additions, while Natasha McLean, Chinelle Henry, Akeira Peters and Gajnabi make a return to international colours. The squad also features top-calibre players like Deandra Dottin, Merissa Aguilleira, Anisa Mohammed, Hayley Matthews, and others. Meanwhile, Captain Stafanie Taylor is unavailable owing to other commitments and will play for the defending champions Western Storm in the UK in the Kia Super League which ends in August. The World Twenty20 Championship will be held November 9-24. The 20-member squad in
Shabika Gajnabi
camp reads: Shania Abdool – TT; Merissa Aguilleira – TT; Shemaine Campbelle – Guyana; Shamilia Connell – Barbados; Britney Cooper – TT; Deandra Dottin – Barbados; Afy Fletcher – Windward Islands; Aria Fortune – Windward Islands; Shabika Gajnabi – Guyana; Sheneta Grimmond – Guyana;
Chinelle Henry – Jamaica; Qiana Joseph – Windward Islands; Kycia Knight – Barbados; Hayley Matthews – Barbados; Natasha McClean – Jamaica; Anisa Mohammed – TT; Chedean Nation – Jamaica; Akeira Peters – Windward Islands; Karishma Ramharack – TT; and Shakera Selman – Barbados.
Herath may retire from FYF dominates international cricket in November R angana Herath may retire from international cricket in November following the three-match Test series against England. Provided he plays every Sri Lanka Test until then, he will finish five Tests short of 100. Herath had earlier retired from the shorter formats in order to lengthen his Test career, but now, aged 40, he believed it was time to consider stepping
away from all formats. "Maybe my final series will be the England series later in the year," he told BBC Sinhala. "Following this South Africa series, there is another three months until the England series. For now, this is what I've planned for. There comes a time for every cricketer when they have to stop playing. I think that time has come for me." Herath is the most suc-
Dilruwan Perera and Rangana Herath have a chat
cessful left-arm bowler in Tests, having taken 418 wickets. He is the last remaining international cricketer to have played in the 1990s, having made his debut in September 1999. It was only after 2009, however, that his Sri Lanka career truly took off. More than 90 per cent of his wickets have come in the last nine years of his career. "I'm really glad I've been able to play as long as I have," Herath said. "But the most important thing is that of those 18 years, I wasn't able to play for Sri Lanka for about seven of those years. I'm proud of what I was able to do in those seven years – the training I did, and the desire I had, especially." Herath also said he would talk with Sri Lanka's Coach and Captain following the South Africa series, before finalising his plans. He believes Sri Lanka's spin bowling would be in good hands following his retirement, with Dilruwan Perera around as an experienced spinner, alongside younger bowlers such as Akila Dananjaya and Lakshan Sandakan. (ESPNcricinfo)
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orgotten Youths Foundation (FYF) once again asserted its dominance in the world of boxing over the past weekend as it conquered yet another tournament on Saturday. The action went down at the Andrew “Six Head” Lewis Gym and saw participation from a considerable number of Georgetown boxers. FYF was joined by Young Achievers ( Y A ) ; Harpy
The winner’s circle for Saturday’s event included: Moses Crawford (FYF); Dwayne Baptiste (FYF); Mark Crawford (FYF); Sean Graham (FYF); Stephon McDonald (FYF); Wayne Castello (FYF); Travis Iverany (FYF); Malachi Sealey (YA) and Alvin Harripersaud (MBG). The winning boxers will hope t o
Eagles (HE), and Mabaruma Boxing Gym (MBG), which was the only out-of-town gym. The FYF which continues to gather and train young boxers had the largest contingent at the competition, thus it was no surprise when it copped eight of 10 bouts to win the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) Mike Parris Schoolboys and Juniors Preparatory Tournament by a landslide.
be selected as part of the four-member team that will represent Guyana at the Caribbean Schoolboys and Juniors tournament which is slated for the National Gymnasium from August 17-19. So far, other Caribbean countries such as Grenada, the Cayman Islands, St Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago have expressed an interest in the tournament.