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India ease home in rain-hit game

Sports Page -- Openers Ajinkya Rahane and Robin Uthappa made fifties as India beat Bangladesh by seven wickets after a nearly three-hour rain interruption during their chase. Bangladesh rustled up 272 for 9 after choosing to bat on a slow…

Results of SKNFA Matches Played on Saturday 14th June, 2014

Sports Page – * St. Thomas/Trinity Strikers will remain in the SKNFA Premier Division for 2014 - 15 season after defeating Trafalgar Southstars, second in Division 1 in the one match playoff Played at Warner Park On Saturday. St.…

Chanderpaul second on ICC Test batting rankings

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (CMC) -- West Indies batting star Shivnarine Chanderpaul has leapfrogged Kumar Sangakkara into second position for Test batsmen while three fast bowlers in the regional side have returned to the ICC rankings.…

Italy’s Pirlo drives fear in England’s hearts

MANGARATIBA, Brazil (AFP) - As expected from a man of few words, Andrea Pirlo has shrugged off suggestions his role for Italy at the World Cup carries special status as the Azzurri prepare to face England in Manaus today. Yet evidence from…

Blake set to strike at NY Grand Prix

(Sports Page)-- IT promises to be a festival of speed at today's New York Grand Prix IAAF Diamond League meeting at Icahn Stadium in Randalls Island. A number of top Jamaican sprinters, led by former IAAF World Champions Yohan Blake, in…

PJ’s secures third spot in Local League

(Sports Page)—It was indeed a hard fought game and the few spectators on hand, were highly entertained. This as the local Basketball league action continued on Thursday night with the match up for third place honours between PJ’S and the…

Bonner century leads HPC to series sweep

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, (CMC) - Jamaican opener Nkrumah Bonner unleashed a hostile century to catapult West Indies High performance Centre to a six wicket victory over Bangladesh A in the third and final One Day game of a three match series…

Root ton caps England’s revival

(Sports Page)— Joe Root accepted the opportunity to put a disrupting Ashes series behind him by marking the onset of England's Test summer with a third hundred once again replete with promise. It was a polished affair against a Sri Lanka…

Dhoni only cricketer on Forbes’ high-earners’ list

(Sports Page)— MS Dhoni, the India captain, is the only cricketer on the list of 100 highest-paid athletes in the world. He is also, obviously, the only Indian on the list. At 22, he has fallen six places from the list released in 2013,…

Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray falter on bad day for big stars

(CNN) -- Rafael Nadal, the man who stood on top of the tennis world after winning his ninth French Open title last weekend, was brought back to earth with a bump Thursday. The world No.1, so dominant on the clay at Roland Garros, was…

Local Basketball League interestingly poised

Sports Page -- President of the Nevis Amateur Basketball Association, (NABA), Ms Wanda Parry is urging local Basketball fans to turn up at the Grell Hull Stevens Netball Complex to witness the island’s top Basketballers in action. The…

Debutant Craig stars in huge NZ win

Sports Page -- Tim Southee and offspinner Mark Craig demolished West Indies for the second time in successive days at Sabina Park to record New Zealand's second Test win in the Caribbean. Craig took four wickets in the final innings to…

Results of SKNFA Matches Played on Wednesday 11th June , 2014

Sports Page -- Junior League At St. Pauls Playing Field S. L. Horsford St. Pauls United 3 vs SPD United 1                                             (Half Time 2 - 1) Scoring for S. L. Horsford St. Pauls United Carrick Thomas struck…