September 2003 News Archive

USA News Topic

J'ca Snaps Guyana Win Streak

JOHN AARON reports on the Ed Ahmad New York Caribbean Cricket Cup

Team Guyana's unbeaten run into the Ed Ahmad New York Caribbean Cricket Cup competition came to a screeching halt at the hands of a rejuvenated Team Jamaica.

In the most recent round of the tournament, Guyana faced off against Jamaica at Idlewild Park in Rosedale, Queens and the showdown between arguably two of the strongest teams in the tournament lived up to expectation despite the absence of Jamaicans Dave Wallace and Rohan Alexander.

Jamaica News Topic

Surrey Signs Franklyn Rose

English county champions Surrey have signed Jamaican fast bowler Franklyn Rose as an overseas replacement for Pakistan's Saqlain Mushtaq for the rest of the season, according to wire reports.

Rose went straight into the Surrey team for today's National League first division match away to Kent at Canterbury where he made an early breakthrough by dismissing England batsman Robert Key.

Reliable Sources News Topic

Barthley Tipped for CCOO Job

Former West Indies Under-19 captain Zoral Barthley has emerged as the frontrunner to replace Michael Hall as chief cricket operations officer at the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB).

Barthley, an Antiguan opening batsman who led the Young West Indies in three 'Tests' in 1985, was included in a shortlist alongside Barry Collymore, the Barbadian administrator who last served as spokesman for the Shell Academy in Grenada.