Commonwealth Games: CGF seeking to avoid fixture clashes with Birmingham 2022
The Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Kamla Persad-Bissessar, whose ancestors migrated from Bihar to the Caribbean islands in the 19th century, visited the state's Bhelupur village on Wednesday afternoon.
Former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner said he was sold the World Cup television rights for Trinidad and Tobago for as little as $1 in return for supporting FIFA president Sepp Blatter in soccer elections.
US Soccer said they expect to announce an interim coach within the next seven to 10 days, who will oversee two planned friendlies in November.
After owning the champion Indian Premier League franchise Kolkata Knight Riders, the Bollywood superstar has now put his money in the Caribbean Premier League, a potential money-spinner.
Jamaican world champion Yohan Blake missed the fastest 100 metres of the year by the blink of an eye on Wednesday, his 9.84 seconds a mere 0.02 behind world record holder and training partner Usain Bolt's mark.
While Trinbago Knight Riders ended Guyana Amazon Warriors' 11-match winning streak beating them by four wickets in a match reduced to 17 overs, Barbados Tridents edged out St. Kitts & Nevis Patriot by six runs at the Brian Lara Academy here on Tuesday.
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A depleted Indian team, sans senior players Sachin Tendulkar and regular captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, arrived in the Carbbean for a limited overs series against the West Indies, starting on Saturday.
Sherwin Ganga sizzled with a late blitzkrieg as Trinidad and Tobago defeated debutants Ruhunu Eleven by five wickets, in a low-scoring inaugural Champions League Twenty20 qualifier clash in Hyderabad, on Monday.
Some of the world's best Twenty20 players would be seen in action at the Champions League Twenty20 cricket tournament which gets underway with the qualifying round in Hyderabad, on Monday.
West Indies batting legend Brian Lara, in Delhi for a cricket clinic, talks about the disappointment of being ignored at the IPL auction, India's chances at the upcoming World Cup and his life after quiting the game.
This edition of the tournament will also witness a qualifying event in Hyderabad from September 19 to 21 followed by the main event from September 23 to October 9.
A 65-year-old man was sentenced to life in prison for conspiring in a 9/11-like terror plot to blow up the John F Kennedy International Airport in New York by exploding fuel tanks and pipelines.
Chennai Super Kings coach Stephen Fleming, on Saturday, declared that the players are focused on winning their next two matches in order to qualify for the semi-finals of the Champions League Twenty20.
The winners of IPL 6 Mumbai Indians will take on Rajasthan Royals, who finished third in the cash-rich tournament, in the inaugural group stage match of the Champions League Twenty20 to be played on September 21 at Sawai Man Singh Stadium in Jaipur.
Architect of West Indies' splendid 16-run win over India, man-of-the-match pacer Ravi Rampaul said getting early breakthroughs was the key to his side's triumph in the third ODI in Ahmedabad on Monday.
The All India Football Federation heaved a sigh of relief as I-League club Pune FC agreed to release their goalkeeper Subrata Paul and striker Jeje Lalpekhlua for the national team's tour of the Caribbean.
Trinidad & Tobago player Kevon Cooper said that, it was "a dream come true" after he kept his team's semi-final hopes alive with a knock of 11-ball 25 against the Cape Cobras on Tuesday.
Half-centuries from Owais Shah and Dane Vilas were in vain as Trinidad and Tobago staged a dramatic, late onslaught to pull off a sensational two-wicket victory over Cape Cobras in a Champions League Twenty20 thriller at the M A Chidambaram stadium, in Chennai, on Tuesday.
Nothing less than a win will do for Cape Cobras and Trinidad & Tobago when they clash on Tuesday in their last Champions League Twenty20 match of Group A, which is poised tantalisingly with all five teams still in with a chance of making it to the knockout stage.
Chennai Super Kings skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni believes that crucial 28-run knock by Trinidad and Tobago's Kevon Cooper hurt them badly as they face exit from the Champions League Twenty20 after losing Sunday's match.
New South Wales Blues skipper Simon Katich was relived after his move to bowl Steve O'Keefe in the Super Over paid off in their Champions League T20 match, on Wednesday, but felt the batting needed to improve further.
Trinidad & Tobago captain Darren Ganga, on Wednesday, defended his decision to use Ravi Rampaul in the Super Over in their Champions League T20 clash against New South Wales Blues, in Chennai, saying the later has been their best bowler at the death overs.
New South Wales made a sensational fightback by smashing 16 runs in the final over before defeating Trinidad and Tobago via the Super Over Eliminator in a dramatic Champions League Twenty20 match in Chennai on Wednesday.
Mumbai Indians' injury woes just grew in proportion as their opener Davy Jacobs has been ruled out of the Champions League Twenty20 because of a hip injury.
Mumbai Indians might have edged out Trinidad and Tobago by one-wicket in a last-ball thriller of the Champions League Twenty20 in Bangalore but skipper Harbhajan Singh said they didn't deserve to win and the Caribbean side was the better team on the day.
Having clinched a nail-biting victory over Chennai Super Kings, the Harbhajan Singh-led, Mumbai Indians will be hoping to continue their winning run in the Champions League Twenty20 tournament when they take on Trinidad and Tobago in Bangalore on Saturday.
Having clinched a nail-biting victory over Chennai Super Kings, the Harbhajan Singh-led, Mumbai Indians will be hoping to continue their winning run in the Champions League Twenty20 tournament when they take on Trinidad and Tobago in Bangalore on Saturday.
Foreign contingents continued to drop in with nearly 1100 athletes, officials and technical staff from different nations arriving on Sunday for the October 3-14 Commonwealth Games.
The qualifying matches for this year's Champions League Twenty20 will start with West Indian team Trinidad & Tobago taking on Sri Lanka's Ruhunu on September 19 in Hyderabad.
Mohammed is making his comeback after more than a year's gap -- he last played against Bangladesh in an ODI in July last year. The 32-year-old has played nine T20Is and also captained the side in the shortest format.
Six-times Olympic champion Usain Bolt anchored Jamaica to the 4x100 metres relay gold with an emphatic finish to win his first Commonwealth Games medal on Saturday.
India's chances of progressing to the semi-finals of the women's hockey event in the Commonwealth Games received a setback after the home team went down fighting 1-2 to defending champions Australia in their second Pool A match in New Delhi on Wednesday.
Anil Kumble's Royal Challengers Bangalore will be the only IPL side in action in the Champions League Twenty20 on Sunday when it squares off against West Indian underdogs Guyana in the second of the two matches in Centurion.
Lionel Messi and Sergio Aguero struck two goals apiece in Argentina's 7-0 romp against an out-of-sorts Bolivia while Mexico were held 3-3 by Trinidad & Tobago in friendlies in the United States on Friday.
Fiji will lodge an appeal against their exclusion from the 2010 Commonwealth Games with the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Athletes from the Pacific Island nation have been banned from competing at next year's Games in India after Commonwealth leaders, meeting in Trinidad and Tobago, upheld an earlier decision to exlude Fiji. The Commonwealth suspended Fiji in September after the nation failed to meet a deadline for opening talks on a return to democracy.
Images from Day 1 of the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games.
People of the Trinidad and Tobago surprised all when they elected 58-year-old Kamla Persad Bissesar as the country's prime minister. The political coalition led by her won 29 of the 41 seats in parliament, the results of which were announced on May 26. She heads the United National Congress party.
As the three-day Commonwealth Summit of 53 nations is in progress at Port of Spain in Trinidad and Tobago, Canada has come out publicly that they are opposed to the next 2011 Commonwealth summit taking place in Sri Lanka.
