West Indies’ Shai Hope plays a shot against England during day fi ve of the the second cricket Test match at Headingley
cricket ground, Leeds, England Tuesday Aug. 29, 2017. Nigel French / PA via Associated Press, File
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est CUNY Community College award of
Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year 2019.”
He majored in sports management.
Chance said he was chosen from
among “all the American and international
students attending all 30 of the
City University of New York Community
Colleges.”
In early May, Chance said he finally
won an All-American title in the 400m
track and 400m hurdles, saying it was
“true success at last and a great reward
for all the training and hard work.”
He said he will accept the award on
June 13 at his graduation ceremony.
His fellow Vincentian athletes, Kailon
Kirby and Rogike Thorpe, will also be
graduating. All three were students
at the Thomas Saunders Secondary
School (TSSS) in St. Vincent and the
Grenadines.
Chance said some of his family members
in New York, as well as his sponsor,
who prefers to remain anonymous, will
be, among others, attending the graduation
ceremony.
“I will accept this award with great
honour and carry St. Vincent (and the
Grenadines) in my heart, as I go on
stage,” he said. “Sadly, my mother cannot
attend, as she did not succeed with
her visa to the U.S.A. for some reason.
But she will be there, at the front, the
next time.
“This opportunity to go and study
and pursue my dream of being an
international athletics star, especially
for someone so young, was given to me
by those who truly believed in me, who
saw my potential: My mother (Lou-Ann
Chance), my coach and my sponsor,”
he added.
“And I will forever feel both humble
and grateful to them, and I will go from
strength to strength with self-belief,
determination and hard work, and I will
make them proud,” Chance continued.
“I will make my school proud and my
entire country proud.”
The young athlete said his next step
is to follow in the footsteps of his compatriot
Consolo Adams, a former KCC
student, who was awarded a four-year
basketball scholarship by the University
in Washington, and Kirby, who received
to generate a new and expanded partnership
in the upcoming months that
will see more collaboration and participation
of players and administrators
in cricket, at CWI and Cricket
Canada events.
CWI President Rickey Skerritt, in
welcoming Saini said Cricket Canada
and Cricket West Indies have shared a
productive and brotherly relationship
with the ICC Americas system for
many years adding that this relationship
can only get stronger.
at the end.
Bangladesh was cruising to victory
at 109 for two in the 12th over but
lost three quick wickets for 34 runs
in the space of 35 balls, to leave the
result open.
However, Mosaddek slammed a
20-ball 50 — the fastest by a Bangladeshi
in ODIs — in a 70-run, unbroken
wicket stand with Mahmudullah
(19) not out to snuff out any chance
of a West Indies victory.
The defeat to Bangladesh was the
third straight in the tournament for
West Indies and seventh in nine meetings
over the past year.
Man-of-the-Series Shai Hope had
earlier top-scored with 74, while Sunil
Ambris struck 69 as West Indies finished
on 152 for 1 after rain resulted
in a five-hour break during the
innings.
When play resumed, following a
series of interruptions, West Indies
found themselves with just 23 balls
in the innings and managed only
another 21 runs leaving Bangladesh
to score 210 in 24 overs.
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BANGLADESH WINS TRI-NATION CUP
Cricket ties
By Azad Ali
Cricket West Indies (CWI) is facing
serious financial problems, which have
forced new President, Ricky Skerritt to
stop all “nonessential activities.”
The governing body owes regional
boards and players money and has laid
down a mandate to cut expenditures
on everything apart from “cricket
essential activities” with the perception
of excessive becoming an issue
once more.
Skerritt, who defeated Dave Cameron
in the March 2019 election,
revealed that due to lack of resources
CWI has not been able to honor all of
its financial obligations.
He said, however, that the organization
was moving swiftly to address the
problem.
“It’s worse than you think. All I can
say is that we have a significant shortfall
in working capital and that is why
we have been not up to date with most
of our obligations to our creditors,”
he said.
The new president said the board
has begun to undertake a financial
review and in the meantime “we are
continuing to raise funds where the
funds can be raised and we think in
the next couple months or so, we
should be in a much better position
than we are now.”
‘There are some grassroots programs
that have either slowed down or
just come to a halt because we haven’t
been able to pay various vendors and
suppliers. That has been the most
troubling thing from me right now,” he said.
President of Cricket West Indies,
Ricky Skerritt.