Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica reacts after competing in the women’s 100 meters race at the Athletissima
IAAF Diamond League international athletics meeting at the Stade Olympique de la Pontaise in
Lausanne, Switzerland, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021. Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP/File
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By Nelson A. King
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce continued
her fine late-season form with
a comfortable 10.81-second 100m
victory at the Kamila Skolimowska
Memorial in Silesia, Poland, on Sunday
at a World Athletics Continental
Tour Gold meeting, according to
Worldathletics.com.
It was a Polish all-comers’ record,
breaking the 10.93 mark set by Ewa
Kasprzyk in 1986.
“I took some time after Lausanne
to get back into things, and I’m looking
forward to the next one because
I definitely think, technically, I was
very good in that race,” said Fraser
Pryce, who clocked 10.60 in the
Swiss Diamond League meeting 10
days ago.
“I was glad I was able to get the
break,” she added. “I needed it to
regroup and come again. I’m back
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West Indies’ Jason Holder. Action
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Leading
allrounder
By Azad Ali
Former West Indies Test captain,
Jason Holder remains as the highestranked
Caribbean bowler and world’s
leading allrounder.
Holder and teenaged fast bowler,
Jayden Seales were the only players
making significant strides in the
most recent International Cricket
Council (ICC) Test player rankings
recently.
Holder remained unmoved at
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Russell hits
CPL record
By Azad Ali
West Indies hard hitting Twenty20
batsman, Andre Russell blasted a Caribbean
Premier League (CPL) record
14-ball half century, as the Jamaica
Tallawahs routed the St. Lucia Kings to
win by 120 runs — the biggest margin
of victory in CPL history — at Warner
Park in St. Kitts and Nevis in the third
match of the tournament which started
on Aug. 26.
ESPNcricinfo described it as mayhem
when Russell came to the wicket in the
18th over with Obed Mc Coy bowling —
the Kings fast bowler had grabbed all
three of his wickets in that over.
What ensued was carnage. Russell
in a devastating form, pummeled the
Kings bowling to help the Tallawahs
post a mammoth 235 for five in their
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RECORD
BREAKER
Fraser-Pryce smashes Polish all-comers’ record
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