Comments on: Cricket: India hearts Guyana

By: niharika

niharika — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:45:23 +0000

omg i dont get this stuff…….. R U guys saying dat india and guyana versed each other in sum kinda cricket game….. and sumthin”’ happenneddddd………….LOL….what up ma peeps……….lol

By: Jgmptgj

Jgmptgj — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:00:06 +0000

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By: Preston

Preston — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 22:50:17 +0000

It would be nice if more people would visit Guyana. With a population of only 750,000, there are now more Guyanese outside of Guyana than in it. But the country's infrastructure is poor, crime is high (especially in Georgetown), and it's not really a bargain to travel there. Maybe the new stadium will spark further development.

By: Samir

Samir — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 03:27:46 +0000

10,720 spectators? Sounds like a minor league baseball stadium.

Most staidims outside of the subcontinet and australia have capacities of 15000 to 20K max. Its Guyana at the end of the day they are not going to have a 90K MCG or 110K eden gardens

By: Whose God is it anyways?

Whose God is it anyways? — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:13:23 +0000

"There's not much reason for a tourist to go to Guyana. Let's hope cricket opens some doors."

uh oh. i hope no guyanese read that, lest you get the bbc's martin gough treatment here and here.

the funny thing about the new stadium in grenada is that during its formal opening ceremony, the grenadians mistakenly played the anthem of taiwan, who preceded china in the caribbean in buying the loyalty (and u.n vote on taiwan-china disputes) of local governments. would have loved to have seen the chinese official's face.

By: Safraz

Safraz — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 22:12:00 +0000

Guyana’s close relations with India go way back to the birth of Guyana itself when Dr. Cheddi Jagan, the elected Prime Minister of British Guiana, deposed by a British and CIA conspiracy, visited Prime Minister Nehru in India and received his support. Indeed, Jagan would later become close friends with Indira Gandhi, and described her as close to his heart as a sister.

Jagan himself was inspired by Mahatma Gandhi, and in his is fight for democracy in Guyana, was guided by Gandhi’s principles of non-violent change.

More about all this can be found here: http://www.guyana.org/govt/leaders_india1953.html

By: Seahawks fan

Seahawks fan — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 22:09:07 +0000

10,720 spectators? Sounds like a minor league baseball stadium.

By: Safraz

Safraz — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 22:04:31 +0000

The new Providence Stadium, I hear, is much better at dealing with the water than is Bourda (the Fenway park of West Indies cricket, if you will). Providence Stadium drains away 2 inches of rainfall every 30 minutes.

Guyana’s beauty lies, not in coastal Georgetown and its Dutch colonial architecure mixed with modern eye sore buildings, but in it’s interior. Amazing waterfalls are scattered throughout a lush untouched rainforest, all topped by the amazing Kaieteur Falls – if you haven’t seen it in person, you are missing a truly spiritual experience – one like no other.

By: Preston

Preston — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 21:50:06 +0000

Thanks for the clarification–one triple and one quadruple. His quadruple was Easter weekend in 2004. I watched it on TV at the Hotel Tower in Georgetown (not luxury), with Carib beer brought from room service, while I waited for the rain to let up.

By: Taj

Taj — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 21:46:17 +0000

Cricket nerd alert Brian Lara did not get two quadruple centuries in Antigua. He got 375 there in 1994 to break Sir Garry Sobers' highest-innings score; in 2004 he reached 400 to reclaim the record from Matthew Hayden. Nerdiness over

Aside from that, Preston, your clear-eyed picture of Guyana actually made me want to see it even more.