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The hundreds of Jamaicans who descended on Shelly Bay for a picnic had double cause for celebration - 40 years of independence from Britain and improbable success for their cricket team who sealed a place in the Commercial League's knockout final at ...
DATE: Sep 25, 2002
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West Indian Association, who came agonisingly close to winning the league title, are confident of seeing off their Caribbean rivals Jamaican Association this weekend to set up a showdown with champions Leg Trappers in the Commercial Cricket League's ...
DATE: Sep 18, 2002
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end 30 years of independence by joining the Bermuda Cricket Board of Control.
At last week's annual meeting, representatives of the nine clubs which will compete in the Commercial League this season, starting this weekend, gave the executive committe...
DATE: May 02, 2000
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comprehend the reaction of two of the organisations involved.
Bermuda Football Association leapt to the defence of a drugs-testing policy which has reportedly snared several of its senior national team players -- either because they failed the test o...
DATE: Sep 24, 1999
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Veteran fly-half Alan Oliver returns to international rugby next week as Bermuda look to regain the Caribbean Championship title they won two years ago.
Police player Oliver, out with a serious knee injury for a lengthy period, joins five new faces i...
DATE: Oct 09, 1998
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Commercial Cricket League title on the last weekend.
But their triumph came only after securing a tense, three-wicket victory over Forties in a low-scoring match at National Sports Club that produced just 159 runs in 79.4 overs.
Runners-up Jamaican A...
DATE: Sep 10, 1998
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Bermuda 138, India 143-4 Not for the first time the state of the St. David's wicket came in for criticism as India's touring Test team wrapped up their short two-match visit with a second easy victory, beating Bermuda's national team by six wickets ...
DATE: May 12, 1997
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Fifteen of the 16 Indian Test players who played in the West Indies will arrive in Bermuda today for a short two-match tour.
The only exception, manager D.V. Subba Rao disclosed yesterday from New York, is fast bowler Venkatesh Prasad who has been gi...
DATE: May 07, 1997
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Pembroke United, who failed to win a game and finished bottom of Commercial Cricket's league programme, pulled off a major upset when they thrashed Safeguard Security by nine wickets in the first round of the Knockout competition on Sunday.
Pembroke ...
DATE: Aug 30, 1995
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Cricket and political rhetoric went hand in hand at Bermuda's biggest sporting holiday which attracted smaller crowds than in past years.
And while all eyes were on the cricket, most minds were not far from the Independence referendum less than two w...
DATE: Aug 05, 1995
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