Jamaicans in Sport

Jamaicans in sport

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Reggae Boyz go down to Aussies

Jamaica suffered a 5-0 defeat at the hands of the Australian football team in an international friendly in London on Sunday. The Jamaican team was thoroughly outclassed in every aspect of play by an Australian squad preparing for a playoff to make it to the World Cup finals in Germany next year.

Jamaica out of KFC Cup

Despite two good wins in three days, Jamaica is out of the KFC Cup. The Jamaican team beat Trinidad and Tobago in a rain-reduced match on Friday, reaching their target of 102 with 6.1 overs of their allotted 20 remaining. The team then moved on to take a six wicket victory over Barbados on Sunday. However, the team did not make it through to the final four. They suffered a major defeat at the start of the tournament when they lost by nine wickets to the Leeward Islands last Monday. The team then suffered a narrow loss as the Windward Islands reached their required target with only 17 balls remaining in the game, and an even closer loss as they went down by seven runs to Guyana.

Jamaica well represented in Windies squad

Jamaicans make up one third of the Windies touring 15 for the Australia tour later this year. The Jamaican members of the squad are Chris Gayle, Wavell Hinds, Marlon Samuels, Jermaine Lawson, and Daren Powell. For Gayle, Hinds, and Samuels, it marks a return to the squad after they refused to tour to Sri Lanka as part of a contract dispute with the WICB.

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