Indiacontinues to travel the world, with their "one off" only Twenty 20International match this afternoon in the West Indies. They will meet the West Indies squad at thecricket ground in Kingston, Jamaica for what promises to be an excitingmatch. Last year, the last time the twomet under these conditions, they met in Florida, for a barnburner game whichended with a one point difference, 245-244. T20I is the West Indies best format. Over their last seven matches, which appears to be the lifetime of theirhead to head competition in this format, the West Indies leads India 4-2. Thegame begins in the morning, West Indies time, so that it will be broadcast inprime time in India. The West Indiespresents a fresh slate for today's match, with only four players returning fromlast year. India returns with theirwhole team for today's match, hopefully the jet lag is not too much for them. Virat Kohli, well known to readers of thisspace, is slated to serve at India team captain. Today's meeing should prove to be an awesome competition.
Tour de France: Frenchrider Lilian Calmejane defeats cramp to win Stage 8. Stage 9 today. Lilian Calmejane fought off a bout ofcramp to claim a dramatic solo win in the eighth stage of the Tour de France onSaturday, as the overall favorites stayed quiet on the eve of a punishing dayin the Jura mountains. The 24-year-oldFrenchman, in only his second year as a professional, dropped his breakawaycompanions in the last climb of the day and despite cramping up in the closingstages, held off Dutchman Robert Gesink for a second Grand Tour stage win. Another Frenchman, Guillaume Martin, tookthird place. Britain's ChrisFroome, the race leader, whose bike went off the road in a descent on Saturday,predicts a greater challenge today for the cyclists, "I expect the Tour deFrance GC to be blown wide open on stage 9" he said. The stage will be a punishing foray throughthe Jura mountains with three lung-busting climbs before a dangerous descent toChambery. Today's Tour stage promises great visuals and exciting cycling. Inthe United States, Soccer action continues today, in the inaugural weekend ofthe 2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup. This is the 14th edition of the CONCACAF Gold Cup,the biennial international men's football championship of the North, CentralAmerican and Caribbean region. Thetournament is being played between now and July 26th, and is hosted this yearby the United States of America. 12teams are competing in this year's competition. Each tourney, three berths are given to North American, and four each to Central America and the Caribbean,with the remaining spot given to a playoff between qualifying teams from CentralAmerica and the Caribbean. Thisyear, not surprisingly, North America's three spots were given to Mexico,defending champions, and to the US andCanada. Honduras, Panama, El Salvadorand Costa Rica take Central America's spots, with Nicaragua, winners of theplayoff, joining them. Winners of the Caribbean'sberths were Curacao, Jamaica, French Guyana and Martinique (these last two arenot FIFA members). Curacao is the formerNetherlands Antilles. Today's action takes place at the QualcommStadium in San Diego, first to meet in the double header will be Curacao vs.Jamaica, and then Mexico vs. El Salvador. -- Posted By Rex to SR at 7/09/2017 05:06:00 AM -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "omnisport" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/omnisport. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
