Latest update April 16th, 2026 12:40 AM
Guyanese gets to throw at US$2M darts prize
Twenty-three year-old Guyanese Sudesh Fitzgerald now has less than a month to prepare for a life-defining experience.
By winning the Carib Beer Caribbean & South American Darts Masters at the Almond Bay Conference Centre, Hastings, Christ Church, Barbados on Saturday night, Fitzgerald earned himself a place at the PDC World Championships in London where he will play against the world’s top professionals for the combined prize money of US$2.8 million.
That experience could have fallen easily to the in-form Barbadian Mark Cummins, but his form deserted him in a tense final.
Fitzgerald first defeated his mentor Norman Madhoo by four legs to three in an error-strewn semi-final. He also earlier had a battle on his hands in the quarter-final against Hank Ebanks from the Cayman Islands. They matched each other dart for dart, leg for leg, until Fitzgerald took the seventh and deciding leg.
The other half of the draw produced some spectacular darts. The pick of these matches featured Trinidad and Tobago’s Vivekanand Dyal and St Lucia’s Albert Henry.
In the third leg Dyal hit a maximum and Henry immediately followed suit. It left Dyal with a massive score of 132 to finish but, totally in the groove, Dyal hit triple 19, outer bull and then bullseye.
Dyal eventually took the match by four legs to three and this meant a semi-final clash with the impressive Cummins. Cummins took the early initiative and had leads of 2-0 and 3–1 but the Trinidadian stepped up his scoring rate and levelled at 3-3.
The momentum was with Dyal and in the decider scores of 140 and 135 gave him the chance of victory but he could not hit those elusive winning doubles and Cummins, at the first opportunity, produce a three dart check out of 80 to take the tie.
In the final Cummins won the first leg but then failed to convert his chances in both the second and third legs. For the first time Cummins began to show traces of self-doubt and Fitzgerald, retaining his focus, was always in front for the next two legs to land the biggest prize in Caribbean and South American darts. (Barbados Nation)
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