13th annual Naeem Nasir Memorial Tournament set for Sunday

The Area H Ground in the small township of Rose Hall Town will come alive in a blaze of glory on Sunday when the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club hosts the 13th edition of the Naeem Nasir Memorial Tournament.
The one-day tournament will be sponsored by the popular bakery, Bakewell, in memory of Naeem Nasir, the founder of the company.
Cricket Manager of the RHTYSC, Robby Kissoonlall, disclosed that seven teams will compete in the tournament, which bowls off at 09:00h sharp. The teams are Rose Hall Town Bakewell, Skeldon, Achievers, Rose Hall Tigers, Guymine, Belvedere United, and Tain Block Four.
Matches in the first round will be played as eight overs per side, while the semifinals and the grand final will be played as ten overs each. The winning team will pocket one hundred thousand dollars, and the runner-up will take home fifty thousand dollars, plus attractive trophies.

The organisers revealed that the event will be a family affair, featuring a non-alcoholic bar, popular music by the True Heart Family set, and live commentary. Teams will be allowed a total of three first-division players, provided they are not debarred by the Berbice Cricket Board for the current cricket season. Players under the age of twenty-one will not be considered first-division players.
The RHTYSC, with sponsorship from Bakewell, has organised the tournament since Nasir’s passing in 2012. Bakewell and the cricket club have enjoyed a productive relationship since 2000, when the bakery became the official sponsor of the club’s under-seventeen and second-division teams.
This partnership has resulted in over a dozen championship victories, and the teams have produced more than 60 players for Berbice, Guyana, and the West Indies combined.
These include players such as Esuan Crandon, Assad Fudadin, Royston Crandon, Kelvon Anderson, Kevin Sinclair, Junior Sinclair, Clinton Pestano, Jonathan Rampersaud, Shemaine Campbelle, and Erva Giddings.
Meanwhile, Rose Hall Town Bakewell has announced its team for the tournament, which includes captain Surendra Kissoonlall and vice-captain Jonathan Rampersaud, along with Romesh Bharrat, Matthew Pottaya, Tameshwar Deochand, Chanderpaul Govindan, Leon Reddi, Javed Karim, Keith Simpson, Junior Babb, Jeremy Sandia, Rafell Mckenzie, Ramzan Koobir, Munesh Rampersaud, and Nicholas Cameron.