The fourth edition of the Georgetown Softball Cricket League’s Republic Cup takes place tomorrow at the Everest Cricket Club with eight teams battling in two categories.
In the All-Star Category, Regal, Success XI, Speed Boat and Farm XI will battle for honours while in the Masters Category Regal Masters, Success Masters, Mike’s Wellman and Ariel Masters will go at each other.
The teams were in action last weekend in the KPL Fundraiser and will no doubt be going in to today’s event well prepared. The most prepared of the lot will be Regal
Everest Cricket Club, known as the “Mecca” of softball cricket will host Republic Cup 4
Masters and All-Stars who won their respective categories last week. The masters were led beautifully by Fazleem Mohamed, David and Raymond Harper, Eric Thomas, Rudolph Baker, Mahendra Arjune and Mahendra Hardyal and will be looking for consistency if they are to win the Republic Cup. They must watch out for Mike’s Wellman who depend heavily on Wayne Jones, Mike Singh, Latchman Kallicharran, Motilall Chumandatt and Greg De Franca for their recent improvement. Success and Ariel Masters are seasoned teams and will be looking to create upsets.
In the Open category, Regal All Stars will be the team to beat. They have been red hot on the local scene and with the likes of Kelvin Orford, Vishnu Tannichandra, Wazeer Hussain, Sarfraz Esau and Fazal Rafeek in the green and yellow they have an excellent chance of taking the top honours again. Speed Boat must not be underestimated and will be looking for a good start from Lennox “Assassin” Mark and Shazim Hussain. The Success and Farm teams have been very competitive and on their day will beat all opponents.
A full day of excitement is anticipated when the action starts at 09:00h with the semifinals. The tournament was further boosted when Guyana’s bigger and better mobile network, Digicel and Stag Beer joined the list of faithful supporters for the one day event. The others being Trophy Stall in the City Mall and Bourda Market, Top Brandz Distributors, Elegance Jewelry and Pawn Shop, Wild Catch Fish Depot at Meadow Bank and Mon Repos Public Road, Crown Mining Supplies, Star Party Rentals and Ink Plus.
