BCB/Cricket Kindness Gear Project: BCB donates cricket gear to clubs

…Clayton Lambert donates nine boxes of cricket balls

The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) continues to assist cricket clubs and schools across Berbice with cricket gear under its Cricket Kindness/Bat for a Chance project. The gear forms part of

a massive donation from Cricket Kindness, headed by United Kingdom-based Tamara J. Lowe, and Will Gafney of Bat for a Chance, also based in the UK.
The Port Mourant Secondary School (PMSS), along with the Tucber Park, Edinburgh and Rainbow Generation cricket clubs, has received a bag of cricket gear that included bats, batting pads, batting gloves, helmets, thigh pads and forearm guards.
BCB President Hilbert Foster has indicated that donation of the gear represents the final set of gear to be shared out under the project that involves the two overseas NGOs. Foster disclosed that, to date, the BCB has donated gear, uniforms and caps to over 100 youth players, along with those of dozens of secondary and primary schools and cricket clubs. Among the schools and clubs to have benefited under the massive project are Line Path Secondary, Lower Corentyne Secondary, Vryman’s Erven Secondary, Fort Wellington Secondary, #72 Primary, Crabwood Creek Primary, Rose Hall Town Primary, All Saints Primary, Cumberland Primary, Rosignol Primary, #8 Primary, Rose Hall Canje CC, Mt. Sinai CC, Cotton Tree CC, Radha Krishna Foundation, and Skeldon CC. The BCB President has urged the different clubs and schools to take care of the gear.

Special mention has been made of the Port Mourant Secondary School which, over the years, has produced several outstanding players, like Devindra Bishoo, Gudakesh Motie, Eon Hooper, Rampertab Ramnauth, Hemnarine Chattergoon, and Matthew Pottaya. This school, which enjoys the services of two level one coaches, also has a very active cricket programme for its female students.
Foster has also expressed gratitude to Tamara J. Lowe, Will Gafney, Minister Charles Ramson, Carl Griffith of Laparkan, and Roland Butcher for their support in making the donation possible.
Meanwhile, former West Indies and national opening batsman Clayton Lambert has donated nine boxes of cricket balls to the BCB for distribution to clubs with junior sections. The balls, worth over $100,000, will shortly be distributed to clubs as the BCB continues to reach out to its members.
Lambert, a Berbice captain in 2021, has donated over $1.5 million worth of cricket gear to the BCB under the Clayton Lambert Cricket Development Fund.