Home Sports BCB/RHTYSC/Busta Champion of Champions 40-Overs Tournament bowls off on Sunday ...
The Berbice Cricket Season continues to expand as 2018 comes to an end. The BCB has thus far coompleted twenty two cricket tournaments in the form of the New Building Society 40-Overs, 2019 Under-15, Mogu Mogu Region 5, Upper Corentyne Under-19, Ivan Madray 100 Balls are currently in process. Today the board will start its 28th Cricket Tournament for the year, with the launching of the BCB/RHTYSC Champion of Champions 40-Overs Tournament.
The fifteen Edition of the Tournament would be contested by eight teams. The top eight teams were selected based on their performances in 2018 and they are West Berbice Cricket Association, Blairmont Com Centre Cricket Club, Tucber Park Cricket Club, Rose Hall Canje Cricket Clun, Young Warriors Cricket Club, Rose Hall Town Gizmos & Gadgets Cricket Team, Albion Community Centre Cricket Club and Port Mourant Cricket Club. The Guyana Beverage Company is sponsoring the tournament under its Busta brand and has been doing so since 2004. Guyana’s leading youth and sports organisation, the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, MS has organised the tournament over the years and this year has joined forces with the Berbice Cricket Board to host the prestigious tournament.
Albion Community Centre will be spearheaded by Jonathan Foo, Sharaz Ramcharran, Kandasammy Surujnarine and Adrian Sukhwa while West Berbice will heavily depend heavily on Arthley Bailey, Keith Fraser, Sherwin Mc Pherson and Steffan Adams. Rose Hall Town Gizmos & Gadgets challenge will be led by skipper Shawn Pereira, Kevin Sinclair, Eon Hooper, Sylus Tyndall, Junior Sinclair and Keith Simpson against Rose Hall Canje Team which is spearheaded by Ameer Rahaman, Mark Sampson, Martin Singh, Sasenarine Sukhu and Isaiah Thorne.
On paper the Young Warriors Cricket Club and Port Mourant Cricket Club match will be a thriller with Young Warriors Cricket Club having players like Alex Algoo, Vishal Mohabir, Linden Austin, Trevlon Stanislaus, Suresh Dhanai and Seon Hetmyer, older brother of Shimron Hetmyer. Port Mourant Cricket Club challenge against Young Warriors will be led by Joshua Ramsammy, Loyydel Lewis, Samuel Kistasammy, Dimitri Cameron and Kellon Carmichael. The final match should also produce good cricket with Garfield Benjamin, Nial Smith, Leon Swammy, Mark Barker, Clifton Lindie and Kewsi Mickle appearing for Tucber Park against Blairmont which will feature Javed Karim, Kevin Jawahir, Seon Glasgow, Nigel Deodat and Fawaz Gafoor. All of the matches are scheduled to commence at 09:35 hours sharp.
The Berbice Cricket Board and Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, MS would like to express profound gratitude to the Management and Staff of the Guyana Beverage Company for their continued support of Berbice Cricket. Special mention must be made of long serving General Manager Robert Selman.
The opening round of matches
Sunday 9th December would see:
Albion Cricket Club vs
West Berbice Cricket Club @ Albion
Young Warriors Cricket Club vs
Port Mourant Cicket Club @ Port Mourant
Tucber Park Cricket Club vs
Blairmont Community Centre @ Cumberland
Rose Hall Town Gizmos & Gadgets vs
Upper Corentyne Cricket Club @ Area ‘H’ Ground
