Bush Lot United Sports Club receives massive BCB investment

– 4th club to collect bowling machine

The ongoing cricket development programme of the proactive Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) continued on Sunday when BCB President Hilbert Foster, accompanied by Region Five Vice Chairman Rion Peters, visited the Bush Lot United Sports Club to hand over a bowling machine to the club.
The machine was obtained with sponsorship from VC Peters and would be a major boost to youth players in the West Berbice area.
Under the presidency of Foster, the Board has launched an aggressive cricket development project to unearth new cricketing talent and also to assist clubs in fulfilling their mandates to youths. The BCB would also this week hand over a batting cage to the club whose membership includes promising Berbice Youth Players Tulsiram Ramcharran and Justin Doobay.
Foster took the opportunity to donate a complete wicketkeeping set to the club. The BCB President congratulated the management of the club on the outstanding work they were doing and stated that his administration was determined to assist as much as possible. The BCB investment to the club which was worth over $600,000 was part of that commitment to make a positive impact at the youth level.

Foster expressed thanks to Peters for his sponsorship and hailed his support for cricket in the area. Earlier in the year, the popular politician had made a contribution to the BCB Tape-ball gears project for schools in the West Berbice area.
Twelve schools including Rosignol, Bush Lot, Latchmansingh and Fort Wellington received bats and tape balls .Latchmansingh Primary went on to emerge as champions of the BCB inter-primary tape-ball competition. Foster urged the club to take proper care of the items and to use them for the intended purpose. He cautioned the Bush Lot executives that they must invest heavily in youths if they wanted the club to survive in the future and urged them to allow more youths to play at the Second-Division level.
Over the years, the BCB has assisted clubs in Berbice with pitch covers, cricket gear, water pitchers, groundsmen rain coats, bicycles, catching cribs, grass cutters, coaching equipment, educational materials, coaching manual, cricket balls, youth information booklets among others in a comprehensive development programme. The BCB since 2018 has also hosted cricket at all levels for juniors and seniors while a total of 20 cricket coaches are employed with the support of the Local Government Ministry. Foster committed himself to assisting more in the future and called on the club to remain focused.
Vice Chairman Peters stated that he was very pleased to be associated with the BCB as he was very impressed with the development of the game in the county. He pledged his continued assistance as he was interested in the development of youths, and joined Foster in encouraging the club in playing youths as an investment in the future.
Bush Lot United Club President Rajiv Kishun expressed thanks to the Cricket Board and Peters for the donation of the bowling machine. He also expressed his delight in the development of the game in Berbice. The wicketkeeping gear were donated by former national player Sheik Mohamed while the batting cage’s sponsor was contractor Peter Lewis.