— despite impact of pandemic
Cricket Guyana Inc has honoured its commitment to contract promising players during the latter part of the 2020/2021 cricket season. 
This commitment has been honoured despite speculation from some sections of the cricket sphere in Guyana that the academy players may have to be kept in the doldrums for the complete 2020/2021 season.
Such speculations have since been dispelled with the CGI administration continuing to uphold its 3-tier contract structure, which awards the respective players with contracts ranked A, B and C.
This season, four players have been awarded rank ‘A’ academy contracts, another four have been awarded rank ‘B’ contracts, while six have been awarded rank ‘C’ contracts. This brings to 14 the number of players contracted, which indicates that an additional two players from previous seasons have been contracted.
Noticeable among the rank ‘C’ contracted players are talented youths Mavendra Dindyal, Matthew Nandu, Isai Throne and Rampertab Ramnauth, all of whom are currently under the watchful eyes and nurturing system of CWI as specific player development initiatives take root with the upcoming ICC U19 World Cup, which is planned to be held in the West Indies in 2022.
Rank ‘C’ contracts have also been awarded to two players whom many persons have their eyes on for future success, fast bowler Qumar Torrington and opening batsman Kevlon Anderson.
The four rank ‘B’ contracted players include two with first class exposure: Bhaskar Yadram and Ronaldo Ali-Mohamed. Richie Looknauth has been rewarded for his continued commitment, as he remains an academy-contracted player, while all-rounder Quinten Sampson has been given his first opportunity to be involved with the academy structure, and is expected to stimulate an increased level of competition among players.
Leading the rank ‘A’ contracted list is the experienced Assad Fudadin. He is joined by the promising wicketkeeper/batsman Kemol Savory, outstanding left arm spinner at the domestic level Antony Adams, and the talented right-arm leg- spinner Steven Sankar.
Both the current academy contracted players and the available CWI/CGI contracted players are required to report to Academy coach Julian Moore at the LBI ground by 09:00 hours on Monday, 8 February 2021, unless otherwise engaged in CGI national duties.
