Fudadin, Crandon, Williams named in RHTY&SC all time XI

RHTY&SC’s 30th Anniversary Celebration: 1990-2020

— Campbelle leads all time female team

Management of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC), MS, has unveiled the club’s “all-time cricket team” as its 30th anniversary celebration continues. The “all-time cricket team” selectees represent the best cricketers the club has ever produced.

Founded in September, 1990 by three-time Commonwealth Youth Service awardee the St. Francis Community Developers, the RHTY&SC is the only youth and sports club in the history of Guyana to receive a national award.
This idea of selecting an “all-time team” first surfaced in the club’s 20th anniversary observances in 2010, and would be revisited in 2025, for the club’s 35th anniversary.

Selectees in the 2020 all-time team named in order of batting preference are:
1.Renwick Batson
2.James Fraser
3.Assad Fudadin
4.Royston Crandon
5.Neil Williams
6.Andre Percival
7.Khemraj Mahadeo
8.Delbert Hicks
9.Eon Hooper
10.Esuan Crandon
11.Shawn Pereira.

Hooper and Pereira have replaced Ravi Narine and Shawn Grant who were in the last selected all time eleven. National Coach and former Guyana all-rounder Esuan Crandon has been selected to “captain” this team.

Club Secretary/CEO Hilbert Foster has said a five-member committee selected the team based on each individual’s performance on the cricket field, complemented by their personal discipline, team spirit, loyalty to the club, and role model status. He disclosed that numerous RHTY&SC members were considered, with Clinton Pestano, Kevlon Anderson, Junior Sinclair, Keith Simpson, Kevin Sinclair, Jason Sinclair, Ravi Narine, Shawn Grant, Abdel Fudadin, Rajiv Ivan and Michael Trim being “unlucky” not to be selected.
Foster is confident that Clinton Pestano, Kevlon Anderson, Junior Sinclair, Kevin Sinclair and Keith Simpson would be included in 2025 when the 35th anniversary all-time team is selected.

The batting order is “very strong on paper”, with Batson, Fraser, Fudadin, Crandon, Williams, Percival, Mahadeo and Hicks all having scored in excess of 6,000 runs in their RHTY&SC careers. They have a combined 38 centuries, while Hooper, Crandon and Pereira are useful all-rounders.
Crandon is slated to star with the new ball and with either Williams, Fudadin or Batson, while Delbert Hicks would keep wicket. Spinners on the team would be drawn from Eon Hooper, Royston Crandon, Andre Percival, Khemraj Mahadeo and leg spinner Shawn Pereira.
Foster declared that the only weak spot is the lack of a left-arm spinner. All the players have played for Berbice at the junior and senior levels while Fraser is the only one not to play for Guyana at any level. Fudadin (Tests), Royston Crandon (ODI), and Esuan Crandon (Sixes) have also played for the West Indies.
Meanwhile, the club has also disclosed that West Indies batting star Shemaine Campbelle has been named skipper of the club’s “all- time female eleven”. That team, in batting order, is: Meliane Henry, Marian Samaroo, Shabika Gajnabi, Shemaine Campbelle, Sheneta Grimmond, Sherika Campbelle, Jackie Singh, Nikita Toney, Dian Prahalad, Plaffina Millington and Erva Giddings. Gajnabi would serve as the vice-captain, while Campbelle would keep wicket and Henry would be the standby. Giddings and Sherika Campbelle would share the new ball, with Gajnabi as back up.

The spin bowlers would be: off-spinners Grimmond, Millington, Singh, left arm spinners Toney and Prahalad.
The RHTY&SC is the only cricket club in Guyana to have a female team, and every member of the team has represented Guyana at either the junior or senior level, apart from Sherika Campbelle, who is a senior Berbice player. Shemaine Campbelle, Giddings, Gajnabi and Grimmond are all senior West Indies players.
The RHTYSC would revisit the all-time eleven team in 2025.