GCB donates Scotiabank Kiddy Cricket Kits to RHTSYC
… GCB Officials Meet Club President on Fruitful Invitational Visit
The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) continues its drive to commit to cricket clubs around the country. This time it
GCB Secretary Anand Sanasie hands over cricket kits to CEO of RHTYSC Hilbert Foster
donates four Scotiabank kiddy cricket kits to Rose Hall Town Sports and youth Club in Berbice.
A contingent comprising GCB’s Secretary Anand Sanasie, Assistant Administrator Melinda Bishundyal-Chaitram and Territorial Development Officer (TDO), Colin Stuart, recently met with Hilbert Foster, the Secretary and CEO for Rose Hall Town Sports and Youth Club and some club officials. The meeting stemmed from an invitational visit extended to the GCB by the Hilbert Foster.
The visit which envisaged high levels of expectations was synonymous with its prospects, as a number of mutual accepted views and positions were shared between the two entities – the GCB and Rose Hall Town Sports and Youth Club.
According to a press release from the GCB, the parties discussed a variety of cricket related matters surrounding club development and players’ empowerment, ranging from structured coaching education programmes that are similar in nature to first division clubs across the country, to club facility development with emphasis on pitch, ground, nets and facility enhancement and very importantly, the players’ technical, physical fitness, match preparation and readiness – the players’ mental toughness or mental application capacities, the value of nutrition and lifestyle and the importance of personal development programmes for club players.
The release further stated that the GCB found the meeting fruitful, in that both parties were able share concepts and ideas on the conduct of cricket development initiatives and programmes, and found the exercise to be mutual beneficial to both parties involved.
The kits donated to the Rose Hall Town and Sports and Club is to assist in the development and promotion of its cricket nursery. Both Sanasie and Foster expressed a willingness to further co-operate and facilitate cricket development initiatives in the Berbice area.
The Guyana Cricket Board recently donated brush cutters to all first division clubs in Berbice. Last year the GCB also donated practice nets and $100,000 to these first division clubs.
