Guyana Lottery Co batting for Kares T10 Tapeball Blast

Scheduled to bowl off on Saturday, June 28, the Kares One Guyana T10 Tapeball Blast is aiming to get bigger and better in its third season.
In order to do so, the event’s organisers have welcomed another major sponsor, the Guyana Lottery Company.
During a simple ceremony at the company’s Lamaha Street, Georgetown headquarters on Tuesday morning, General Manager Kalima Ali divulged why the entity was so eager to support the Tapeball tournament.
Ali shared, “The Guyana Lottery Company Limited is proud to be a diamond sponsor for the One Guyana T10 Tapeball Blast cricket competition.”

“And so, we believe in the unity and passion that cricket brings across Guyana and we’re particularly happy to be associated with this competition, because it’s being played across Guyana and the lottery is spread across all the regions, all the counties of Guyana. We think that this is a very good way of connecting with our players; we do believe in supporting and nurturing talent at a community level and we see, based on the previous years of this competition, we see the pride that it brings to communities and the engagement that it encourages, so we want to be associated with that.”
While the tournament kicks off with the Berbice zone on June 28 and June 29, the East Bank and West Demerara zone will take centre stage on July 5-July 6, Georgetown and East Coast Demerara July 19-July 20 and Essequibo from July 26-July 27; the tournament’s grand finale is billed for August 3.
One of the tournament’s Directors, John Ramsingh revealed the nature of the Lottery Company’s sponsorship.
“It’s good to be aligning ourselves with this big name like you mentioned, the Guyana Lottery Company. What the Lottery Company is doing this year is different to our tournament of the past three seasons, is that they’ll be branding the commentators and broadcast team who will be known perhaps as the Guyana Lottery Company broadcast team. That’s something that’s stepping the game up as well, the Lottery Company,” Ramsingh disclosed.
Noting that spots in the tournament are going fast, Ramsingh went on to urge interested teams to sign up.
The One Guyana T10 Blast Director expressed, “From the inception, before registration officially started, we had lots of interest being shown and when registration officially started, most of those slots went already. Most of the zones, they have two, maybe three the most, slots still available. So, it’s not totally closed, it’s just that there’s a big demand for those slots and it means that the interest is high and we’d like to encourage teams who are interested in the tournament to go a step further by formally registering for this tournament, because not a lot of space available.”
The tournament’s organisers are anticipating reaching some 80 competing teams. The registration fee is $30,000.
The winning team in each zone will pocket $300,000 and a spot in the national finals while the tournament’s overall winners will cart off $1.7 million. The runners-up will have to settle for $700,000 while the losing semi-finalists will receive $300,000 each.