Hand-in-Hand set to brand Guyana Regional U-19 Team
It has been revealed that the insurance giants Hand-in-Hand will be one of the official partners for the Guyana team that will participate in the upcoming Regional U-19 tournament in 2019.
Guyana are the defending champions from 2018, when they won the 50-over title in St Vincent and the Grenadines for a fifth consecutive time, and they will be eying a sixth consecutive championship.
Hand-in-Hand executive Howard Cox presenting the ‘three-day’ winning trophy to Berbice U-19 Captain Kevlon Anderson
This 2019 tournament will play in only one version, the 50-over title, and Guyana will be eying to continue their winning ways.
The tournament has been slated to play in Guyana, but the venue remains unconfirmed. Guyana will have at least eight members from the 2018 squad playing in the 2019 tournament.
In 2017, Guyana also reigned supreme in the U-19 One-Day championship, when they won the title in St Kitts and Nevis under one of the most successful youth coaches, Julian Moore. Speaking at the presentation ceremony, Head of Cricket Guyana Inc., Anand Sanasie, disclosed that the branding of the Regional U-19 Team is an additional incentive.
He further added that this U-19 tournament is the premiere tournament, not only for Guyana U-19 selection, but for transition into the senior levels, where some of the players may earn Academy contracts. The Insurance giants Hand-in-Hand have continued to show their interest in cricket by taking an inter-county match to Berbice after it had been absent for a decade from that county.
The 2019 Hand-in-hand Inter-County tournament remains a success year after year, with players participating in the tournament moving up to higher levels in representing Guyana and the West Indies. The 2019 inter-county tournament saw four West Indies U-19 selectees participating, and one of them has U-19 World Cup experience.
Ashmead Nedd, a left-arm spinner, has had the opportunity, while his Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) teammate Sachin Singh and Berbicians Kelvin Umroa and Kevlon Anderson are the Windies U-19 selectees that are products of the Hand-in-Hand U-19 Inter-County tournament.
