Ontario Softball Cricket League: Essequibo Coast aiming for success at OSCL tourney

The newly formed Essequibo Coast Cricket Club will be looking to create a good impression in this year’s Ontario Softball Cricket League (OSCL) 20-over season, which commenced on Saturday July 10 with 6 matches being played simultaneously.
Skipper of the club, Kenny Ramsawak, is all excited, and has expressed profound confidence that ‘his boys’ would reap success. Essequibo Coast will open their campaign against another new team, Miss Phoebe, at Ashtonbee Park in Scarborough.
There was no competition in 2020 because of COVID-19, and this season has again been shortened because of the deadly virus, which had put a hold on all outdoor activities for the past 18 months.

Ramsawak mentioned that the break from the game was very sad, but understandable. He had featured in the OSCL tournament in 2019 with his club, Smashers Cricket Club, but through the initiative of former Essequibo and Guyana youth player Devon Ramnauth, this new club is ready to represent the Cinderella County with “passion, purpose and commitment”.
“I [am] indeed delighted to get back on the cricket field. I must say thanks to the OSCL in getting things going during this torrid time,” Ramsawak has said.
He disclosed that his team is packed with mostly Canada-based Guyanese who hail from Essequibo, and he decided to form a club to participate in this annual softball cricket competition.
“There are a lot of Essequibian softball cricketers in Toronto. Me and Devon decided to come up with the name and to keep the name Essequibo flying when it comes to cricket,” Ramsawak declared.
Ramsawak has said there are several players in the team who would have played for Essequibo at inter-county level, and they just want to keep playing the game they definitely adore.
Apart from Ramnauth, Dillion Heyliger, Raakesh Goberdhan, Raj Sankar, Ravendra Madholall, Fazil Ghani and Motie Naraine are some of the members who featured for Essequibo; while Ivan Narine, who captained Essequibo at the first inter-county softball tournament in 1992, is also included in the Essequibo Coast’s lineup.
Essequibo Coast will have another assignment today when they collide with Three Counties, this time at Littles venue, also in Scarborough.
The 12-team competition is expected to be run on a round-robin basis until September 19. There will be playoffs, semis and a final.