Panthera Solutions donates $400K worth of cricket gear to RHTYSC

Over the last 36 years, the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTYSC) has worked hard to become one of the best in Guyana, and it is our aspiration to continue doing so in the future.
According to the club, their aim is to produce ten youth players for Guyana over the next five years and two more test players for the West Indies. This investment by Panthera Solutions today would play a major role in assisting us to achieve our objective.
Those were the words of RHTYSC Secretary Hilbert Foster at the official handing over ceremony of cricket gear by Panthera Solutions Ltd to the management of the club.
The presentation took place last Saturday at the St Francis Community Developers and was witnessed by senior managers of the company, RHTYSC officials and members of the club’s junior cricket teams. The donation included a large amount of cricket balls, four junior cricket bats, batting pads, batting gloves, wicketkeeping gloves, helmets and wicketkeeping pads.

Foster, the former President of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB), stated that since its founding in 1990 by the St Francis Club, the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club has produced 131 players for Berbice at all levels, with 76 going on to play for Guyana. 14 of them have played for the West Indies and the United States, including Asad Fudadin, Royston Crandon, Kevon Sinclair, Kelvon Anderson, Shemaine Campbelle, Shebika Gajnabi, Eva Giddings, Sheneta Grimmond, Akshay Homraj and Dominic Rikhi. He expressed gratitude to Panthera for their assistance, which would assist the club to organise developmental sessions for dozens of exciting talents in the afternoons and on Saturdays at the Area H ground.
Cricket manager Robby Kissondial stated that the club has a wide range of cricketing talents with players like Jayden Ganpat, Rafael Mekenzie, Tameshwar Deonandan, Daniella Mauns, Danielle Hicks, Trisha Hardat, Munesh Rampersaud, Leon Reddy, Jonathan Hicks, Akeem Fraser and Disham Le Cruz. The long-serving cricket manager stated that nine-year-old Eion Dhuppat is one of the most exciting batting talents in the club, and he is receiving special emphasis from the coaching staff.

As part of its developmental programme, the club on Saturday last handed over a total of $300,000.00 worth of cricket gear to promising players. The gear included cricket bats, cricket balls, helmets, batting pads, thigh pads and batting gloves. Receiving the equipment were Jayden Coupet, Khemraj Bharat, Jonathan Hicks, Leon Reddy, Asteir Narine, Dinesh Singh, Disham Le Cruz, Azad Ali, Ronaldo Roberts, Ezekiel Horry, Jahleel Grant, Joshua Dhuarraj, Shamar Thompson, Aeon Dhuppat, Anthony Sirkisson and Randy Williams.
Kissonlall urged the players to take proper care of the donated gear and to dedicate themselves to the club’s training programme. The RHTYSC also rewarded Jayden Ganpat, who in December was named the Best Guyanese Bowler in the Goodwill Under-13 tournament versus Barbados. He received a large trophy, a medal of excellence and a box of white cricket balls to work on his bowling at home.
General Manager of Panthera Solution, Andrew Dinsdale, stated that his company was very impressed with the work the RHTYSC was doing and noted that they have been supporting the club since 2019. Incoming General Manager Tony Turnbull, who takes over in May, hailed the RHTYSC as a perfect role model for other cricket clubs and pledged further assistance in the future.