Weather permitting, the historic Port Mourant Cricket Ground on the Corentyne Coast in East Berbice, home to seven Test cricketers, will on Saturday be hosting the Finals of the 2019 BCB/Stag Beer 50 Overs First Division Tournament.
The late Basil Butcher
Arch-rivals Rose Hall Town Namilco Thunderbolt Flour and Tucber Park Cricket Club will do battle for the $100,000 first prize.
The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) has dedicated the finals of this tournament to the memory of the late legendary cricketer Basil Butcher, who played 44 Test matches for the West Indies after making his Test debut versus India in 1958.
Upon his retirement in 1969, Butcher had scored 3104 runs at an average of 43.11, with seven centuries and sixteen half-centuries. Named as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1970, Butcher is also an inductee into the BCB Hall of Fame.
The Stag Beer Finals is the first of three First Division Finals to be played over the next two weeks. The others are the Ivan Madray Memorial 20/20 and the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club Busta Champion of Champions 40 Overs.
Rose Hall Town Namilco Thunderbolt Flour and Albion Community Centre will clash in both finals.
