RHTY&SC, Albion express disappointment over Jaguars Franchise League planning
According to a joint press release by the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club, M.S and the Albion Cricket Club they have expressed disappointment in the manner which the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Jaguars Franchise League 3-day has been organized.
The release stated, “the management of the two top Cricket Clubs in Berbice – The Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club, M.S and the Albion Cricket Club would like to express our profound disappointment on the arrangements in place for the upcoming Guyana Cricket Board 3 days inter Zone Tournament. The two Clubs which produces the most cricketers for Berbice has been kept in the dark about arrangements for the upcoming tournament and who is responsible for the selection of the Upper Corentyne and Lower Corentyne or New Amsterdam Teams”.
Hilbert Foster Secretary/CEO RHTY&SC, M.S
It further stated, “To make matters worse, the Berbice Cricket Board has not been consulted or informed of plans for the tournament. The two Clubs who together share a record nine Guyana Cricket Club of the Year Award are very concerned about the current state of affairs.
The RHTY&SC, M.S and the ACC are committed towards uniting all the factions of Guyana’s Cricket but we would not be willing to do so in the future if greater effort is not made to ensure that our cricket is administered in a transparent manner. The two Clubs seeks urgent answers to the following questions.
Who were the persons responsible for selecting the teams and what were the criteria’s used ?
Why was the BCB not consulted despite the efforts to unite the two cricket boards?
Does the sponsoring of teams gives the sponsor, the sole right to select players for a team?
Is it not a conflict of interest for a President of a Cricket Club to be a sponsor of a team, which his Club is involved in?
Why was the Clubs and the BCB not consulted on the arrangements for the tournament. Our advice and suggestions would have assisted in better arrangements.
Who selected the Officials for the Tournament and what were the criteria used?
Is it a deliberate policy to side-line the top two Cricket Clubs in Berbice and the BCB when we were open to healing the wounds in Guyana’s Cricket?”
“Why were a lot of promising young cricketers like Josiah Dhanai, Kevlon Anderson, Kevin Sinclair and Slyus Tyndall left out of the eighteen man squad and the highly productive Collis Butts was not considered? Butts was the Man of the Finals in the last BCB First Division Tournament.
The RHTY&SC, M.S and ACC are major stakeholder in Berbice and Guyana’s cricket and together have ideas and suggestions that would assist in the development of the game. We are a lost while we are being side-lined” the release ended.
