RHTY&SC Annual Awards Ceremony for 2024: Tameshwar Deonandan, Danielle Manns named Youth Cricketers of 2024

Having named Tameshwar Deonandan and Danielle Manns as its male and female Junior Cricketers of the Year 2024, the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC) has presented each of these awardees with a 32-inch television set and a cricket bat during a simple ceremony that occurred last Friday at the Area H Ground at Port Mourant, Corentyne, Berbice.

This presentation was done by Cricket Manager Robby Kissoonlall of the Cricket Development Committee of the club – one of the club’s founders in 1990 – who expressed how pleased the club was to honour these two young cricketers for their outstanding performances during the year.

Tameshwar Deonandan
Tameshwar Deonandan is the current captain of the Rose Hall Town Farfan and Mendes Under-15 Team. He represented Guyana at the Under-13 level in 2022 and 2023.
This year, he represented Berbice in the Guyana Cricket Board’s Under-15 Inter-County Tournament as team vice-captain.
He is a wicket-keeper and a solid middle order batsman, who currently represents the RHTY&SC at the under-15, under-17, under-19, under-21, and first and second division levels.
In 2024, Deonandan scored more than 500 runs at the junior level, among which were two attractive centuries. He struck a solid 150 versus Whim and 126 versus RHT ‘B’ as he spearheaded his team to the quarterfinals of the tournament, which would be played shortly.
Cricket Manager Kissoonlall has hailed the personal discipline and committee of Deonandan, and declared that he has a future in the game, once he remains committed.

Danielle Manns
Sixteen-year-old Danielle Manns has been named female youth player for 2024 after performing well for Berbice and Guyana in under-19 tournaments.
She gained selection to the West Indies team that toured England prior to the 2025 ICC World Cup, where she was a standby player. She was also named in the Berbice senior team for the 2025 inter-county senior tournament, and plans to work hard on her leg spin bowling with the main aim of making the senior Guyana team in two years’ time.
Currently preparing to write the CSEC exams at the Lower Corentyne Secondary School, Manns has attracted huge praise from management of the RHYY&SC for her active role in off-the-field activities.

Decline
Kissoonlall noted that during the period 1990 to 2022, the RHTY&SC had hosted Guyana’s largest awards ceremonies, but the activity ceased after club secretary Hilbert Foster became ill in early 2023.
He said that awardees of the club were all selected by the Cricket Development Committee based on performances on the field, personal discipline, attendance at practice, commitment to assist in off-the-field activities, and willingness to learn.
He said the RHTY&SC would like to thank management and staff of Regal Stationery for donating the two television sets, and MR. Anil Beharry for donating the two bats under his Cricket Gears project.
Asst Cricket Manager Keith Hicks has said that youth cricketers of the club continue to work hard to uphold the traditionally high standards of the RHTY&SC, which was founded in 1990 by three-time Guyana and Commonwealth Youth Service Awardee the St. Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Youth Club.
The RHTY&SC has, over the last 35 years, produced a total of 126 players for Berbice, Guyana and the West Indies; while it has won a total of 124 tournaments, including 3 national titles.