The management and members of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTYSC) have extended their congratulations to fellow member Kevlon Anderson on his selection in the West Indies squad to play Australia in the forthcoming test series. If selected in the final eleven for the first test, Anderson would be the third RHTYSC player to play Test cricket, following in the footsteps of Assad Fudadin and Kevin Sinclair.
Kevlon Anderson will soon don the West Indies’ whites
He joined the club at the tender age of eleven years, and over the years, Anderson has represented the club at all levels: under-13, under-15, under-17, under-19, under-21, under-23, intermediate, second division and first division. He has scored over five thousand runs for the club with ten centuries and fifty-six fifties while taking a total of 173 wickets at all levels. He has also captained the club at all levels and only last year led the club to the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) under-23 tournament win. Additionally, He has won numerous awards at the RHTYSC annual awards ceremony, including Cricketer of the Year. Kevlon has benefitted from numerous coaching programmes, organised by both the club and the Berbice Cricket Board.
The RHTYSC, MS, which was founded in 1990 by three-time Commonwealth Youth Service Awardee the St Francis Community Developers, has so far produced a total of one hundred and twenty-six players for Berbice and Guyana. Fifteen have gone on to play for the West Indies at different levels, while nine have played at the international level.
They are Assad Fudadin, Royston Crandon, Dominic Rikhi, Kevin Sinclair, Akshay Homraj, Shemaine Campbelle, Erva Giddings, Shabika Gajnabi and Sheneeta Grimmond. Homraj and Rikhi represent the United States of America at the ODI level, while Campbell is the only Guyanese to have ever captained the West Indies at the senior female level. The club’s current membership includes prominent cricketers like Trisha Hardat and Daniella Manns, who are West Indies under-19 players, along with others like Jonathan Rampersaud, Junior Sinclair, Sylus Tyndall, Keith Simpson, Jermey Sandia, Aeon Hooper, Keon Sinclair, Matthew Pottaya, Plaffiana Millington, Romesh Bharrat, Rafeal Mckenzie and Leon Reddi. With the Caribbean female team set to play Test cricket next year, the club is expecting to produce more Test players in the near future.
The RHTYSC, which has won a record 127 cricket tournaments between 1992 and present, has dedicated Kevlon’s achievement to the official sponsors of the club, who have played a part in his development. They include Farfan and Mendes Ltd, Bakewell, DDL/Pepsi and the National Milling Company (NAMILCO). The membership of the club also wished Anderson a long and fruitful test career with the West Indies.
