RHTY&SC grooming female quartet for selection to ICC World Cup 2023

The Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC) has, since 2008, been the only cricket club to have invested in female cricket, and currently, that club has the only female cricket club in the entire country.

Since its formation, the Rose Hall Town Metro Female Team, led by West Indies player Shemaine Campbelle, has never been defeated in any of the numerous tournaments organised by the club and the proactive Berbice Cricket Board (BCB), which remains the only county board to organise matches for females.
This team has also won the only national female tournament organised by the Guyana Cricket Board, way back in 2009; but has never been given opportunity to defend the title, because no other such tournament has since been organised.
Under the guidance of Cricket Coach Delbert Hicks, the RHTY&SC has launched a special training programme for a quartet of female players, with the objective of making the national under-19 team in 2022, and the West Indies Under-19 Team for the ICC World Cup in 2023.
The club has, to date, produced four international players for the West Indies in Shemaine Campbelle, Erva Giddings, Sheneta Grimmond and Shabika Gajnabi, and Foster has said that, as a visionary organisation, the RHTY&SC is now planning well ahead to have at least one player in the West Indies under-19 team in 2023.
The four players who are in the special training sessions are Trisha Hardat, Leah Kamalall, Lakshmi Mahadeo and Dharshamie Subramanie. Coach Delbert Hicks shared that the quartet has the potential to follow in the footsteps of their senior counterparts, and one day wear the famous maroon uniform, once they remain focused and committed.
Kamalall is a wicketkeeper and batter, while the talented Hardat is a hard-hitting middle order batter who also bowls medium pace. Mahadeo is a technically- correct left-handed batter and spinner, while Subramanie, at just 14 years old, is the baby of this set of players. Hicks has said that Subramanie would prove to be a headache for many batters at the youth level, with her pace and swing.
These players are working assiduously on their physical fitness, while special work is also being done on their ground fielding and catching.
Cricket Manager Ravindranauth Kissoonlall has disclosed that special sessions would be organised with the club’s current international female players, while the quartet would also be involved in social skills’ seminars along with other junior members of the club. Among the topics that would be covered at those seminars would be public speaking, table etiquette, public manners, mental health, and the importance of education.
The club would also be working assiduously with the girls to make sure they remain focused on their educational careers, and would be assisting them in this regard with educational materials.
Young females who were born on or after 1st September 2004 are being encouraged to join the club and become a part of the programme. The RHTY&SC female team is sponsored by Metro Office and Computer Supplies.