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GUYANA CHRONICLE Wednesday, January 17, 2018
Farfan & Mendes continues partnership with RHTY&SC THE highly successful relationship between the Providence-based Farfan and Mendes Limited and Guyana’s leading youth and sports organisation, the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC) M.S., was renewed for the 22nd successive year. The company and the club have enjoyed a close and cordial relationship since 1997, when Farfan and Mendes Limited came on board as the official sponsor of the RHTY&SC Under-15 team. This year’s sponsorship is worth $250 000. RHTY&SC Secretary/ CEO, Hilbert Foster, noted that Farfan and Mendes Limited is currently the longest-serving official sponsor of the club and over the years has played a major role in its devel-
opment. Foster hailed the company as the main foundation of the club’s remarkable success story. “In a country where sponsorship for sports is difficult to obtain, the relationship between the RHTY&SC and Farfan & Mendes Ltd can only be described as extra special,” Foster said. The team, Foster said, would continue to represent the company and its brand with pride, passion and discipline. The team have won five Berbice Under-15 championships, the Berbice championship and also eight other tournaments organised by the RHTY&SC. Over the last 22 years the club has provided numerous players who have played for Berbice, Guyana and the West Indies.
The Under-15 cricketers over the years have successfully completed hundreds of personal development programmes with the main aim of assisting their peers, the elderly and the less fortunate. The largest project completed by the team was the construction of the Hugh Desmond Hoyte Memorial Playfield. The team is also the host of ‘The Dare to Dream and Make a Wish’ Programmes. With the formation of the King Solomon Logistics Under-12 and Poonai Pharmacy Under-13 teams, the Under-15 team now has a permanent feeder system for players. Four of the team’s players have been shortlisted in the Berbice Cricket Board Under-15 squad for the upcoming
Onai Vasconcellos hands over sponsorship to Hilbert Foster.
Inter-county championship while several were involved in the recent Inter-zone Under-13 and Under-15 tournaments. Marketing Executive of Farfan & Mendes Ltd, Onai Vasconcellos, hailed the close bond between the two organisations. Farfan & Mendes Ltd, Vasconcellos noted, is dedicated to a longterm relationship with the RHTY&SC, an organisation which is a role model to others in Guyana. Vasconcellos praised the Under-15 cricketers for being outstanding representatives of his company’s brand and logo. He expressed satisfaction that the company’s finances were used for the intended purpose and proving to be a very productive investment.
Marshall to play for United Date set for Afghanistan’s maiden Test States in Regional Super 50 By Amlan Chakraborty
Former West Indies opener Xavier Marshall
MIAMI, Florida, (CMC) – West Indies flop Xavier Marshall will turn out for United States in the Regional Super50 starting later this month, after being named in the 14-man squad for the one-day tournament. The 31-year-old Jamaican played seven Tests and 24 One-Day Internationals for West Indies but failed to make much of an impression during an underwhelming career. He managed just two Test half-centuries and a single hundred in ODIs – an unbeaten 157 against Canada 10 years ago. Marshall disappeared from international cricket in 2009 following poor form and last appeared in the West Indies domestic competition five years ago, when he represented Jamaica in the one-day tournament. He subsequently migrated to the United States. Marshall follows in the footsteps of fellow Jamaican and Test star, Jer-
maine Lawson, who also turned out for the United States four years ago at the ICC World Cricket League Division Three tournament in Kuala Lumpur. Lawson played Test 13 Tests. Marshall, a powerful right-hander, joins former India Under-19 players Saurabh Netravalkar and Sunny Sohal, in the US squad. United States will do battle in Group B of the Regional Super50 which runs from January 30 to February 24, alongside Jamaica Scorpions, Leeward Islands Hurricanes, Guyana Jaguars and English County Kent. T h e g ro u p w i l l b e staged in Antigua while Group A, comprising reigning champions Barbados Pride, Trinidad and Tobago Red Force, Combined Campuses & Colleges Marooners, Windward Islands Volcanoes and English County Hampshire, will be contested in Barbados.
NEW DELHI, India (Reuters) - Afghanistan will play their inaugural Test match between June 14 and 18 in Bengaluru against neighbours India, the cricket boards announced yesterday. Afghanistan and Ireland joined the ranks of full-member nations of the International Cricket Council last June, taking the total number of Test-playing countries to 12. The Indian board (BCCI) has consistently backed Afghanistan, who played a home match against Ireland last year at a stadium in Greater Noida, on the outskirts of New Delhi. “Afghanistan and India have been traditional friends, even diplomatically, for ages and it’s only appropriate that Afghanistan opened its international innings in India,” BCCI acting secretary Amitabh Choudhary told reporters. Choudhary said Bengaluru was the obvious choice to stage the match bearing in mind the expected weather conditions in other parts of the country in June. “At that point of time in the year, there will be rains almost everywhere, and where there will not be rain, there will be such heat that cricket would be practically impossible during day time,” he said.
Cricket has a long history in Afghanistan but the country only gained full one-day international (ODI) status in 2011. In 2015, still suffering from the impact of war and conflict, Afghanistan took part in their first 50-over World Cup and they have also played in the World Twenty20
our application for full membership was under consideration or making the facilities available for us, technical assistance. We really recognise it and appreciate it.” ACB chief executive Shafiq Stanikzai said the June Test will be a dreamcome-true for the Afghanistan players, and would trigger the
sport’s growth. “Cricket has a bright future in Afghanistan. We have raw talents, the only thing is we need is to polish them and give them proper exposure,” he said. “Our target is to be a competitive side in Test cricket in the coming three years.”
History will be made in June when Afghanistan compete in Test cricket for the first time, with India their opponents.
competition. “The historic friendship and relations between India and Afghanistan go back to centuries. I‘m glad that cricket is now added as another layer,” Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) chairman Atif Mashal said. “The support BCCI has provided to ACB in the last several years has been tremendous - whether it’s backing Afghanistan in ICC while
CRICKET QUIZ CORNER (Wednesday January 17, 2018) COMPLIMENTS OF THE TROPHY STALL-Bourda Market & The City Mall (Tel: 225-9230) & CUMMINGS ELECTRICAL COMPANY LTD-83 Garnett Street, Campbellville, Georgetown (Tel: 225-6158) Answers to yesterday’s quiz: (1) Courtney Walsh-227 ODI wickets (2) Winston Davies-7/51 (vs AUST, Leeds, 1983) Today’s Quiz: (1) Which WI has scored most centuries in ODIs to date? (2) Which WI bowler has taken most four-wicket hauls in ODIs to date? Answers in tomorrow’s issue