Nandu joins elite group of Guyanese with century...

FROM BACK PAGE dos at Bourda before scoring 131 in his next game against the Leewards, also at Bourda in 1987 and Carl Hooper, who scored a majestic 126 as an 18-year-old, also against Barbados at the Kensington Oval in 1985.

Guyanese Stephen Camacho scored 106 on his regional first-class debut against Trinidad & Tobago at Queen’s Park Oval in February 1966 for British Guyana after making his first-class debut against Australia.

Camacho’s hundred was made in the first year of the Shell Shield. Shell Gas company sponsored the Regional frist-class tournament until 1987.

Back in 1956, Joe Soloman made 114 not out on his Regional first class debut against Jamaica at Bourda before making 108 against Barbados at the same venue in his next match.

There were a few others who scored debut hundreds for British Guiana before May 26, 1966, when Guyana be- came a sovereign nation; gaining Independence from the British.

The talented Nandu now has the opportunity to join Soloman and Dhaniram with centuries in their first two matches at this level.