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Kaieteur News
Letter to the Sports Editor
Saturday December 14, 2013
Farfan & Mendes Junior Christmas Tournament
The Government is deceitful Boyce leads players on winner’s row
DEAR EDITOR, We the Presidents of West Demerara Cricket Association and East Bank Demerara Cricket Association are astonished at an Article you carried in your Thursday edition Captioned “ Joint Opposition shoots down Cricket Bill Petition by stakeholders”. Editor, the WDCA and EBDCA are Sub Associations of the Demerara Cricket Board and we hereby categorically state that we did not sign or support a petition of any form especially the one quoted in your Article. It is deceitful of
the crafters of the defeated petition to include our associations or its members in their continued destruction of our game. We would also like to state that the so called “stakeholders” are the “has been” of cricket administration or rather” mal administration”. Mr. Odinga Lumumba, who presented the petition on behalf of Frank Anthony and his government should be ashamed of themselves. Kudos to the Joint Opposition, you are certainly looking after the interest of
the citizenry. We urge and support the Guyana Cricket Board to continue its good work despite the challenges. Please ensure that our brothers in Linden are assisted to set up a proper structure and receive special attention in their development process. Yours in Sports, Rishi Digamber, President, West Demerara Cricket Association Rohan Sarjoo, President, East Bank Demerara Cricket Association
Essequibo played in Jones Cup final in 1980 DEAR EDITOR, While indeed the Essequibo cricket teams have not achieved significant success on the field in the history of inter-county cricket tournaments, I feel compelled however to correct Mr. Sean Devers’ historical error in his article ‘ M a t c h e s o n t o day at Enmore and Everest’ written in the Kaieteur newspaper dated 2013-12-05. His submission erroneously stated that
Essequibo have never reached an inter-county final when in fact Essequibo played Berbice in the senior four day Jones Cup final in 1980 at Hampton Court. Berbice won the match by nine wickets inside three days. Essequibo’s fast bowler Elbert Stephens took six wickets including 5-56 in the first innings, while Romain Etwaroo of Berbice made the top score in the match with 70. Some of Essequibo’s
stalwarts who played in the game included the late Courtney Gonsalves, Alfred Maycock, Beni Sankar, Lennox Alves, Jeff Jones and the late Birchmore Reid. Such treasured history still inspires the young players from Essequibo even though it is miniscule when compared to the outstanding successes of both Demerara and Berbice. Yours Faithfully, Elroy Stephney.
Paul Di Resta left out as Force India sign Sergio Perez for 2014 From page 33 continued to impress for Sauber this season. Perez, who has been dropped by McLaren after a season alongside Jenson Button, brings with him several million pounds worth of sponsorship from Mexico. Perez said: “Coming here [to Force India] was always my first choice and I’m really happy everything has now been confirmed. “This is a young team with a lot of determination and they’ve produced competitive cars for the last few years. “It’s all change for next season with the new regulations, but I already have a good feeling about 2014.” Di Resta was overlooked by top teams Red Bull, Ferrari and McLaren when they all changed their second drivers ahead of 2013. And his ability to find a seat elsewhere has been harmed by his lack of sponsorship budget. Team bosses feel that he has not proved to be outstanding enough in his
Paul Di Resta three seasons for it to be worth them taking the financial hit of signing him. Sauber have not yet announced their line-up but there is understood to be no place for Di Resta at the Swiss team. They are expected to sign his former Force India team-mate Adrian Sutil as their lead driver. Their second seat is likely to go to either Mexican Esteban Gutierrez, who made
his debut for Sauber in 2013, or a Russian in deference to their new business partners. That could be former Lotus and Caterham driver Vitaly Petrov or the 19-yearold novice Sergey Sirotkin, who is considered more likely to become Sauber’s reserve driver as a result of his lack of experience. B a c k m arker teams Caterham and Marussia have seats available, but Di Resta is not in the frame for them. Marussia have already signed Frenchman Jules Bianchi for a second season and are expected to keep hold of his 2013 teammate Englishman Max Chilton as well. Caterham’s line-up is still up in the air, with 2013 race drivers Giedo van der Garde and Charles Pic still options, along with GP2 driver Marcus Ericsson of Sweden, exMcLaren, Renault and Caterham racer Heikki Kovalainanen and a number of others. Di Resta’s manager Richard Goddard was unavailable for comment.
The Guyana Squash Association in collaboration with its main corporate sponsor, Digicel, continued to host play in the Farfan & Mendes Junior Christmas Tournament which is being held daily at the Georgetown Club Ltd. Squash courts. Matches continued on Wednesday night with play in several categories. Rayad Boyce led winners on the night, playing in Category F. he defeated Alexander Persaud in straight games, Persaud fighting harder in the final set but eventually succumbing.
Results from the various categories: Category F Rayad Boyce defeated Alexander Persaud 11 – 4, 11 – 8 Paige Fernandes defeated Aliyah Persaud 11 – 6, 11 – 7, Category E Michael Alphonso defeated Madison Fernandes 11 – 6, 11 – 2 Category D Gianni Carpenter defeated John Phang 12 – 10, 6 – 11, 11- 9, 11 – 9 Category C Jael Gaskin beat Michael
Ramroop 7 – 11, 7 – 11, 11 – 7, 12 – 10, 11 – 4 Anthony Islam beat Maya Collins 14 – 12, 11 – 3, 11 – 4, Dennis Bagot defeated Savannah Mendes 6 – 11, 11 – 8, 11- 6, 11- 4 Category B Matthew Phang defeated Alexander Cheeks 10 – 12, 11 – 2, 11 – 8, 11 – 8 Rebecca Low beat Daniel Islam 9 – 11, 11 – 5, 11- 6,8 – 11, 11 – 6 Matches continue today with the final set of games scheduled to commence at 10:00am tomorrow.
No. 71 and Young Warriors clash in NBS Final tomorrow at No.69 After e n d u r i n g t w o rainy seasons and the beginning of a third, at long last, the 2013 New Building Society Second Division 40-Over Cricket Competition, w h i c h h a d over one hundred participating teams, will be reaching its climax tomorrow when the final is scheduled to be run off at the No.69 Village Ground. Clashing for the title will be Young Warriors of Cumberland East Canje and No.71 of the Upper Corentyne area, both evenly balanced teams having shown much resilience by not losing a match so far in the round robin competition which was played in sixteen zones. The Young Warriors batting will depend heavily on their former Guyana under-15 and Berbice under-19 cricketer, Kevin Ramdeen, who has so far registered a century and two half centuries in the competition. The only other half centurion in the team is former Berbice under-19 cricketer, Ishwar Singh, but others such as Mortimer Fraser, Sanjay Khan, Rudolph Baker, Anil Beharry and Berbice under17 all-rounder Kassim Khan and veteran Hubern Evans have contributed consistently. T h e Yo u n g Wa r r i o r s
Kevin Ramdeen
Soomdat Singh
mostly spin attack will be spearheaded by left-arm spinner Beharry, who is a past Berbice all-rounder, off-spinners Sanjay Khan, a former Guyana under-15 and Berbice under-19 cricketer, Romesh Munna, Ishwar Singh, Kevin Ramdeen and Hubern “Silver Fox” Evans. The pacers in the squad are Kawal Mangal and Kassim Khan. The No.71 batting lineup will be spearheaded by the prolific Soomdat Singh, who has amassed 500 runs; the most runs in the tournament by an individual and which included two centuries and two half centuries, Khemraj Sugrim, Fiaz Mohamed and Andrew Seamber, all have half
centuries under their belts, while Nazim Mohamed, Deoprakash Ramdat, Manouram Vincent, Navin Vincent and Lionel Seegobin have all scored useful runs in the past. Their bowling lineup includes three medium pacers in Karamchand Roopraj, Nazim Mohamed and Seegobin, two left arm spinners in brothers Navin and Manouram Vincent and off-spinner Deoprakash Ramdat. Umpires Zaheer Moakan and Clement Brusche will officiate with Omadat Samaroo doing standby duties. The match will commence at 11:00am and the teams and officials will be met by BCB and NBS officials.
Intercontinental Cup final: Ireland beat Afghanistan by 122 runs From page 37 cricket.” Porterfield paid tribute to Johnston, who is also a member of the ICC Cricket Committee. “A big part of us over the last 10 years has been Trent Johnston. He has been a massive figure since a lot of this team started play-
ing. “I made my debut under Trent. I have played some 160-170 times with him. There are a lot of young lads who have learnt a lot from him and there are a lot of lads now chomping at the bit to take his place.
“That’s the fitting way for Trent to sign off and pick up that trophy.” The ICC competition gives associate members their first chance to play first-class cricket. Scores: Ireland 187 and 341; Afghanistan 182 & 224.