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Be a part of history at Providence tomorrow!
Massive party planned for historic Day/Night El
Dorado cricket final
Night cricket is plenty of fun for the entire family as this photo from the Stanford 20/20 tournament in Antigua shows. (Stanford2020 photo)
By Sean Devers
The excitement is already building as the prospects of being a part of history looms for cricket fans as the National Stadium at Providence hosts its first cricket match under flood lights tomorrow when Demerara and Berbice face-off in the El Dorado 50-overs Inter-County final from 15:00hrs.
The atmosphere at night cricket is usually high-energy and party-like and tomorrow promises to be no different with the sponsors ensuring that the pulsating rhythms from one of one Guyana’s top sound systems is in the Party stand to entertain the fans from as early as 13:00hrs when the gates will be thrown open.
The gyrating Eldorado girls, plenty of DDL beverages and of course riveting cricket on Guyana’s premier cricket ground is anticipated.
Tickets are just $500 and go on sale from 13:00hrs at the Stadium while children under 12 will be admitted free and with the chance of seeing cricket, the sport the stadium was initially built to accommodate, for the first time ever under proper lights in Guyana, the venue should be ram-packed and jumping even before the first ball is bowled at 15:00hrs.
I was a part of the CMC Radio commentary team for the first ever regional cricket competition under lights in Barbados last year and I was also a part of the Stanford 20/20 night matches and the food, dancing, fun and frolic as one team chases down a victory target under a starry night sky is something to behold.
The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) has assured that there will be adequate police presence and that parking is free next to the Stadium, while DDL informed that no glasses or glass bottles will be allowed inside the venue although spectators are free to bring their food baskets, flags, horns and drums to enjoy themselves well into the night.
The GCB has to pay to rent the Stadium in addition to paying a fee of $50,000 per hour for the use of the lights and a crowd of well over 10,000 is expected tomorrow.
Security will be ‘tight’ at the venue and the GCB is reminding the media that only accredited sports journalists covering the event will be allowed entry into the Media stand since a normal media pass will not be accepted. Media houses are asked to contact the Cricket Board for their media passes today.
On the field, the action is expected to be exhilarating as favorites Berbice, led by West Indies Test player Narsingh Deonarine, look to dethrone Demerara who will be led by Guyana’s newest West Indies ODI player Leon Johnson.
With Test players Sewnarine Chattergoon and Mahendra Nagamootoo also in their line-up along with Esaun Crandon, Royston Crandon, Assad Fudadin, Homchand Pooran and the genuinely quick Brandon Bess in the side, Berbice are aiming to show their win against Demerara in the preliminary round at Blairmount was no fluke although they struggled to get past Essequibo in the last round at Wales.
Demerara will depend on players like the dynamic Chris Barnwell, Rajendra Chandrika, Steven Jacobs, Johnson, Zaheer Mohamed, Krishna Deosarran, Shemroy Barrington and Orin Forde to swing the fortune in their team’s favor
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