Monty Lynch X1 starts 3-match goodwill tour today

Oct 07, 2008 Sports

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Members of the Monty Lynch X1 pose for Kaieteur Sport after their practice session at the GCC ground Bourda yesterday afternoon.

Former Guyana and England County player Monty Lynch is on a Mission of giving back to the Land of his birth through the sport that brought him world fame and recognition.

Lynch, along with a number of his colleagues and acquaintances who still play the game in England including Martin Jean-Jacques, who opened the bowling for County side Derbyshire in 1986, will commence a 3-match tour of Guyana today against a Ministry of Culture Youth and Sport team at the Carifesta Sports Complex ground.

According to Lynch who the captain of the team and also the Managing Director of a Sports Equipment Company, Malskills, this trip takes the form of a pilot project since his ultimate aim beginning next year is to bring teams from England on Educational tours here.

“My aim is to bring school teams on educational tours to Guyana. I am also looking at the possibility of inviting the South Hampton Institute and the Trinidad Institute to come here.”

Lynch told Kaieteur Sport that it is also his wish that players from Guyana are able to cash in on scholarships available at the South Hampton Institute.

Monty Lynch

The other England based members of the Monty Lynch X1 are fast bowler Hugh

Martin Jean-Jacques

Williams of Jamaica who is also the captain of the Glaxo Club, batsmen, Lee Wood, James Teale and Louis Lynch son of Monty.

Some of the local guest players with the Monty Lynch X1 are former Guyana nationals Rabindranauth Seeram and Andre Percival. The two other matches, one of which be played in Berbice will be confirmed shortly.

Today’s match, which will be a 35-over affair, starts at 10:00hrs. Minister of Culture Youth and Sport Dr. Frank Anthony is expected to meet the teams before the start of today’s match.

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