Much anticipated GCB elections today at GCC

Jan 25, 2009 Sports

DCB pledge all nine votes to incumbent Singh

By Sean Devers
Despite his excellent work as Georgetown Cricket Association President and business savvy, Bish Panday appears to be behind in the race for the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Presidency going into the final lap of the contest.
The GCB holds its Annual General Meeting and elections today from 10:00hrs, at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) pavilion.
Up to last night, unofficial polls indicated that incumbent President Chetram Singh, who has been at the helm of Guyana’s cricket since August 1991, was the more popular of the two candidates for the Presidency after the newly elected Demerara Cricket Board publicly pledged all of their nine votes to Singh.
While Panday seems assured of the votes from the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB), the Essequibo Cricket Board, at their last statutory meeting were undecided as to whom they would support as a board and a vote indicated that five of the nine delegates from Essequibo wanted Singh reinstated which could prove the crucial factor today.
While they are without votes, two Government parliamentarians have openly endorsed Singh and their support could prove influential since Government’s assistance for any local sporting organisation is of vital importance to its success.
After their landslide victory, President of the DCB Bissoon Singh told the media that his board will be supporting Singh because they feel that of the two candidates, Singh was the best person to lead Guyana into the 20/20 World Cup next year.
Guyana, along with St Lucia and Barbados will host matches in the 20/20 World Cup and the DCB feels that since Chetram Singh was at the helm when Guyana successfully hosted the ICC 2007 Cricket World Cup.
“Singh has a history of leading the GCB as a successful host on numerous occasions with the last World Cup being the biggest. He is very experienced and a long-serving West Indies (Cricket) Board Director and we (DCB) think that he should be allowed another term to complete unfinished business, especially the Hostel and Indoor practice facility at LBI,” the DCB head stated.
DCB Vice-President Annand Sanasie said that the West Demerara Cricket Association is also behind Singh because they regard him as the more respected and superior Cricket Administrator of the two candidates.
“I was very impressed with how much respect Chetty got from the West Indies Board members during their recent meeting in Guyana and while he might not have done everything right during his tenure as GCB Head he is far more experienced in the business than his opponent and should be given another term,” Sanasie said.
The DCB urged all of the delegates to think carefully when casting their ballots since the future of Guyana’s cricket could depend on their decision today.
“This is not a time for experimenting. If we mess up as host of the 20/20 World Cup it could cost us (Guyana) our credibility and affect the tourism industry not to mention spoiling Guyana’s chances of hosting future International matches here,” Sanasie opined.
This has been arguably the most publicly debated GCB elections and even with the unofficial polls showing Singh ahead, Panday has put a lot of time, effort and funds into his campaign as was seen when he beat Clyde Butts for the GCA Presidency two years ago, should never be underestimated to orchestrate a crucial last-minute switch of allegiance at crunch-time.

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