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National U-15 team begin camp in E’bo
To leave on March 26 for T&T tourney
By Sean Devers
The National under-15 cricket squad, which is expected to depart Guyana on March 26 for this year’s Regional U-15 One-Day cricket tournament in Trinidad, commenced a short encampment at the Essequibo Cricket Board Hostel in Anna Regina from last Friday evening.
The Guyana team at the GCB office at Bourda before they left for Essequibo on Friday.
The squad to be managed by former Essequibo left-handed batsman Elroy Stephney and coached by former Berbice left-hander Adrian Amsterdam is expected to return to the city on Wednesday. The team was selected after the Under-15 Inter-County tournament which was won by Berbice.
While a Captain or Vice-Captain has not yet been named by the Guyana Cricket Board, Berbice Skipper Shawn Pereira is tipped to lead the team with Essequibo Captain Ricardo Adams as his deputy.
It is understood that the Squad had to be encamped in Essequibo since the GCB has ‘given up’ the Hostel they rented in Alberttown, Georgetown in anticipation that the Hostel and indoor facility at LBI would have been completed since last year. The East Coast Demerara venue is yet to be officially opened and it is not clear when it will become operational.
GCB President Chetram Singh, who is ill and overseas, had said that the Hostel would have been completed by November 1 last year.
The LBI project, located on the East Coast of Demerara about 15 minutes outside Georgetown, is expected to include a Hostel to accommodate 32 people, a kitchenette, a caretaker quarters, a gym, an indoor practice area equipped with two artificial pitches, lights and a bowling machine. Singh said the estimated cost of the entire project is sixty million Guyana dollars
“We are using our share of the money from the last World Cup to complete the facility at LBI and we are putting in two full length 120 feet pitches in the indoor nets so that the fast bowlers can have a run-up. The indoor nets and lighting will be similar to the one in Trinidad at the National Cricket Centre in Cova but the bowlers’ run-up will be longer,” Singh had explained at a press conference last year.
The GCB head since 1991 informed that the LBI ground is owned by the Guyana Government but said the GCB will also have control of the cricket ground and disclosed that the pitch and ground will be prepared shortly.
“We will have a complete cricket venue with a ground, indoor nets, gym and a Hostel and when completed this should be of tremendous value to the pre-tournament perpetration of our national teams,” Singh opined.
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