Khan is new WICB Corporate Communications Officer

Aug 10, 2010 Sports

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Guyanese Imran Khan has been appointed the new Corporate Communications Officer of the West Indies Cricket Board and will take the lead in managing the WICB’s Corporate Communications and Public Relations.
The 31-year Essequibian will serve as the point of first contact for the media on all matters relating to the WICB and bring on board plenty of experience in cricket media relations.
The hard-working and extremely organized Khan worked in various capacities throughout the Caribbean and the cricketing world. He served as the West Indies Cricket Team Media Relations Officer from 2004 to 2007 before moving on to Stanford 20/20 as Communications and Media Manager and then to West Indies sponsor Digicel as Cricket Media Manager – a position he held until the recent Digicel Series.
“I am honoured to return to the WICB at such a vital juncture of the restructuring of the WICB and West Indies cricket as a whole. As always, I am fully committed to offering dedicated service specifically in the area of improving the relationships the WICB has with the media, the public and all its various constituents,” said Khan.
Barbadian Philip Spooner will continue as the point of first contact for matters relating to the West Indies team.
Khan, who resided in Jamaica while studying, is a University of Guyana and University of the West Indies trained communications specialist who has written extensively on West Indies cricket for the past decade.
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GCC’s Forrester wins ‘Best Batsman’ Award in Sir Garfield Sobers Schools Cricket

Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) second division right-hander Winston Forrester recently won the “Best Batsman” Award at the 24th Annual Sir Garfield Sobers International Schools Cricket Tournament in Barbados last month.
The 17-year-old Forrester represented the Top Level Academy of Guyana in the eighteen-team tournament and helped his team to the semifinals which they lost to Queen’s Park Club Coaching School of Trinidad & Tobago. Dulwich College of England won the tournament.
Forrester scored 410 runs from nine games at an average of 45.56, with a highest score of 133 against Barbados Community College. He also registered fifties against Barbados school Combermere (75) and Australian school Oxley College.
Forrester who also won the “Best Batsman” trophy two years ago in the Georgetown Cricket Association Lifetime Realty Under-15 Tournament found the exposure at this level an excellent opportunity to further develop his cricketing aspirations and is looking forward to moving on to the National Under-19 team next Year.
Forrester said the tournament was hectic with his team having to play five consecutive games and feels his dedication to fitness over the last few years served him well during this tough period.
He credits his success to placing more emphasis to the mental aspect of his game by applying more mental match simulations, visualization and imagery skills towards his game planning strategy and finally recognized that fitness, technical skills and talent alone were not enough. Forester, also is a useful off-spinner, took 3-106 from 27 overs. The St Josephs High School Student will be writing his CSEC Examinations next year and hopes the structuring of the Inter Association and Inter County Under-19 Tournaments are done at convenient times such as weekends and during the Easter Holidays so that it does not affect his studies.
The GCC Under-19 Vice-Captain’s, immediate goals are to perform well in the upcoming GCA Under- 19 Tournament in order to be selected in the Georgetown Team and hopes to take his form into the GCA second Division Tournament where his team has already won all three games played so far in their zone of the 40-over Competition. He then hopes to perform well to make the Demerara and eventually the Guyana Team next year.
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NSC sponsors cycle meet at National Park Saturday

National Cycling Coach, Hassan Mohamed MS has organized a cycle programme for Saturday at the National Park Circuit.
The programme is organized for the young cyclists who are presently involved in the Teach Them Young Coaching Programme which commenced from July 12 and will conclude on September 4, which will conclude (34) years for the programme.
The Events:
12 to 14 yrs Open – 3
Veteran U- 50 yrs – 5 Laps
Veteran O- 50 yrs – 5 Laps
Juveniles – 10 Laps
Upright – 5 Laps
BMX Boys Open – 3 Laps
BMX Boys 12 to 14 yrs – 3 Laps
BMX Boys 9 to 12 yrs – 3 Laps
BMX Boys 6 to 9 yrs – 2 Laps
BMX Girls 6 to 12 yrs – 1 Lap
School Boys & Invitation- (35 Laps)
The programme is sponsored by National Sports Commission. Director of Sport, Mr. Neil Kumar will present the prizes to the winning participants.
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‘Sugar’ Roberts available for national selection

Dwayne ‘Sugar’ Roberts is available for national selection, but is contending that no efforts were seriously made to have him on the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) President’s XI that will play in the upcoming International Series.
Speaking with Kaieteur Sport from up the Cuyuni River, near Venezuela, yesterday, Roberts said that he is available for national selection, but wants the local federation to understand that his job with the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission is priority.
The former national forward stated that he was aware of the practice sessions through the media but could not attend because of his location. He believes that should not disqualify him from the team since he is an asset to any national basketball team.
Roberts, who was one of the MVP candidates in the last mega Super Ward contest, revealed that he wants to represent his country at the highest level. He expressed his dissatisfaction over how a host of former senior nationals had treated the practice sessions.
National Coach, Robert Cadogan had expressed his concern last week over the turn out of all the players, who are based out-of-town. He said that he is prepared to work with what he has and the GABF Technical Director, Abdulla Hamid believes he should.
Those Lindeners with former national experience, who were noticeably absent from the sessions were centre Jason Alonzo, forward Marvin Hartman and guard Steve Neils Jr, who were among the leading contenders for national selection from the Mining Town.

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