Girls excited and eager to be here – Rampersad-Gocool

Aug 11, 2010 Sports

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Manager of the visiting Trinidad & Tobago Primary Schools Windball Cricket team who’re here on a five-test series told Kaieteur Sport that the girls are extremely excited to be here to engage the Guyanese and they are looking forward to a very competitive tour.
Usha Rampersad-Gocool disclosed that even though their preparation was hampered a lot by the rainy conditions back home, she still expects the girls to put up a stern fight against the locals who’re the defending champions in the Annual Series between the two countries.

“The girls are very excited to be here and they are looking forward to a keenly contested series, but most of all cricket should be the winner,” Rampersad-Gocool stated.
The team who came under the umbrella of the Ministry of Education and official sponsor the Trinidad & Tobago Cricket Board were slated to open the tour last evening with a game against the host at the National Gymnasium.
The two teams are made up of players who participated in their respective nationwide Primary Schools Championship with the best chosen to represent their countries.
Rampersad-Gocool when questioned about the state of the game among females in the Twin Island Republic disclosed that it was developing rapidly with the support of both the Ministry and the TTCB.
“Some of the girls are actually looking to make the game a career so they are taking each opportunity to play seriously.”
T&T have two players in Alexis Ali and Madhuru Paltoo returning from the previous tour.
The teams will be back in action today at the National Park, while the series continue on Thursday at Wales Community Centre.
On Friday, they are scheduled to appear at Albion, while they return to Georgetown for a match at the National Cultural Centre Tarmac.
Ministry of Culture, Youth & Sport has been a major contributor to the tour.

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Young Berbicians told of importance of discipline at launching of BCB Academy

“Discipline is the key to success and in the future every youth aiming to play cricket for the ancient county must be disciplined no matter how talented they would be.” Those were the words of advice from Treasurer of the Berbice Cricket Board, Anil Beharry, who shared with fifty five young cricketers at the official launching ceremony of the 2nd Annual BCB/Scotia Bank Cricket Academy at the Albion Sports Complex on Monday.
The long serving and very active cricket administrator told his attentive audience that the BCB was investing heavily in youths because they are the future and called on them to accept the challenge to develop themselves so that they can be proper sports ambassadors of the county, on and off the field and to be role models to their peers.
Beharry advised the youths to listen carefully to the coaches, to ask questions and to do follow up work at home to make sure that they become students of the game.
Noting that Berbice Cricket is at the highest level due to the work of the BCB, he challenged the members of the academy to strive to become the next cricketing heroes of the county and to continue the proud tradition of Rohan Kanhai, Basil Butcher, Alvin Kallicharran and Narsingh Deonarine among many others.
He added that Guyana’s most recent superstar in the Caribbean T20Cup winning team, Jonathan Foo is a product of the first academy. He also extended special thanks to the management and staff of the Bank of Nova Scotia for their sponsorship of the academy and assured them that cricket in Berbice would continue to be the shining light in Guyana.
Beharry briefly spoke about the structure of cricket and cricket boards in Guyana and emphasised that all successful organisations are the ones with a strong functional structure.
Head coach, Winston Smith, in giving a preview of the academy disclosed that the players would be coached in the basics of batting, bowling, fielding, wicketkeeping and the importance of physical fitness.
The BCB has also arranged special lecturers for the academy on topics of importance to their personal development.
The academy would conclude on the 14th of August and members of the junior selection committee headed by Leslie Soloman would also be in attendance to observe the players in training. The committee at the end of the academy would release an elite list of 40 players to be part of the BCB junior elite training programme that would be launched on Sunday August 29 at the Albion Sports Complex.
Chairman of the BCB Special Events Committee, Hilbert Foster, disclosed that the junior elite training programme would involve the players training as a unit under three coaches twice a week until February, 2011in preparation for the 2011 GCB inter county youth tournaments.

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