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GCC hosts Lawyers of T&T for friendly cricket matches

Sep 24, 2010 Sports

The Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) will play hosts to two days of cricket action, starting today, when its ‘A’ team takes on a visiting Trinidad & Tobago Lawyers team comprised of Attorneys.
The following day will see the Trinibago team test skills against its Guyanese counterparts, the Guyana Bar Association (GBA), at the same venue. Both matches are expected to begin at 13:00 hrs
The idea of the Trinidadian Attorneys coming to compete against GCC’s ‘A’ team was the brainchild of Lionel Jaikaran, President of GCC, in a conversation with Neil Mohamed, a Trinidadian Attorney during the Twenty20 World Cup Cricket this year at the Providence Stadium.
Mr. Jaikaran indicated that since international cricket is no longer played at GCC, the club had to come up with innovative ideas to sustain it.
Many changes have since been put into effect by the Executive Committee such as more night cricket matches and renovating of the bar.
It is hoped that signature matches such as this weekend’s will become an annual event.
According to Lennox Sankersingh, an attorney and a member of the visiting team, the inaugural Lawyers Cricket World Cup was held in Hyderbad, India in 2007 where a team represented the West Indies.
This event was again held at Cambridge University in England in 2009 and the next venue is Barbados in 2011.
It is hoped that following the matches, lawyers from Guyana will join the West Indies team for 2011.
Mr. Sankersingh indicated that two former Trinidadian cricketers, Justice Prakash Moosai and attorney Ganesh Mahabir will play for the visiting team.
The Attorney General of Trinidad & Tobago is expected to visit Guyana with the team.  The visitors are looking forward to playing on the hallowed sward of Bourda.
The GBA team held practice matches over the last few days at the Ghandi Youth Organization ground and Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Mr. Charles Ramson, SC, and his son, who is also an attorney, will be exhibiting their cricketing skills for the GBA side.
The Vice President of the Berbice Bar Association, former Director of Public Prosecutions, Denis Hanoman-Singh has undertaken to field some players from the Ancient County.
Essequibo will also have representation and tomorrow’s match will be fully supported by the Guyana Association of Women Lawyers, but sadly not as players.
The President of GCC encourages Trinidadians visiting Guyana for the Duck Curry Competition to come out in support of their countrymen and experience Bourda as “the place where history lives.”
T&T Lawyers team: Justice Prackash Moosai (Captain), Neil A Mohammed, Ganesh Mahabir, Nigel Patrick, Ishwar Maharaj, Lennox Sankersingh, Javed Khan (Vice Captain), Francis Joseph, Caryl Welch, Guy Hannays, Krishna Jaglal, Rishi Triparthi, Naveen Maharaj and Roger Kawalsingh. Head of our cheerleading will be Sushma Gopeesingh.
Meanwhile, the GCC ‘A’ squad will include national player Leon Johnson and Nicholas DeGroot among others.

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