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Bissoon Singh re-elected ECCB President
Hopes ECCB 1st division teams can play in GCA competitions
Bissoon Singh and his entire Executive Committee was returned en-bloc to serve for another two-year term when the East Coast Cricket Board held its’ Annual General Meeting last Friday at the Lusignan Community Centre.
Bissoon Singh (centre seated) and his EECB executive shortly they were re-elected en-bloc last Friday.
The two Vice- Presidents are, Samaroo Jailall and Raymond Barton with Judister Rampersaud and Nayatanand Manbodh being Secretary and Assistant Secretary respectively. The Treasurer is Pretipaul Jaigobin, while Mohamed Shamshuddin is the Public Relations Officer.
Manbodh said the re-election of the entire Board is a tremendous endorsement for Singh and his Executive at a time when the Demerara Cricket Board has two factions and the Guyana Cricket Board elections are long overdue.
“East Coast is seemingly tranquil for working with its Constitution. However the delegates are cognisant that geographically, East Coast is the largest area in Demerara with forty four teams participating in the Hand-in-Hand 50-over Competition and the East Coast President’s Trophy,” Manbodh added.
The President told the gathering after his re-election that the Board had compiled a list of the grounds on the East Coast and sent it to the Guyana Cricket Board so that the grounds can be cut for weekend matches. He said that it is a bewildering that the service of the tractor is never available.
East Coast has three (3) First Division Teams and the furor at the Demerara Cricket Board level will now relegate them to playing among themselves.
However, Singh disclosed that the East Coast Board has written to Roger Harper, the President of the Georgetown Cricket Association seeking permission to have the three East Coast First Division teams play along with the Georgetown teams.
“This boring and perilous routine at the upper echelons is stultifying our cricket in Demerara and Guyana and Singh now has the track record to lead in a manner that positively determines what is good and change that which is not beneficial for Guyana’s cricket,” Manbodh concluded. (Sean Devers)
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