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FFGC’s Andrew Lyght memorial game set for DCC on July 14

Mar 29, 2012 Sports

 

 

The Friends of Former Guyana Cricketers (FFGC) headed by President Derrick Kallicharran has organized a memorial match for former Guyana and West Indies ‘B’ team opener Andrew Lyght at the DCC ground on July 12.
Secretary of FFGC former Guyana batsman Tyrone Etwaroo said a large FFGC contingent including 15 players from the Lyght era are scheduled to arrive in Guyana from their USA base in Queens, New York on July 13.
“We have a rather large group of approximately 50 people that includes our families and friends. We should have at least 15 players – all from the Andrew Lyght era- and the match is set for Lyght’s home club in Guyana where he entertained hundreds of fans with his attacking batting at the first division level,” Etwaroo informed.
Plans are in place of for two more games to be played during the Guyana tour with a match being scheduled for Everest in the City and another in Berbice.
Lyght was a pugnacious right-hander who scored six tons and eight fifties in a First-Class career which spanned between 1976 and 1988.
Lyght, the only Guyanese to have scored a First-Class century in Barbados never to play Test cricket, played 38 First Class matches at a time when Regional four-day cricket was of a very high standard and was unfortunate to be vying for a West Indies opening spot while openers Gordon Greenidge and Desmond Haynes were automatic picks in the regional side.
Lyght died in 2001 at age 44 after a lengthy illness although he represented DCC at the First-Division level even while he was sick. His son Andrew Lyght Jnr represented Demerara at the senior level as a swash-buckling opener and plays domestic cricket in both Guyana and Trinidad.

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