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Inverhaugh CC Masters face W/Dem today at Everest

Jul 31, 2012 Sports

The privately owned Inverhaugh Cricket Club based in Inverhaugh, Ontario, Canada has been blessed with brilliant sunshine ever since their tour to Guyana commenced last Friday, but the North American unit has not enjoyed the same blessings on the field losing both of their matches against an Everest Masters side last Saturday and a strong young Berbice XI at Albion on Sunday.
Inverhaugh play its third match against a West Demerara Masters team at Everest today from 11:00hrs. This match was shifted from the Wales Community Center ground due to a sodden outfield there.
The club was formed by Bart Singh & Associates in 1995 and plays all their games on turf wickets within the grounds owned by Jan & Bart Singh. Almost half of their players hail from various parts of Guyana.
Former Windies Test player, Sew Shivnarine, now aged 60, has made useful contributions in both matches for the touring team. Most of the members are Canada-based, but Inverhaugh have several overseas members that join the club on its tours.
The club only plays friendly matches during the Canadian summer while tours are regularly undertaken in the winter months to various islands such as: Grenada, St. Maarten, St.Lucia, Jamaica, Cayman Islands & Dominica.
Following both of the matches played over the weekend in Guyana the touring party made a presentation of cricket equipment to the youth programme of both the Everest Cricket Club and the Albion Cricket Clubs.
This is the club’s first tour to Guyana and only the second during summer with the previous one being to England in 1997.
Both the captain, Bart Singh & the Manager, Fazal Karim hail from Herstelling and are looking forward to this tour. The tour party also includes members originally from Trinidad, Canada, England, India and Scotland.
The full tour party including wives & supporters number 30. Most members of the group were born in Guyana and the Inverhaugh team read: Bart Singh (captain), Roy Singh, John Metcalf, Vince Correia, Nigel Cockwell, Fazal Karim, Ron Reece, Kumar Dindial, Jai Yudishthu, Balkaran Maharaj, Keron Jagdeo, Premo Jagdeo, Saheed Mohamed and Jaysheel Bhavsar.
Yesterday the team had a rest day and visited the Arrowpoint/ Santa Mission area while tomorrow some of the members will visit the world renowned Kaieteur Falls/ Orinduik Falls.
The West Demerara team will be selected from:
Sudesh Persaud, Rishi Digamber(Captain), Sham Persaud, Thakur, Terry Daniels, Abdul Shameer Samad, Anand Sanasie, Vibert Johnson, Dhanpaul, Shawn McKay, Navindra Persaud, Hassan Inshan, Orvil Black, Balram Aaron, Jagdesh Balgobin,Robin Persaud, Azeez Khan, Sunil Ramdat. The Manager is Robin Khan and Coach/player is Harry Deokinandan.
Inverhaugh will play their final match against an East Bank Masters team at Everest on Thursday.
The East Bank team will comprise of the following players:
Deonarine Debidial, Kenneth Debidial, Rohan Sarjoo, Johnny Azeez, Raymond Jaisingh,
Ronald Jaisingh, Daniel Sarjoo, Rakesh Gangaram, Victor Henry, Jai Sankar & Mukesh Dass.
The team will then be entertained at a farewell cocktail reception at the Grand Coastal Inn on Thursday evening hosted by Raj Singh Insurance Brokers.

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