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DCB U-15 Competition without Upper Demerara
Mar 24, 2013 Sports
Dear Mr. Editor,
Please allow me space in your newspaper for me to write this sports letter. Reading yesterday (Friday) newspaper I see the President of the Demerara Cricket Board Raj Singh indicated that following invitations from the DCB to all Area Associations to prepare and present their squads for the Inter Association U15 competition, only the squads from East Bank Demerara Cricket Association and the West Demerara Cricket Association were received by the original cutoff date March 11.
Upper Demerara Cricket Association were never sent a letter nor invited to take part in the competition so we can submit a team. The release forwarded, stated that after very careful deliberations, the DCB then decided to extend the deadline for the teams’ submission by a further one week until March 18th and this information was subsequently communicated to those delinquent Associations.
The DCB do not count Upper Demerara as part of Demerara so the Cricketers in Upper Demerara (Region 10) are wondering if they have to play in teams in town to make the DCB teams.
The release go on to say It is important to note that players who do not participate in the officially sanctioned cricket of the Area Associations and their respective Boards would not be eligible to be selected to represent the county nor the national team. For this simple reason, the DCB has been reaching out to all and sundry to ensure that the politics does not interfere with the cricket and the youths and their future.
The DCB only Focus on Four parts of Demerara which are, East Bank Demerara, West Demerara, East Coast Demerara and Georgetown, once again there is no place in the DCB tournament for Upper Demerara Cricketers who have a lot of talent and are being left on the sideline.
Sherwin Graham
President of Upper
Demerara Cricket
Umpire and Scorer
Association
Vice President of Upper
Demerara Cricket
Association
Manger of Young stars
Cricket Club
Cricket Organizer
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