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RHTY&SC hosts 60th Annual Basil Butcher Development Trust Fund
The Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club on Saturday last hosted the 6th edition of the Basil Butcher’s Cricket Development Trust Fund.
Four young cricketers drawn from the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, Blairmont Community Centre Cricket Club and Tucber Park Cricket Club received $160,000 worth of cricket gear and educational material from the Trust Fund.
Those receiving were Rameshwar Somwaru of Blairmont, Abdool Jaffar of Tucber Park and Denzil Sinclair and Jason Anderson of the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club.
Cricketers receive cricket gears from Basil Butcher Cricket Development Trust Fund
Secretary/CEO of the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club Hilbert Foster at the presentation stated that the Basil Butcher Cricket Development Trust Fund was established by the former Guyana and West Indies batting star as part of his contribution to the development of the game in the Ancient County.
Cricket, Foster stated had played a major role in the life of Basil Butcher and the veteran of 44 test matches was determined to assist others to fulfill their cricketing ambitions. Over the years, Butcher has invested over a million dollars to assist young players and among those benefitting were national youth players Shawn Pereira, Loyydel Lewis, Arif Chan, Shailendra Shameer, Phaffiana Millington, Romario Shepherd and Shimron Hetmyer.
Foster urged the young players to be the pillars of good morals, discipline and commitment and must always strive for excellence.
Butcher in brief remarks stated that he was highly impressed with the state of cricket in his home County and was more than pleased to make contributions to the development of new and existing talents.
He pledged his commitment to continue the Trust Fund while urging the awardees to pay keen attention to the importance of an educational background. Each of the 2013 awardees received a batting pad, a bat and a collection of educational materials.
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