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Unity Lancaster Sports Club Cricket Academy starts today
The Unity Lancaster Sports Club (ULSC) will hold a three day cricket academy at its club’s venue starting from 9:00am today 4th April 2013.
Club secretary Ronald Goolghar (left) receives the gear from Surendra Nauth (right), while looking on are Sheik Mohammed, Club president Naim Chan, Treasurer R. Dyal among well wishers and participants of the academy.
The academy is being promoted free of cost to about 40 youngsters between the ages of 12 and 16 years of age, in a bid to establish Under-15 and Under-19 cricket teams which will represent the club in the future.
The participants were drawn from the host village, and from schools in neighbouring communities stretching from Strathaven Cane Grove to Golden Grove on the East Coast of Demerara.
The three day event will see the youngsters receiving coaching in various aspects of the game of cricket spearheaded by former West Indies fast bowler Reyon King, former national wicketkeeper Sheik Mohammed and hometown national Under-19 players Lalchand Persaud and Hemraj Gharbarran. Senior local umpire T. Annanjit will lend a hand teaching the rules of the game.
Several high profile academics in various fields of professional work will also spend time with the youngsters teaching them various lifetime tips on health and nutrition, focusing the mind and achieving targets, time management, strategising, field positions, ethics and morality among other subject areas.
Recently Club secretary Ronald Goolghar received a quantity of cricket gear donated to the running of the academy by Surendra Nauth of Nauth’s motor spares of Sheriff Street Georgetown. Sheik Mohammed of Tiger Sports, Club president Naim Chan, Treasurer R. Dyal among well wishers and participants of the academy were present at the presentation which saw just over $100,000 dollars in gear handed over.
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