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Hand in Hand on board as DCB second division club cricket competition resumes
After a two years absence from rendering sponsorship, the Hand in Hand group of Companies have once again acquiesced to the renewal of a previous commitment to support cricket and yesterday afternoon, handed over a cheque to facilitate the successful staging of the 2013 Demerara Cricket Board 40-overs Second Division Club Cricket Competition which gets underway this weekend at grounds countrywide.
DCB President, Raj Singh gratefully accepts the sponsorship cheque from Ms Zaida Joaquin in the presence of Mr. Cox (3rd L), Anand Kalladeen and Ray Persaud (extreme L&R) respectively.
More than one hundred local cricket teams will vie for honours in what is expected to be a highly competitive and action packed tournament. Yesterday afternoon Director and Fire Manager of the Hand in Hand Group of Companies, Howard Cox, joined the principals of the Demerara Cricket Board in the boardroom of his Avenue of the Republic offices including his Human Resource/Admin Manager, Zaida Joaquin, and handed over the requisite sponsorship cheque to the President of the Demerara Cricket Board, Raj Singh.
Several other executives of the DCB were also present at the ceremony including Marketing Manager, Ray Persaud, Treasurer, Anand Kalladeen and Mr. Cox said that his company was pleased to resume the sponsorship deal they have acquiesced to for more than 3 decades. He said that over those years he has observed the tournament as it grew in stature. He then urged the organizers to continue in the same vein even as he wished them well.
Meanwhile, Mr. Singh expressed gratitude to the Hand in Hand executives while acknowledging the input of the company, “It has contributed to the competition which I consider to be the most widely played cricket tournament in the county of Demerara,” said Mr. Singh. He further stated that the tournament has played a major role in producing most of the national cricketers emerging out of the counties.
He said that Hand-in-Hand may very well be the longest standing sponsor of cricket and “The Demerara Cricket Board is very proud to be associated with this responsible corporate citizen.”
Teams from the four area associations will compete for championship honours including those from the East Coast Demerara Cricket Association, West Demerara Cricket Association, Georgetown Cricket Association and East Bank Demerara Cricket Association. They will receive impressive trophies and prize money, while the sponsors will pick up the tab for the balls and umpires’ fees.
There will also be incentives for the best sports journalist covering the event. Further, the finals will be contested under lights at a venue to be determined while the preliminary rounds will be played in the various area associations on a knockout basis.
Earlier, just before that ceremony, Ray Persaud represented the DCB and handed over the prizes to the winners of the just concluded U-15 and U-19 tournaments. Georgetown has won the former tournament while West Demerara has won the latter. Ray Persaud collected the trophy for the U-15 team, while Travis Persaud received the trophy on behalf of the U-19 players. (Michael Benjamin)
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