While Bermine Cricket Club (BCC) might be one of the underdogs competing in the inaugural NAMILCO/Bakewell/Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club T20 Champion of Champions tournament set to bowl off tomorrow, they must be taken for granted.
BCC like West Berbice, over the last five years has reached the semi-final stage of numerous first division tournaments but somehow couldn’t go all the way, losing to either Albion or RHT Gizmos & Gadgets.
With one of the youngest teams in Berbice, Bermine is going through a learning curve and is expected to come through it a better team once their players gain more experience.
Leading Bermine is former national Under-19 player Joemal LaFleur. The team would be without the services of Eugene LaFleur, Anthony D’Andrade and Devon Clement who are all overseas fulfilling contracts.
Joemal LaFleur will be supported in the batting by Hakeem Hinds, Trison Bynoe, Keion DeJesus, Damon Vantull, Romario Sheppard and Stephen Latcha. Medium pacer Tremayne Smartt, Mark Jackman and Romario Sheppard are all capable new ball bowlers while the spin department centers around left-armers Gavin Moriah Jnr., Damon Vantull, Troy Mickle, Off-spinners Stephen Latcha and Troy Matheson.
Bermine’s strength is their youth, exuberance and unity while one of their weak areas is a fragile middle order.
Their team comes from Hakeem Hinds, Nial Smith, Joemal LaFleur, Trison Bynoe, Keion DeJesus, Damon Vantull, Stephen Latcha (Vice Captain), Troy Mickle, Tremayne Smartt, Romario Sheppard, Kevin Pelew, Mark Jackman, Troy Matheson and Gavin Moriah Jnr.
Performing duties as Manager is Carl Moore with Julian Moore as Coach.