The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) has appointed Monte Alan Lynch as its Territorial Developmental Officer with effect from April 18, 2013.
Monte Lynch
The Guyanese, who migrated to England as a teenager, is a former English cricketer who played three One Day Internationals for England against the West Indies in 1988. He was a hard-hitting batsman, an occasional off-spin bowler and a fine slip fielder.
Lynch played one season for Guyana in the 1982-83 Shell Shield 4-day competition. He also played for the West Indies on the rebel tour of South Africa the following season.
He also played in the County Championship for Surrey between 1977 and 1994 and Gloucestershire from 1995 to 1998.
Since retiring from first class cricket, he continued to play club cricket in Surrey and started his own sports equipment company, MAL Skills. He was also the cricket coach at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford and Southern Rocks cricket team in Zimbabwe. Lynch, a level three English trained coach, also worked in Argentina and Suriname.
Lynch’s job description includes establishment of a Secondary School Cricket Programme, supervising the WICB/GCB Digicel grass root and Scotia Bank kiddies cricket, revamping of the GCB Coaching and Cricket Development programmes.