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Essequibo played Jones Cup Final in 1980

Dec 10, 2013 Sports

 

 

While indeed the Essequibo cricket teams have not achieved significant success on the field in the history of Inter County tournaments, I feel compelled however to correct Mr. Sean Dever’s historical error in his article “Matches on today at Enmore and Everest’ written in the Kaieteur newspaper dated 2013-12-05.
His submission erroneously stated that Essequibo have never reached an Inter County final when in fact Essequibo played Berbice in the Senior four-day Jones Cup final in 1980 at the Hampton Court Ground, Essequibo.
Berbice won the match by nine wickets inside three days. Essequibo’s fast bowler Elbert Stephens took six wickets including 5-56 in the first innings while Romain Etwaroo of Berbice made the top score in the match of 70.
Some of Essequibo’s stalwarts who played in the game included the late Courtney Gonsalves, Alfred Maycock, Beni Sankar, Lennox Alves, Jeff Jones and the late Berchmore Reid.
Such treasured history still inspires the young players from Essequibo even though it is miniscule when compared to the outstanding successes of both Demerara and Berbice.

 

 

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