Letter to the Sports Editor...RHTY&SC disapproves of treatment to Rajiv Ivan by BCB

Letter to the Sports Editor…RHTY&SC disapproves of treatment to Rajiv Ivan by BCB

Sep 18, 2014 Sports

Dear Sir,
The Management of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC) would like to express its deep disgust at the sickening treatment of Rajiv Ivan by the Senior Selection Committee of the Berbice Cricket Board.
Mr. Ivan, who represented Guyana two years ago, was left out of the Berbice one-day team for the first two matches and was then belatedly included. To make matters worse, he has now been overlooked for selection on the Berbice four-day Inter-County team.
The RHTY&SC as is well known, has always placed the interest of Berbice cricket above its own and that is why year after year we have worked beyond the call of duty to make sure that the game receives the highest percentage of cricket sponsorship in Guyana and we sometimes look after the interest of Berbice more than we do our own.
The RHTY&SC has never used this to gain selection of its players and never will because we strongly believe that selection should be based on merit. Mr. Ivan’s performance at the Berbice first division level over the past three years has been outstanding; he has a better record than most of those selected.
He stays at home and performs while others leave for greener pastures. Only recently he led the RHT Gizmos and Gadgets to its 10th Busta Cup with a man-of-the-finals performance and was named our runner up Cricketer of the Year.
His non-selection is based on the attitude of several Selectors who seem to have a personal problem with Mr. Ivan. The sad part of all this is that these same Selectors are among the non-performers in Berbice cricket.
The RHTY&SC is also concerned that Jason Sinclair, one of the top performers in Berbice over the past six years had to carry drinks for all four matches in the one day tournament. We stand behind our players and hope that they would be recognized for their outstanding performances. Ivan deserves to be in the Berbice four day team and we hope this injustice would be corrected. In closing, I would like to issue an appeal to all cricket officials in Guyana to serve cricket to the best of their abilities and to look after the interest of all players and not only the players from their club.
Ivan, based on performances deserves a place in the Berbice team and the Management of the RHTY&SC demands that this injustice be corrected. The sad part of this is that we are confident that if the Chairman of the BCB Selectors Mr. D. Somwaru was in the country, this nonsense would have never taken place.
Hilbert Foster
Secretary/CEO
Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club

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