Latest update March 29th, 2025 5:38 AM
Malteenoes Corporate Eight-a-Side cricket set for tomorrow
By Sean Devers
All roads lead to the Malteenoes Sports Club ground in Thomas Lands tomorrow
Malteenoes Sports Club, venue for tomorrow’s fund raising Corporate Cricket contest.
from 09:00hrs for what is anticipated a pulsating Corporate Eight-a-side cricket tournament and proceeds from this event will go towards the ongoing renovation work at the club.
A day of fun and frolic for the entire family is expected while a well-stocked Bar and take-away lunches and Fish & Chips will be on sale.
Defending Champions Qualfon, Upper Level Barbers, Lawyers, Media, Watsila, Police Offers, National Drainage & Irrigation Athority (NDIA) and DDL Renegades will battle for supremacy and bragging rights on the cricket field.
The fund raising event is being held in support of renovation projects by the club which was formed in 1902 by a Barbadian Taylor named Ferdinand Archer and produced West Indies fast bowlers Colin Stuart, who played six Tests and five ODIs and Barrington Browne, who played four ODIs in India in 1994. Indomattie Goordial also played Test and ODIs for the West Indies female team.
John Trim, Charlie Jones, Glendon Gibbs, Rex Collimore, Clayton Lambert, Ian and Bishop were also West Indians players, who represented Malteenoes in club cricket.
The club was initially located at Eve Leary on Camp Street, in Georgetown but with the militarisation of Eve Leary during the Second World War, the ground was absorbed into the military zone and Malteenoes relocated to its present location, with freehold ownership of its land.
Malteenoes fulfilled its intended role during those formative years by providing young men and women the opportunity to participate in outdoor activities such as football, cricket and field hockey and indoor activities such as badminton, table tennis, and dominoes.
Since the 1980s Malteenoes has been playing a leading role in the development of youth cricket. The club started a youth programme in 1984 under former President Claude Rapheal, which has produced a steady stream of competitive young cricketers.
In 1987 half of the 14-man Guyana U-19 squad which toured Jamaica for that year’s Regional U-19 cricket year, were Malteenoes players, a record which still exists. Those players were Barrington Browne, Colwin Cort, Nigel Greaves, Glen Robinson, Shawn Holder, Sean Devers and the late Neezam Hafeez.
The programme was formalised into the Malteenoes Cricket Academy in July 1993 and the club’s Motto ‘our youth, our future’ still rings true today.
Malteenoes has been very influential both on and off field in the development of sports in Guyana, especially cricket and more recently Table Tennis. Despite many challenges the club remains firmly committed to this objective, which it considers to be an important means of educating young people and channeling their energies into meaningful activity.
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