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Teams lament deplorable conditions at Enterprise ground
No internet at East Coast match venues
The 2016 West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Senior Women’s Super50 involving all six Regional teams for the first time and the West Indies players who won this year t20 Women’s World Cup in India got off to an inauspicious start on Thursday in Guyana.
On a day blessed with glorious sunshine two of the three games were abandoned while the match at Enmore began late due to condition of the ground after overnight rain.
Windwards Coach Clayton Brunette and Skipper Afy Fletcher were disappointed with the facilities at the Enterprise ground.
The matches at Everest in the City and Enterprise on the East Coast of Demerara were called off without a ball being bowled, while there were no internet facilities for the media at the two East Coast venues for a senior Regional cricket tournament.
The Guyana, Windwards and Trinidad & Tobago teams all lamented the deplorable conditions at the Enterprise ground where Guyana played the first two rounds of matches.
There was no running water at Enterprise to flush the toilet while the players had to sit among spectators.
The two Guyanese players who represented the West Indies at the World Cup are both from Berbice and Hilbert Foster, CEO of Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club which produced Shemaine Campbell said he was disappointed that no games were set for Berbice.
A Berbice cricket official informed that the Albion ground, which is equipped with lights, was being used for another event.
Foster said that the Blairmont Community Centre ground, which host First-Class games, is located in the West Bank Berbice and could have been an option since the teams could have arrived on the morning of the game and leave for the Georgetown Hotel at the end of the game incurring no extra cost to the GCB. (Sean Devers)
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