Devers encourages former players to assist in Berbice cricket

Mar 14, 2018 Sports

Former Berbice off-spinner Sean Devers present pads and gloves to Berbice U-15 batsman Chandra Saffie after his top score for the Nat U-15s at Bourda.

Former National U-19 and Berbice Inter-County off-spinner Sean Devers is encouraging other former Berbice players to contribute to cricket in his adopted County.
Devers, who represented Demerara at youth level and both Demerara and Berbice in senior cricket, on Sunday last made a donation of a pair of pads and gloves to 14-year-old Berbice U-15 batsman Chandra Saffie.
Saffie, who lives in Blairmount on the West Bank of Berbice, is a right-handed batsman and has been selected in the 20-man National U-15 squad preparing for next month’s Regional U-15 tournament in Jamaica.
“I have had the honour to represent Berbice by virtue of playing for Bermine and I wanted to make a contribution to Berbice cricket by donating cricket gear to a young player who had talent and could not afford to buy gear,” said Devers.
“I asked the Berbice U-17 Coach Andre Percival, my former Berbice team mate and Guyana Youth Selector Julian Moore, who I played with at Bermine, to help me find someone. I saw Saffie batting during his top score against Demerara on Sunday and I was told that he fitted my criteria.”
With this new board there is an injection of life in cricket in Berbice with many sponsors coming on board including former West Indies Captain Ramnaresh Sarwan.
Berbice has the most competitions in Guyana and while new President Hilbert Forster is fantastic in getting funding for cricket competitions, there are many young players with plenty of talent but with little means of sustaining their cricket careers financially.
That is an area Devers feels needs urgent attention or else a lot of talent will go to waste.
Devers said that he knew that his former Bermine and Berbice team mate Luke Latiff, who now lives in Trinidad, has plans to help with uniforms and gear for Bermine, while Anil Beharry, a former BCB President who he played with, plans to provide some gear to the Rose Hall Canje players.

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