Roy Fredericks Cup set for Blairmont CC on July 21

Jul 07, 2018 Sports

Blazers are the defending Champions.

The Blairmont Centre Cricket Club of West Bank Berbice will be hosting its annual fundraiser, the Roy Fredericks Flood Lights Cup, at the Albion Community Centre on Saturday 21st July 2018. This is the fourth Edition since its inauguration in 2015.
The cricket competition will be a Day/Night affair with some of the leading cricket clubs in Guyana confirming participation at a venue which hosted the first ever ODI in the West Indies in 1977 when West Indies beat Pakistan.
Apart from the T20 competition the other competitions which have been planned are Volleyball and Dominoes.
The day’s activity is scheduled to commence at 09:00hrs and concludes 22:30hrs under lights with the seven teams competing for the supremacy in this year’s Roy Fredericks Cup expected to produce riveting action.
Two times Defending champions, Blairmont Blazer, will have to be on top of their game this year since tough challenges should come from Albion, City side DCC, Rose Hall Youths & Sports Club, Port Mourant, Young Warriors and Upper Corentyne.
Named after the former Berbice, Guyana and West Indies left-handed opener, the Roy Fredericks Cup started at Blairmont Centre Cricket Club and later involved DCC.
The day’s event will provide plenty of entertainment for the spectators including Tassa Drumming, Lighted Bails, Fans Bowl Off, Spectator catching, Cartoon Characters walk around and live Ground commentary by International Radio Commentator Inderjeet Persaud.
The BCCC has named the Main Pavilion at the Blairmont ground after Fredericks who played 59 test scoring 4334 runs at an average of 42.49 with 8 centuries and 26 half centuries.
The great Berbician is remembered for his scintillating 169 at Perth against Australian pacers Dennis Lillie and Jeff Thomson.
In 1983, Fredericks, then the Guyana Manager and his Country’s Sports Minister in the Forbes Burnham PNC Government, came out of retirement and scored 217 against Jamaica at Bourda. This remains the only time in the World that a sitting Minister of Government has scored a First-Class double century.
Since 2015 this tournament has been a tribute to Fredericks, who succumbed to Cancer in the USA at age 57 and is one of the club’s major fundraisers.
The Club is seeking sponsorship and welcomes any contribution toward the success of this event. Proceeds will go towards the maintenance and the development of the Club which has produced two Test players; Fredericks and pacer Brandon Bess who played his lone Test against South Africa in Barbados.
The club’s main project is to build an indoor cricket facility for the club members and non-members to hold practice session during the rainy season.
For more information please make contact with Assistant Secretary Mr. Ameer Rahim on telephone 626-2563. (Sean Devers)

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