Malteenoes Awards Ceremony Barker is Senior Cricketer of the Year, Scott Junior Cricketer

Dec 23, 2018 News

By Sean Devers

All-Rounder Nkosie Barker copped Awards for Best Batsman, Best Bowler and Senior Cricketer of the year, Jeremiah Scott took the Award for Junior Cricketer of the Year, while Stephon Brown took the Award for Most improved player when the Malteenoes Sports

Best batsman & Bowler of the Year Nkosie Barker collect his Trophy from past President and former National Batsman. (Sean Devers photos)

Club held its Awards Ceremony on Friday night at their clubhouse in Thomas Lands.
Barker, an off-spinning all-rounder and second division Captain, enjoyed an outstanding season with both bat and ball, while 16-year-old Jeremiah Scott, who scored a 42-ball 110 against Diplomats at MSC in the NBS 40-over second division tournament had a good season.
The left-handed Brown followed up his 67 in the Noble House Seafoods two-day second division semi-final at Bourda with 106 in the NBS 40-overs game against GYO.
Past President and former National player Neil Barry congratulated the Executives for reviving the Awards Ceremony after it was last held to celebrate the club’s centenary anniversary in 2002. He provided a brief his history of the club which was formed in 1902 by a Barbadian Tailor, Ferdinand Archer.
Barry lamented that the last MSC player selected to represent Guyana was Steven Sankar in 2003 and hoped that this can be soon corrected. In 1987 half of Guyana’s 14-man U-19 squad to Jamaica, came from MSC.
The 1980s saw the most successful tenure of a club which West Indies players like John Trim, Barrington Browne, Rex Collymore, Colin Stuart and female batter Indomattie Goordial, called home.
Vice-President and former Guyana youth player Shawn Holder told the gathering which included past President Edward Richmond and GCA’s President and ex Windies off-spinner Roger Harper, that this event could not have been possible without the players who performed reasonably well throughout the season.

Junior cricketer of the year was presented Wayne Bollers who collected the Trophy from national cricketer Steven Jacobs on behalf of Jeremiah Scott.

MSC President Winston Semple said the highlight of the year was the infrastructural work done, adding work on the all-weather practice facility is in process, while informing that an Office Block containing seven offices, is on cards.
“This project will provide jobs for the members and allow the young players a place to do their studies,” Semple informed.
Past President Claude Raphael, who was instrumental in forming the youth section in 1984 and was at the helm when the Malteenoes Cricket Academy (the first in the Caribbean) was launched in 1992, also spoke at the Ceremony.
Raphael commended the Executives for moving their Club forward and bringing back the Awards Ceremony which has not been held for 18 years. Resurrecting the Cricket Academy was also mentioned in what was a successful year for the club which has been in existence for 116 years.
“The players must give their best efforts at all times and team work is the name of the game for the players and Administers who have unenviable task of maintaining the facility sometimes without the financial support required,” said Raphael who congratulated all who collected Awards.
Special Awards of appreciation were given to Lennox Cush, Theresa Pemberton, Roger Phillips, Morlan Fitzalbert, Yadiam Rajkumar, Alwyn Zala, Allison Butters-Grant, Sherwood Lowe, Chetram Singh, Ursula Spencer, Troy Lewis, while NBS, 4-R Bearings, Trophy Stall and Mike’s Pharmacy were also awarded for their contribution to Malteenoes for the year 2018.