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BCB 80th Anniversary Celebration Deonarine, Campbelle and Kanhai to be honoured as Berbice greatest cricketers
“We strongly believe in honouring our heroes and we want to do so while they are alive. Berbice cricket has been successful over the last eighty years due to the outstanding contributions and performances of countless individuals. Honouring them is just the Berbice Cricket Board’s way of saying thank you for your services and for putting the Ancient County on the world cricketing map”.
Rohan Kanhai
Shemaine Campbelle
Narsingh Deonarine
Those were the words of BCB Public Relations Officer Simon Naidu as he unveiled the Board’s plans to honour several outstanding Berbicians as part of its 80th Anniversary celebrations. West Indies Players Narsingh Deonarine, Shemaine Campbelle and the Legendary Rohan Kanhai would be honoured as Berbice’s greatest cricketers at the junior, female and senior levels, respectively.
Narsingh Deonarine represented Albion, Berbice, Guyana and the West Indies at the Under-15 and Under-19 levels with great success while serving as Captain as well. Campbelle is the only Guyanese female cricketer to have centuries at the club, county, regional and international levels and has represented the West Indies at the T20 and ODI levels for close to a decade.
Rohan Babulall Kanhai was widely regarded as Berbice’s greatest cricketer and holds the record for the most Test runs, Test appearances and most Test centuries for Berbicians. Kanhai also captained the West Indies winning the 1975 World Cup team.
A portrait of the three players would be unveiled in the BCB Office on the Dr. Tulsi Dyal Singh Wall of Fame. Former outstanding players Leslaine Lambert, Clayton Lambert, Mahendra Nagamootoo, Narsingh Deonarine and Derick Kallicharran would also be inducted into the Berbice Hall of Fame while outstanding Administrators Keith Foster, Anil Beharry, Malcolm Peters, Manohar Pooran and Carl Moore would also be inducted into the BCB Hall of Fame for Administrators.
The contribution of former players Sudesh Dhaniram, Orvin Mangru, Deonarine Persaud, Andre Percival and Zaheer Moakan would be recognised under the Tribute to Retired Cricketers programme while Angela Haniff, Joseph Simon, Dennis D’Andrade and Esuan Crandon would each receive the BCB highest individual award, The Tribute to Hero Award of Excellence.
Foster stated that every year, the Board under his leadership would strive to honour outstanding heroes. He noted that clubs in Berbice were suffering from the lack of visionary and dedicated officials, pointing out that it was important for positive role models and cricket executives to be honoured.
The awards have been made possible through sponsorship from Metro Office Supplies, Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club MS, Spready’s Snackette, Republic Bank (Guy) Ltd, J’s Printery and Sentinel Security.
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