Latest update November 15th, 2024 1:00 AM
BCB donates cricket gear to clubs, PMSS, Clayton Lambert donates nine boxes of cricket balls to BCB
BCB/ Cricket Kindness Gears Project
The Berbice Cricket Board continues to assist cricket clubs and schools across Berbice with cricket gear under their Cricket Kindness/ Bat for a Chance project. The gear form part of a massive donation from Cricket Kindness headed by United Kingdom based Tamara J. Lowe and Will Gafney of Bat for a Chance, also based in the U.K.
Representatives of the clubs and school pose with Courtney Walsh.
The Port Mourant Secondary School along with the Tucber Park CC, Edinburgh CC and the Rainbow Generation CC all received a bag of cricket gear including bats, batting pads, batting gloves, helmets, thigh pad and fore-arm guards.
BCB President Hilbert Foster indicated that the donation of the gear represents the final set of gear to be shared out under the project with the two overseas NGO. Foster disclosed that the BCB has to date donated gear, uniforms and caps to over one hundred youth players along with dozens of Secondary schools, Primary schools and cricket clubs.
Clayton Lambert
Among the schools and clubs benefitting under the massive project are Line Path Secondary, Lower Corentyne Secondary, Vryman Erven Secondary, Fort Wellington Secondary, No. 72 Primary, Crabwood Creek Primary, Rose Hall Town Primary, All Saints Primary, Cumberland Primary, Rosignol Primary, No 8 Primary, Rose Hall Canje CC, Mt. Sinai CC, Cotton Tree CC, Radha Krishna Foundation and Skeldon CC.
The BCB President urged the different clubs and the school to take care of the gear, special mention was made of the Port Mourant Secondary School which over the years has produced several outstanding players like Devendra Bishoo, Gudakesh Motie, Eon Hooper, Rampertab Ramnauth, Hemnarine Chattergoon and Matthew Pottaya. The school which enjoys the services of two level one coaches also has a very active cricket programme for its female students. The BCB President Hilbert Foster expressed gratitude to Tamara J. Lowe, Will Gafney, Minister Charles Rmason, Mr. Carl Griffith of Laparkan and Mr. Roland Butcher for their support in making the donation possible.
Meanwhile, former West Indies and National opening batsman Clayton Lambert has donated nine boxes of cricket balls to the BCB for distribution to clubs with junior sections. The balls worth over $100,000 would be shared out shortly to the clubs as the board continues to reach out to their members. Lambert, a former Berbice captain, in 2021 donated over $1.5 million worth of cricket gear to the BCB under the Clayton Lambert Cricket Development Fund.
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