Berbice Cricket Board receives cricket uniforms and balls for Secondary Schools from Lochan Samkarran

Aug 12, 2022 Sports

The pro-active Berbice Cricket Board under the leadership of its President Hilbert Foster on Tuesday last received a massive donation of cricket balls and cricket uniforms for secondary schools as part of its soon to be launched schools programme. The items were donated by overseas based Berbician Lochan Samkarran after a discussion with Foster.

BCB President Hilbert Foster and some junior cricketers pose with the cricket uniforms and cricket balls.

Foster stated that Samkarran, who is a very successful businessman in the United States of America, was very pleased with the current development of Berbice cricket and wanted to play a major role. After the duo had an intense discussion, it was decided that assistance would be provided to all the twenty three schools in Region Five and Six.

Each school would collect fifteen pairs of white school uniforms and two boxes of cricket balls. Additionally, the schools are also expected to also benefit from some cricket gears including bats, batting gloves among others. Among the schools to benefit would be Tagore Secondary, Line Path Secondary, Central Corentyne Secondary, Lower Corentyne Secondary, J.C Chandisingh, Canje Secondary, New Amsterdam Secondary, Berbice High School, Rosignol Secondary and Bush Lot Secondary.

Foster, stated that the gear and uniform distribution forms part of a comprehensive programme for all schools with a countywide coaching programme to be launched soon. The BCB would also be unveiling another coaching project for over one hundred primary schools in the county within the next two months, while plans are been finalised for the hosting of a yearlong Kiddies Cricket Academy for one hundred kids between the ages of eight to eleven years. The Kiddies Academy would involve weekly training and coaching of the most promising kids over a twelve months basis.

The BCB is also working to get sponsorship for the temporary employment of a minimum of twenty part time coaches across the four sub associations to work with the kids and primary school students. Foster expressed confidence that a deal would be cemented in the next few weeks for the coaches to start working in what he views as the most ambitious cricket development programme in Guyana.

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