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BCB invest heavily into cricket in the Berbice River Area
– Foster pledges more assistance in the future
BCB Leslie Solomon hands over gears to one of the clubs.
Kaieteur Sports – Berbice Cricket Board President, Hilbert Foster, last weekend reassured the cricket teams in the Berbice Area that the cricket board would continue to invest into the area and make sure that they benefit from the massive development taking place in the county. Foster, who only returned to his position a few weeks after a profound illness stated that the riverain area is very important to the overall development of Berbice Cricket and no stones would be left unturned in the quest of overall development.
The BCB last week hosted two major cricket finals in the area between Wiruni Cricket Club and the SandHills Friends team at the Area H Ground in Rose Hall Town. The two finals were for the Dave West Indian 40 overs and the Sir James France 20/20 tournaments. Both finals attracted large crowds with residents of the area travelling out to the coast land in their numbers to support their respective home teams.
Floyd Benjamin hands over practice net to Wiruni Cricket Club.
Foster met with the leadership of both teams and expressed delight at the huge support that cricket has in the area. Among the areas the BCB President committed to were; hosting of training programmes for youth players along with umpires and scorers in the area. The BCB President handed over a set of the BCB historic coaching manual and youth information booklets to the two teams for them to work with their youths. In the meanwhile arrangement would be put into place for a BCB coaching team to visit the area during the August holidays.
The BCB also handed over a large quantity of cricket gear to the clubs along with scorebooks as efforts continue to assist as much as possible.
The Berbice River Cricket Association also received two boxes of white balls to assist in the preparation of a first division team for the upcoming BCB/Speakers Cup 20/20 tournament. It would be the first time that the riverain area would participate at that level in the 84 years history of the Berbice Board and Foster urged the three teams in the area to work together to select the best possible team for the knockout tournament.
The BCB has already donated a full set of coloured clothing for the team and clubs in the area would shortly receive red balls to play in future tournaments at the second division level. A practice net was also handed over to the Wiruni Cricket Club to assist them to organise better sessions for their members, while the Sand Hills teams received a set of white uniforms for members who do not have any. Foster also committed to hosting the area in inter-zone levels at the under 15, under 17 and under 19 levels once a team is selected to play. A commitment was also made for the area to obtain a bowling machine by the last quarter of this year.
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