RHTYSC to host Naeem Nasir Memorial second division cricket tournament on Sunday

Oct 07, 2023 Sports

Kaieteur Sports – The Area H Ground on Sunday would become a hive of activities when the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club hosts the annual Naeem Nasir Memorial one day cricket tournament in memory of the founder of Bakewell. Naeem Nasir died on the ninth of October 2012 at the Balwant Singh Hospital after a long illness at the age of fifty two years. He founded the popular bakery, Bakewell and was the Chief Executive Officer until his death. Nasir was well known for his support of sports across the country especially cricket and lawn tennis.

Naeem Nasir

Secretary Hilbert Foster stated that the club is pleased to honour the memory of Nasir as he played a major role in the rise of the RHTYSC from a ordinary cricket club into Guyana most progressive youth and sports organisation with an unmatched list of activities and achievements. Bakewell came on board as the official sponsor of the club’s under17 and second division teams in 2000 and has also played a major supporter role of the club activities over the last quarter century.

The company co-sponsors activities such as the Christmas Village, Charity Programme, Annual Magazine, Summer Camp, Cricket Academy, Award Ceremony and community projects. The RHTYSC Bakewell cricket teams have won close to twenty major titles in Berbice under the sponsorship and has produced over one hundred Guyana and Berbice players such as Assad Fudadin, Royston Crandon, Esuan Crandon, Kevin Sinclair, Kevlon Anderson, Junior Sinclair, Jonathan Rampersaud and Shemaine Campbelle. The team has also successfully completed over one thousand community programmes and projects under the name of the sponsorship.

The Naeem Nasir tournament bowls off at 9:00am sharp and a total of eight teams would clash for the winner’s prize of one hundred thousand dollars and the memorial trophy.

The teams would be Ebini, Wiruni, Rose Hall Town Bakewell, Rose Hall Tigers, Cut and Load, Skeldon, Police and Courtland. The opening round of matches would be five overs per side, while the other rounds would be eight overs and the final would be a ten overs affair.

The Man of the Final would also receive a special award while the Berbice Cricket Board would also use the opportunity to donate balls to the cricket teams in the Berbice River area. Entrance to the venue would be free and fans would be entertained by a popular music set – Family Valves.

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Assad Fudadin, Esuan Crandon, Kevin Sinclair, Naeem Nasir, Royston Crandon

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