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Over $4M up for grabs in 2025 One Guyana Inter-Region Ten10 Softball Cricket Cup
Kaieteur Sports – Softball players across Guyana is set to be in action in what is considered to be the country’s biggest open softball cricket tournament as plans are moving apace for the 2nd “One Guyana Inter-Region Ten10 Softball Cricket Cup”, which is slated to take place from 2nd to 30th November 2025 at various venues across the regions with both male and female category with over 4 million dollars in cash and prizes will be up for grabs.
Over $4M up for grabs in 2025 One Guyana Inter-Region Ten10 Softball Cricket Cup
The inaugural tournament saw only male players in action, and the winner, Hype Park of Parika in region 3, walked away with $300,000 and a trophy. The winner of this year’s tournament walked away with 1 million dollars and a trophy, the runner-up $250,000 and a trophy. Prizes will be awarded to the MVP, best bowler, best batsman, and man of the final.
In the female category, the winning team will pocket $300,000 and a trophy, the runner-up $150,000 and a trophy, while prizes will be awarded to the MVP, best bowler, best batsman, and player of the final.
In both categories, prizes will be awarded to the player of the match in the semi-finals.
According to the organisers in the regional games, the winning male team will be awarded $100,000 and a trophy, while the female winner is going to be awarded $50,000 and a trophy. while prizes will be given to the runners-up, best batters, best bowlers, and players of the finals.
The winner of each region will then battle in the national playoffs on the 30th of November at a venue to be named.
The tournament bowls off on the 2nd November in region 3 at the Zeeburg Ground, in region 4 at the Strathavon Ground in Cane Grove, Mahaica, and in region 10 at the Speighland Sports Ground. All matches start at 9 am and its ten (10) overs per innings.
The tournament will continue to use supreme balls, and it’s a one-game knockout competition that will use round-arm bowling with extras in place.
It’s the true belief of the organizers that the tournament once again will bring our people together across various villages/communities/regions in unity through sports and strengthen the game of softball cricket locally.
The organisers said that softball cricket is the grassroots of all forms of cricket, and it nurtures our youths to move on in playing all forms of the game at the very highest level, and it also brings families, friends, and communities together.
Coming on board in supporting the event is Basheir and Sons Construction of East Coast Demerara. Director of the company Ms. Bibi Razifa Mohamed said that she is very pleased to be part of supporting the tournament which will be bringing our people together especially in sports such as softball cricket.
She echoed the sentiments that softball cricket is a village sports that see the young and old coming together in playing for one team and it brings the community out.
She went further to say that her company fully support the tournament because it’s a countrywide games and also bring the females into play.
Ms. Thompson of RS sports thank Ms. Mohamed for the support and wishes her company all the best.
Supporting this second edition of the One Guyana Inter-Region Tournament are Khan’s Construction and Transportation Services, KT Fabrication, N. Balgobin and Sons Contracting Service and Electrical Supplies, GMIN Ventures Guyana Inc., Bashir and Sons Construction Inc., and the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports already indicated its support towards the tournament under its One Guyana brand.
Interested teams across the country can register by contacting Brian (Region 2) 651-0358, Sedik (Region 3) 698-6406, Darmin (Region 4) 668-2783 & Fazal 670-8114, Mahesh (Region 5) 668-9993, RS Sports (Region 6) 726-1386, Shavez Hendricks aka Apache (Region 9), Rastaff (Region 10) 658-7354, Ms. Akaze 717-5577 and WhatsApp 726-1386.
Registration for Regions 3, 4, and 10 closes on October 30th. While for the other regions it closes on 7th November.
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