A PLETHORA of local cricket stars, both present and future, will be on show at the Albion Community Centre Cricket Club ground from 15:00hrs today, when the final of the 11th Annual Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club/Guyana Beverage Inc. Busta ‘Champion of Champions’ tournament is held.Old rivals Albion Community Centre and Rose Hall Town Gizmos and Gadgets (RHTGG) would face off in the 40-overs match which for the first time would be played under lights and is expected to be a keen contest.

The Guyana Jaguars quintet, top wicket-taker Veerasammy Permaul, West Indies players Assad Fudadin and Narsingh Deonarine, Anthony Bramble and all-rounder Christopher Barnwell, will all be competing, along with rising star Gudakesh Motie-Kanhai
According to Secretary/CEO of the host club Hilbert Foster, special arrangements are being made to have the pitch and bowler’s run-up properly covered to ensure the present inclement weather does not affect the game which will be broadcast with live ball-by-ball commentary on NCN Radio.
There is no doubt, that the home team would start the contest as slight favourites, since clubs in the Ancient County have found it difficult to defeat them at home, especially with their spin-based bowling attack on a track that is conducive for such.
Never before were Albion able to put their hand on the champions trophy in the 11-year history of the tournament, so definitely they will be looking to go all the way this time around and with Permaul, Deonarine, Bramble, Motie-Kanhai and the hard-hitting Jonathan Foo in their line-up, they will be licking their lips and fancying their chances of doing so for the first time today.
Add the promising Kandasammy Surujnarine, Shiraz Ramcharran, David Latchya and Adrian Sukhwa to that lineup, and who would doubt that Albion will not take the title when the final ball is bowled tonight.

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However, RHTGG are a team that never give up, irrespective of the opposition as they have proven during the years of this tournament which they have won a record nine times, defeating Albion on three occasions, including the inaugural tournament along with the 2013 and 2014 editions.
Definitely, RHTGG would be going all out to make it number 10 today – Port Mourant won the other one – looking to former national Under-19 skipper Shawn Perreira and his deputy Fudadin for such success.
Their lineup also includes Barnwell, a discarded West Indies T20 player. Akshay Homraj, Vidal Crandon, Delbert Hicks and Renwick Batson would all be playing key individual roles for the visitors who are expected to post a challenging total.
Barnwell, along with Fudadin and fellow medium pacers Keon Sinclair and Sherain Murray, is expected to enjoy the conditions as will off-spinners Collis Butts and Troy Mathieson, with Perreira adding variety with his leg-spin.
Today’s winners will receive $100 000 and the beautiful Busta Trophy with the losers collecting half that amount and a trophy. The Player-of-the-final will earn $10 000 and a trophy, even as lucky patrons win attractive gate prizes such as tablets, electric household utensils and food hampers.
In addition, the host club will donate to ailing Guyana Chronicle Senior Sports Reporter Calvin Roberts, 25% of the gate revenue towards his medical expenses.
The umpires are brothers Zaheer and Imran Moakhan with Omadat Samaroo as the standby.