GCB honours victorious U-15 team

THE Guyana Cricket Board on Thursday evening honoured the victorious Under-15 team that retained the West Indies Cricket Board title. At a brief cocktail ceremony and reception president of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Drubahadur lauded the work of the unit and congratulated them on producing a title-winning performance.He alluded to the hard work put in by both players and management team and also congratulated his team on pulling off the tournament, despite the weather being a major challenge.

Director of Sport Christopher Jones
Director of Sport Christopher Jones

Secretary of the GCB, Anand Sanasie, told the members present that the current crop of U-15 players represents the future of the game and urged the players to continue to work diligently.
Meanwhile Director of Sport Christopher Jones, while offering his congratulations to the champions Guyana, indicated that all the players can consider themselves champions as they have won the right to represent their country at the prestigious tournament. The sport director told the gathering that the government stands willing and ready to support any organisation that puts the development of sport and athletes first. He went on to disclose his plans for the development of the sector.
“It is my hope that in the near future, we can see several multi-purpose centres being established across the length and breadth of the country, which will cater for several disciplines at the same time and, of course, cricket is way in advance of many of the other disciplines but of course we will take cricket into account.”
Guyana won three of the five matches with the other two abandoned to take the title with 19.5 points ahead of the Windward Islands 18.2 points (3 wins, 1 loss and 1 abandoned match). Barbados finished third with 12.9 points (2 wins, 1 loss and 2 abandoned matches) while the Trinidad and Tobago team finished 4th with 6.8 points (1win, 1 loss and 3 abandoned matches).
Jamaica’s 0.2 point was gained from their 4 losses and 1 abandoned match while the Leeward Islands had 2 losses and 3 abandoned matches. Guyana won back-to-back titles in 1998 and 1999 then picked up their third title in 2014.

 

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