Patron June Mendes, president Keith Foster, executive committee, staff and members of Guyana’s leading youth and sports club, the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTYSC), would like to express heartfelt congratulations to Royston Crandon on his selection to the West Indies team to play in the upcoming ICC Champions Trophy in South Africa.

Royston’s selection is historic for the club, as it marks the first time a male cricketer of the RHTYSC has been selected on a West Indies squad, even though he is not the first member of the club to do so, as Erva Giddings toured with the West Indies female team to Sri Lanka last year.

This selection is a fulfilment of a career based on national talent, discipline, commitment and an undying love of the game. The management of the club always had high expectations of Royston Crandon after he joined the club in 1985 at the tender age of 12.

Over the years, he has represented us with pride and honour at the Under-15, -17 and -19 as well as second and first division levels with success, while he has also played for Guyana at the Under-15,19 and senior levels with the same degree of success.

He is a product of the club’s investment in youth development and a graduate of our highly successful Annual Cricket Academy and it is with this in mind, that we wish him a productive Champions Trophy tournament with both the bat and ball. We are confident that this would be a start to a long and highly successful career wearing the maroon cap.

Royston’s selection has inspired the management of this dynamic club to work harder to upkeep the very high standard we have set ourselves and to make sure that others like Assad Fudadin follow in his footsteps very shortly.

We would like to share these special moments with our corporate sponsors such as Farfan and Mendes Ltd, DDL Pepsi, GT&T Cellink, Bakewell and Windies Sports Bar, who have all sponsored teams Crandon has played for from the Under-15 to Senior levels. Special congratulations also to Travis Dowlin on his selection on the same squad.