… Fudadin carts off $250 000 in prizes
CASH and prizes totalling over $2.5M were distributed at the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTYSC) 19th Annual awards ceremony held at the JC Chandisingh Secondary School last Sunday, with national middle-order batsman Assad Fudadin carting off $250 000 in cash and prizes. While being nominated the RHTYSC Male Cricketer-of-the-Year, Fudadin, who is currently averaging 30.55 from 32 first class matches in which he has accumulated 1 497 runs with a highest score of 93, had 2010 dedicated as his benefit year to which he received a West Indies medallion from King’s Jewellery World valued $40 000.
Female West Indies middle-order batter and 2009 runner-up Junior Sportswoman-of-the-Year Shemaine Campbell was named the club’s Female Cricketer-of-the-Year, for which she received over $150 000 in prizes.
Fudadin was also named the Gizmos and Gadgets first division Batsman and Cricketer-of-the-Year. He received a trophy and a small package while Campbell was named the Metro Female Batter and Cricketer-of-the-Year.
She also received a special prize along with national middle-order batsman Royston Crandon for making their international debuts for the West Indies team in 2009.
Other awardees for the day were Daniel Lewis and Nicholas Cameron (Under-13 bowler and batsman), Jamal Jarvis and Shawn Pereira (Farfan and Mendes Under-15 batsman and bowler), Lloyden Lewis and Dominic Ricky (Bakewell Under-17 bowler and batsman) and Eon Hooper (Pepsi Under-19 bowler and batsman).
Erva Giddings (Metro female bowler), Troy Matheison and Jason Sinclair (Gizmos and Gadgets Under-23 bowler and batsman), Eon Hooper and Terrence Madramootoo (Bakewell second division bowler and batsman) and Ravi Narine (Gizmos and Gadgets first division bowler) were also rewarded by the club.
The most disciplined male and female players were Lenny Sanichar and Nirmala Sewdat respectively, while Lloyden Lewis received a trophy after being nominated the most committed player, with Kumar Madray and Brandon Prashad being named the most improved and promising player respectively.
Pereira, who is presently leading the national Under-15 team in Trinidad and Tobago, was named the club’s fielder-of-the-year and Patrick Lewis the coach-of-the-year while Moonish Singh and Ravin Kissoonlall were the worker and runner-up worker-of-the-year respectively.
Narine also received $20 000 from the club, as part of his prize from his benefit year which was last year and according to the club’s CEO/secretary Hilbert Foster, Fudadin will collect his cash incentive at next year’s ceremony.
National players in brothers Esaun and Royston Crandon along with Delbert Hicks and Fudadin were also rewarded while nine Under-15 cricketers including Madray, Matthew Lachana, Lenny Sinclair, James Anderson, Veeramootoo Lachana, Daniel Lewis, Homchand Renga, Joel Douglas and the lone female Ploffiana Millington received prizes after being nominated by the coaches as promising players for the future.
Prior to the distribution of awards, gifts and prizes, Foster outlined the achievements of the club which, apart from celebrating its 20th year in existence this year, is also un-arguably the most vibrant sports club in Guyana.
Five first class players, 16 junior national players including two captains, 46 for Berbice at all levels, one West Indies limited overs player and three female national players are all products of the club over the past 20 years.
Added to the abovementioned, the club has also won 30 Berbice titles at all levels and two national titles while being named the Guyana Cricket Board’s (GCB) Club-of-the-Year on three different occasions and is presently the national female club champions.
Over 14 cricket academies, 150 television programmes, 19 award ceremonies, six educational summer camps, over 800 feeding programmes, 20 000 students being assisted with educational materials and the printing of 13 magazines and booklets can be added to the portfolio of RHTYSC.
The club has also distributed $40M in clothing and footwear, $35M in educational and hygienic kits, $20M in sports equipment and a further $15M in food supplies to clubs and the less fortunate, while the period January 2009 to March 2010 has been without doubt the most successful period in the history of the club despite the economic situation facing the country.
The club also won the Berbice Under-15, 17, 19, 23 and female titles while the senior team took home the ABS 40 overs-a-side as well as the GCB/Neal and Massy Berbice zone first division title to their Area ‘H’ base which was restored in 1996 at a cost of $15M, having first refurbished the Lower Corentyne Secondary School at a cost of G$4M in 1991.
Several competitions were also hosted by the RHTYSC, including the Busta Champion of Champions, Kool Kidz 20/20 and the Gilgeous Pawn Shop Under-19 tournaments, while at the recent Berbice Cricket Board of Control (BCBC) award ceremony, they carted off six awards which went along with their six out of nine major awards won at the GCB’s award ceremony last year.
The Western Union Junior Ambassador Programme, the first of its kind in Guyana was launched last year with three young cricketers receiving a total of $200 000 worth of items with two of them benefiting from the Basil Butcher Trust Fund (BBTF).
Like his brother and president of both the RHTYSC and the BCB Keith Foster, Hilbert Foster who was also named the National Sports Commission Sports Personality-of-the-Year, became the first individual from a club to ever receive such an award and said that the dream continues as they strive to get better and better each year.