SIX Guyanese lawyers have been selected to represent the West Indies Lawyers A and B teams for the Lawyers Cricket World Cup.
Charles S. Ramson, a first division Everest player and son of Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Charles R. Ramson S.C. MP, and Rajendra Ramroop, a former Magistrate, have been selected for the West Indies A team (first team). Sanjeev Datadin, captain of the Guyana Lawyers Team, Timothy Jonas, president of the Guyana Bar Association, Dennis Paul, and Lyndon Amsterdam have been selected for the West Indies B team (second team).
The teams were selected after a series of trials in Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, and Barbados.
This will be the third Lawyers Cricket World Cup tournament and will be played in Barbados from August 7 to 21, 2011.
The first Lawyers World Cup was played in India and the second was played in England. The tournament will see teams from Australia, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, England and host territory West Indies.
Sri Lanka and possibly India will be fielding two teams and the tournament will be divided into two zones.
Zone A featuring teams from Australia, Sri Lanka, West Indies (B) and Pakistan while Zone B will comprise of teams from India (A) England, Sri Lanka (B) and West Indies (A).
From Barbados Deputy Speaker of the House of Assembly and MP Kenny Best, Attorney General Adriel Brathwaite, QC and Chairman of the LCWC Ralph Thorne, and Dave Cumberbatch are some of the players expected to make up part of the two squads.
From Trinidad & Tobago Prakash Moosai, Joseph Tam and Vasheist Kikoram all three High Court judges are also expected to be in the lineup.
Venues such as Empire, Wanderers, Carlton, Weymouth, Queen’s Park, St Catherine and Lime (BET) have been chosen to host several of the matches, most of which will be played during the day.
There will be three night games played in the tournament, primarily to accommodate the Pakistani teams who will be celebrating their Ramadan season and do not eat during the days of the religious festival.
The UWI will host the three opening matches involving Australia, Sri Lanka Pakistan and the West indies A teams in addition to the two semi-finals on August 17 and 18.
The final will take place at the Kensington Oval on Saturday, August 20. More details available on the website www.lcwc2011.com
Charles Ramson: “This will be an exciting tournament that will embrace our regional integration and global goodwill. Our boys are keen to compete and our core focus is on winning.”