ALWAYS known as an administrative body that strives for excellence, the Berbice Cricket Board, for its ambitious 2012 coaching programme, last Friday received a massive boost from Food for the Poor (Guy) Incorporated of over $300 000 worth of cricket gear. The presentation was done by Executive Director of the Organisation, Leon Davis, to Chairman of the BCB’s Competitions Committee Chairman Carl Moore at the Scots Church Annexe building at Princess Elizabeth Road, New Amsterdam, Berbice.
The BCB received eight boxes of cricket balls and a collection of cricket gear including stumps, batting pads, batting gloves, wicket-keeping pads, gloves and bats.
Public Relations Officer (PRO) and Chairman of the BCB Special Events Committee, Hilbert Foster, praised Food for the Poor and Davis for investing heavily in Berbice cricket and expressed his delight at the relationship between the BCB and Food for the Poor.
According to Foster, the BCB would be placing lots of emphasis on coaching this year and to date has completed five special cricket clinics and a one-day academy in West Berbice.
Among other upcoming coaching programmes are the senior and junior elite training programmes, junior captaincy seminar, fielding clinic and the annual one-week cricket academy. Foster also informed the gathering that next week the BCB would be unveiling a massive coaching programme with a major sponsor in Georgetown.
Senior coach Julian Moore in expressing gratitude to Food for the Poor stated that he and his fellow coaches Winston Smith, Michael Hyles-Franco and Floyd Benjamin’s main effort for this year would be to properly groom each young Berbician cricketer to fulfil his full potential and the cricket gear would assist the coaches to achieve their intended objective.
Davis praised the BCB for its pro-active list of programmes and expressed his satisfaction of the progress of cricket in the Ancient County.
He called on the BCB to maintain its high standard of work and issued a call to all other sporting organisations in Guyana to emulate the BCB as sports was important to national development.