WEATHER permitting, the Queenstown-based Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) will bowl off its Centennial Celebrations with a cricket match played in memory of the late Andrew Lyght Sr from 10:00hrs at its home ground today. The home team will oppose the visiting Friends of Former Guyana Cricketers (FFGC) in what is expected to be an exciting matchup as the former match skills with their local counterparts, in what should be an exciting fixture, filled with high energy.
The FFGC team will comprise such players as Derrick Kallicharran, William White, Ray Joseph, Ramcharitar and Tyrone Etwaroo, Eon Grant, Godfrey Edwards and Safraz Ally, along with Victor Benjamin, Nigel Harper and Saheed Mohammed and others.
Former Guyana and West Indies opener Travis Dowlin, Christopher Barnwell, Edward Burnett, Jamaal Hinckson, Alfred Mentore, Totaram Bishun, Lyndon Lyght, Andrew Lyght Jr, Paul Wintz, Derwin Christian, Dennis Squires and Gavin Nedd, will lead DCC’s charge.
Andrew Augustus Lyght could be considered as one of the finest Guyanese right-handed batsmen not to have donned a West Indies Test cap before he died on April 16, 2001 aged 44.
A pugnacious opening batsman, Lyght who was born on July 21, 1956, played in 38 first-class matches, scoring 2 122 runs at an average of 32.00 with six centuries and eight half-centuries in a career that spanned 12 years from 1976 to 1988.
From his early youth he showed  immense promise, often invading the DCC lawn tennis court with the other talented youths, among them Roger Harper, who went on to play for the West Indies. Hence it was no surprise when Lyght gained national colours after dominating in local competitions and trial matches with his attacking stroke play.
Barbadians will remember his thrilling century at the Kensington Oval against the likes of Malcolm Marshall and others in a Shell Shield encounter in 1993 and many pundits rated him as a future West Indies player but this was not to be, as he succumbed to cancer after retiring from the game.
The events will continue tomorrow where the action will be shifted to the Guyana National Stadium, Providence, where the visitors will face a Guyana XI in another exciting thriller.