THE ROSE Hall Town Gizmos and Gadgets (RHTGG) first division team last Saturday took the time to honour their teammate and captain Assad Fudadin on his achievement of becoming the club’s first Test player.

The left-handed Fudadin made his Test debut against England at Birmingham last June and scored 28 in first innings with four fours, while he got his first half-century against New Zealand one month later, when the West Indies took on the Black Caps at the Sir Viv Richards Stadium, in Antigua.
The presentation was done after Fudadin led the team to victory in the semifinals of the Berbice Cricket Board-organised Tenelec Inc. 50-overs-a-side semi-final against Young Warriors at their Area ‘H’ ground.
At the presentation ceremony, Secretary/CEO of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club Hilbert Foster told Fudadin the club was very proud of him becoming the 16th Berbician to play Test cricket and disclosed that it was always the aim of the club to produce a Test cricketer since its formation in 1990.
He traced Fudadin’s career since he joined the club in 1996 at the tender age of 11 and urged him to stay disciplined and focused as it was always more difficult to stay at the top than to reach the top and urged him to share his experience with his younger teammates and to be a role model to every youth in Guyana.
National Under-19 captain and Fudadin’s RHTGG vice-captain Shawn Pereira congratulated the West Indies player on behalf of his teammates and wished Fudadin more success in his career and reassured him that all the members of Guyana’s leading youth and sports organisation would continue to support him on and off the cricket field.
Fudadin received a plaque compliment of Mr. Ramesh Sunich of the Trophy Stall, a cap to mark his Test debut while the club also launched a coloured poster that would be placed in every classroom in Berbice.
The poster which was produced by the club will feature Fudadin’s career statistics and the ‘Say No to Drugs and Yes to Education’ message, while the West Indies middle order batsman also received a collection of gifts from his teammates.
In his reply he expressed gratitude to the club for its support over the years while promising to make the club even prouder in the future and to be a sports ambassador for the club, Berbice and Guyana at large.
He also expressed gratitude to all the sponsors of the cricket teams of the club especially Farfan and Mendes Limited, Bakewell, Courts, Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company, Gizmos and Gadgets and Pepsi for investing in his career.