A LOOK at the composition of the new executive of the Guyana Cricket Board in the daily newspapers left me to wonder if I was looking at a new television show named ‘Who are these guys’.

Mr. Editor, I have been following the game of cricket for over 50 years and pride myself on being well informed of the game, but the majority of these actors in this “new television reality show” are totally unknown to me and one is left to wonder what Guyana’s cricket has come to.

Names like Berty Gaskin, Joe Solomon, Basil Butcher, Leslie Amsterdam, Chetram Singh, Bish Panday, Norman Mc Lean, Carl Moore and Beni Sankar were all household names in Guyana with outstanding records as administrators.
Can someone please tell me who are Dru Bahadur, Fizul Bacchus, Virendra Chintamani, Rajesh Singh, Raj Singh, Anand Kalladeen, Andy Ramnarine, Lalta Digamber and Ramdeen Kumar. Mr. Editor, forgive me but at first glance I honestly thought that this was an election of the Indian Arrival Committee (IAC). It is simply unbelievable that in a multi-racial society such as Guyana;and where Afro-Guyanese make up about 50% of cricketers, only one Afro-Guyanese could be on the executive body with one mixed.

I would be very grateful if the Guyana Cricket Board could release for every cricket fan in Guyana a profile of every elected official. This profile should include the club they are associated with, the successes of these clubs and the roles the executives played in their successes, the roles and achievements at sub-associations or county levels and their overall records of achievements in cricket administration.
The game of cricket in Guyana is currently at the bottom of the ladder or has gone to rock bottom and it would require remarkable and visionary leadership to change its fortunes, to attract sponsors on board and to inspire those at the lower end of the administrative system.
The Guyana Cricket Board is not a bottom house club cricket where you put people in position just for the sake of doing so. Finally, Mr. Editor,  it is quite funny to note that while the Guyana Cricket Board has a new president, he hardly had anything to say with the secretary dominating. I am left to wonder whether the president would be just a figurehead for the power behind the throne. Surely, our Guyana Cricket Board’s president should be one of the West Indies Cricket Board directors. I wait with an unabated breath.