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THE Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) will be hosting a special 75th Anniversary dinner and honour ceremony on Saturday, September 20 for all of its Test cricketers and former national senior players.
The special events committee of the BCB and Golden Jubilee Committee chairman Hilbert Foster stated that the anniversary dinner and honour ceremony will be one of the highlights of a month of special celebrations during September 2014.In a release, the BCB said for 2014 it would be organising a series of activities to mark the historic 75th anniversary and some of them have already been completed including Tribute to retired cricketers, Berbice educational award scheme, and establishment of six mini-libraries and donations to several clubs.
The special events committee would like to officially extend an invitation to all living Test players of the Ancient County to be a part of the 75th anniversary and would like to urge them to plan visits to Berbice during the period September 5 – 23, 2014.
The list comprises Rohan Kanhai, Joe Solomon, Basil Butcher, Leonard Baichan, Sew Shivnarine, Alvin Kallicharran, Clayton Lambert and Mahendra Nagamootoo. They would be joined by Berbice-based Sewnarine Chattergoon, Assad Fudadin, Narsingh Deonarine, Brandon Bess, Veerasammy Permaul and Devendra Bishoo. Sadly Roy Fredericks, Ivan Madray and John Trim are all deceased.
The BCB would also like to invite all overseas-based former Guyana senior players to be a part of the celebrations and they include Romain and Tyrone Etwaroo, Milton Pydanna, Fazil Sattaur, Sudesh and Sunil Dhaniram, Leslaine Lambert, Ray Joseph, Kamal Singh, Armanauth Ramcharitar, Derek Kallicharran, Kevin Darlington, Arjune Wandu, Suresh Ganouri, Hemnarine Chattergoon, Vishal Nagamootoo, Randolph Ramnarace Jr, Damodar Dasrath and, Jerry Angus.
Special invitations have also been extended to all former executives of the BCB including Ancel Hazel, Lennox Phillips, Jafarally Asrafalli, Roy Baijnauth, Manohar Pooran, Hemraj Seunarine, Romain Etwaroo, Oscar Ramjeet, Prem Manbodh, Edward Bhagwadin, Vickram Ramnauth, Joseph Sookwah, Mohamed Yusuf, Ramesh Sookhdeo.
All former Test and National senior cricketers along with former executive members of the Berbice Cricket Board can contact the Berbice Cricket Board 75th anniversary chairman on 337-4443, 337-4562 (during working hours) or foster_hilbert@yahoo.com for further information. First vice-president Anil Beharry can also be contacted on 623-6875 or on email abeharry1970@yahoo.com