TODAY is a big day on the Berbice cricket calendar, as it is the day when the two top teams for over the past five years – Albion Community Centre and Rose Hall Town Gizmos and Gadgets (RHTGG) – will meet in the 2014 Berbice Cricket Board/Berbice Bridge Company first division 50-over final in a day/night affair at the Albion Community Centre Ground.

It is the first time ever lights will be used in an official BCB club competition match, making this encounter a historic one in more ways than one.
Defending champions Albion Community Centre, with their star-studded line-up will certainly start as favourites even without Devendra Bishoo who is unavailable due to his West Indies-A team duties and former West Indies batsman Sewnarine Chattergoon who is ineligible to play.
They still boast six players who represented Berbice in the just concluded senior inter-county tournament in out-of-favour West Indies players Narsingh Deonarine and Veerasammy Permaul, national wicketkeeper/batsman Anthony Bramble, batting star Jonathan Foo, Gudakesh Motie and former Guyana Under-19 opener Kandasammy Surujnarine.
They will be supported by this year’s Guyana Under-19 spinners Shiraz Ramcharran and Balchand Baldeo, Berbice Under-19 batsman David Latchaya and two other players with Inter-territorial Under-15 experience Veerapen Permaul and Adrian Sukhwa.
RHTGG, on the other hand, boast a less star-studded team but even without West Indies-A batsman Assad Fudadin, they can be a handful to handle.
Their batting will be spearheaded by the in-form Royston Crandon, former Guyana wicketkeeper batsman Delbert Hicks, Berbice batsman Jason Sinclair, national Under-19 middle order batsman Ashkay Homraj, who blasted a century in the semi-finals recently, and all-rounder Rajiv Ivan.
Backing them up will be former Berbice cricketers Eon Hooper and Shawn Pereira, Guyana Under-17 batsman Brandon Prashad and Vidol Crandon, while their bowling will hinge on off-spinners Royston Crandon, Hooper, Ivan and Troy Mathieson, with support from leg-spinner Shawn Pereira.
The match is expected to start at 14:00hrs today and a representative from the Berbice Bridge Company Inc. is expected to be introduced to both teams before the first ball is bowled. The umpires for this fixture are Imran Moakan and Moses Ramphal with Zaheer Moakan as the standby.