THE Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) yesterday registered its deepest condolences on learning of the death of one of the Board’s former treasurers, Roopnarine Dhanraj who passed away in Queens, New York City last week Sunday.

Dhanraj, who was the younger brother of the stalwart Berbice, Guyana and West Indies cricketer Leonard Baichan, was elected treasurer in 1973 and 1974. He will always be remembered for the role he played alongside the then Berbice Cricket Board president Lennox Phillips, vice-presidents Leslie Amsterdam, J. Maurice Haniff and Ancel Hazel, secretary Victor Omrow and assistant secretary Mortimer George, as the livewire behind the Board’s successful hosting of the Pakistan International Airways Cricket Team in Berbice in 1973 and the hosting of the Tony Greig-led MCC team against a Guyana second eleven team in a two-day match in Berbice in 1974.
These two events are two of the many highlights of the history of Berbice cricket.
Born in 1947, Dhanraj was also a very keen first division cricketer who represented both Bermine and the Mental Hospital before migrating to the United States.
He was cremated last week Thursday in New York. The Board sends its sympathy on his passing to his immediate family and wants to let them know that he had made his mark in the annals of Berbice cricket.