– Sueria Manufacturing on board.

PROMISING young cricketers at the Under-19 level who are attending Secondary Schools and Technical Institutes across Berbice would be able to showcase their cricketing skills, as the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) would be organising an Inter-Secondary School Under-19 Tournament.
The Berbice Cricket Board with the support of Sueria Manufacturing CEO, Frank Sanichara, would be hosting the tournament after a long absence of school cricket organised by the BCB.

Newly-elected President Hilbert Foster was overjoyed at securing the sponsorship from the Berbice-born Sanichara and hailed the tournament as a red-letter day for Berbice Cricket. The main objectives of the BCB in 2018 would be to make sure that all youths are given all the opportunities to fulfill their potentials, to play cricket at all levels and to rekindle the love of the game among students, he said.
The tournament would be officially launched in mid-March and is expected to bowl off in April. Schools are encouraged to get their teams ready for the tournament and the cutoff Date of Birth is September1, 1999. Also, players must be attending the school that they will represent and must have an 85% attendance rate.

The Region Six Schools listed to be involved in the tournament are : Line Path, Skeldon High, Tagore Memorial, Central Corentyne, Black Bush Polder, Manchester High, Winifred Gaskin Secondary, Corentyne Comprehensive, Port Mourant Secondary, J.C. Chandisingh Secondary, Lower Corentyne Secondary, Canje Secondary, Berbice High School, Vryman’s Erven Secondary, New Amsterdam Secondary, Berbice Educational Institute, Tutorial Academy, New Amsterdam Technical Institute and Upper Corentyne Technical Institute.
Meanwhile the Region Five Schools would be Rosignol Secondary, No. 8 Secondary, Fort Wellington Secondary, Woodley Park Secondary, Bush Lot Secondary, Belladrum Secondary, Mahaicony Secondary, Bygeval Secondary and Mahaicony Technical Institute.

The matches would be 30-Overs per side and the Cricket Board would delegate coaches and Berbice selectors to matches with the main aim of spotting talents for coaching sessions.

Meanwhile, the participating schools are encouraged to host internal practice sessions with the objective of selecting the best- available 14 cricketers to play in the tournament. Each of the teams would also be required to walk along with a manager or coach.
The Berbice Cricket Board in 2018 also intends to host a Cricket Tournament for Primary Schools. This fixture would be played using either softball or tapeball.
Schools are encouraged to contact or call President Hilbert Foster on Telephone Number 337-4562; Vice President Albert Smith on 610-3371 or Secretary Rabindranauth (Robby) Saywack on 232- 0255 or 660-0049 for more information.