THE Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) and Everest Cricket Club (ECC) launched the inaugural Speakers T20 Club Championship on Friday, March 19 2021.
Friday’s launch in the GCB boardroom featured the 20 participating clubs, along with the main sponsors, in a collaborative move involving GCB, Everest Cricket Club and the Speaker of the National Assembly.
Speaking on behalf of the sponsors GTT, Orson Ferguson, Chief Marketing Officer gave insight into the importance of his entity’s contribution to the development of youths, more so, of those in sports, making this a worthy contribution.
Troy Peters, Communications Manager of Banks DIH, further stated his company, a long-time sponsor of sports locally, held a special place for cricket. He said the T20 format being one of the more exciting formats of them all, warranted much support.

Speaking on behalf of Digital Media management company, Technify, Latoya Garraway shared with the audience, briefly, the scope of their responsibility for the tournament. Managing the online presence of the tournament meant live scores and streaming of competitions. Sponsorship and teams’ information and much more are available at Cricket.gy.
Naim Khan of Eniath Printers and Tony Subraj of George Subraj Foundation NY, both attending virtually, and Tropical Delight’s Brand manager, Safie Mohamed shared the sentiments of other sponsors in being equally elated to be a part of this venture, giving them an opportunity to contribute to the development and promotion of cricket in Guyana.
MD Assuria, Trophy Stall, Caribbean Education Publisher, among others, have also contributed to the the tournament. Meanwhile, GCB secretary Anand Sanasie noted that the competition had garnered initial support back in November of 2020.

Sanasie thanked the teams for taking the necessary steps to ensure their participation in the tournament and posited that he was looking forward to an exciting, but safe championship, assuring that the COVID-19 guidelines will be upheld, as with past games held by the Guyana Cricket Board.
Meanwhile, Speaker of the National Assembly, Manzoor Nadir, during his remarks, praised the sponsors along with participating clubs.
Mr Nadir said he was overly confident that the tournament would exceed the expected competitive nature and be promoted in the biggest of ways, given the quality of media personnel and the involvement of Techlify.
Among the participating 20 clubs: From Berbice, Albion Community Centre Cricket Club (Albion), Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club MS (RHTYSC MS), Tucber Park Cricket Club and West Berbice; from East Coast Demerara, Lusignan Cricket Club and Bel-Air RUBiS-EC.

From the Georgetown district – University of Guyana Trojans Cricket Team, Everest Cricket Club, Police Sports Club, Malteenoes Sports Club, Gandhi Youth Organisation Sports Club (Regal), Demerara Cricket Club and Georgetown Cricket Clubs. West Demerara, Rising Stars Cricket Club, Canal No. 2 Sports Club, New Wales Superstars, McGill SuperStars Sports Club, Belle Vue Sports Club, Cornelia Ida Cricket Club. Essequibo is represented by Bacchus Sports.
Albion Community Centre Cricket Club (Albion) and Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club MS (RHTYSC MS) will field players with national experience at both the senior and junior levels.
Albion will feature Devendra Bishoo, Veerasammy Permaul, Gudakesh Motie, Anthony Bramble, Jonathan Foo, Shimron Hetmyer among other talented players. RHTYSC MS will field players such as Clinton Pestano, Kevlon Anderson and Kevin Sinclair who recently made his debut for West Indies.

In Demerara, there are some teams with fewer top performers who may rely more on game strategy and tactics to win the tournament. These include but are not limited to Lusignan, Belle Vue, Rising Stars, New Wales Super Stars and the like. Cornelia Ida Sports Club (CI). CI will be led by national player Akshaya Peersaud and will include Ritche Looknauth, while McGill Super Stars Sports Club will be skippered by Travis Persaud and will include players such as Ronaldo Renee, Kheshram Seyhodan and Andre Seepersaud.
Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) will be led by Devon Lord and will include Leon Johnson, Robin Bacchus, Ronaldo Ali Mohamed. The Evererst Cricket Club will field names like Chandrapaul Hemraj, Rajendra Chandrika, Bhaskar Yadram, Tagenarine Chanderpaul Amir Khan and youth player Matthew Nandu.
The Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) will have Steven Jacobs, Shemroy Barrington, Shaquille Williams, and Kellon Carmichael turning out for them

Players such as Christopher Barnwell, Trevon Griffith, Tevin Imlach, Joshua Persaud, raymon Perez Steven Sankar Sachin Singh, Qumar Torrington and Raj Nannan will appear for the Demerara Cricket Club
The championship presents teams with the opportunity to vie for both of the G$1M worth prizes. That is, in attaining the championship title and awards as the Most Valuable Player of the tournament.
However, apart from those two main prize attractions, teams have the opportunity to win other consolation prizes, inclusive of a valuable G$500 000 2nd place prize, G$200,000 3rd place prize and G$100 000 for 4th place, among others. The tournament commences on April 3 2021 and will conclude by May 5 2021.
All COVID-19 protocols will be in full effect.