LONG-serving cricket executive, Deborah McNichol, created history after she was elected unopposed as the first female president of the Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC).
Mc Nichol, who was an executive of the club for eight years and a member for 18 years, is also the only woman at the helm of any cricket club in the Guyana.

She served as first vice-president in the past executive, and will have Shawn Holder as her first vice president, with the second Vice President being Steven Jacobs.

The other executive members are: Adrian Smith (Secretary), Denzel Alleyne (Treasurer), Shaquille Mosley (Assistant Secretary/Treasurer), Sean Devers (Public Relations Officer) while former club president, Winton Semple and former National youth pacer and coach, Quason Nedd, are committee members.

Mc Nichol, who has worked as a public servant for 43 years, said she is honoured to be elected as the first female cricket club president, and emphasised that only with hard work and unity could success be achieved at ‘Malteenoes’.

“Our biggest challenge to bringing back MSC to its best days is funding and a decreased membership, but I am confident that this executive, elected in the middle of the pandemic, will work to promote the club as somewhere people would want to join and spend their afternoons once this COVID-19 goes away” said the mother of three.

Mc Nichol said her brothers played football and cricket while two of her sisters played hockey and a third sister participated in boxing and cricket.

The club has produced 27 National under-19 players between 1975 and 2013 and 32 who played for the National senior team between 1909 to 2009.

It has also birthed the careers of eight West Indies International players between 1930 to 2003, with the latest being Indomattie Goordial, who made her Test debut.

The historic club, located on Thomas Lands, was founded in 1902 by Barbadian Tailor Ferdinand Archer.