FORMER West Indies U19 cricketer and Senior Guyanese cricketer Gajanand Singh and former youth national cricketer Dominique Rikhi were selected on Thursday in a 14-man squad for next month’s ICC Cricket World Cup League Two tri-series in the capital city of Muscat in Oman.

Both Guyanese, now living in the US, have been making an impact with the bat, which resulted in them participating in the US National Cricket Camp in Texas earlier this year.

The Berbicians have also produced for their clubs in the New York National Cricket League.

The former Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC) batsman Rikhi, who scored over 2200 runs in all formats of the game in 2019 has been a mainstay of the Richmond Hill Liberty Cricket Club team. This season, he competed for the New Jersey Stallions in the Minor League.

Singh, who played club cricket in Guyana for the Young Warriors CC, also had some solid performances with the bat for NY based club Meten-Meer-Zorg in the Caribbean Fest 40-over tournament in 2021.

The two Guyanese will get a chance to play against host Oman and Nepal in the tri-series from September 13 to September 20. Before the start of the series, on September 6 and September 9, the US team would also play two One Day Internationals against Papua New Guinea.

Meanwhile, fellow Guyanese and former club mate of Rikhi, Akshay Homraj was dropped from the US National team. The 25-year-old made his debut for the US against the United Arab Emirates in December of 2019.

MAKE US PROUD
In their congratulatory message on Friday, the Management of the RHTYSC wished former player Rikhi “success on the tour” and indicated that they were “confident that you would make us proud”.

Numerous local cricketers, US-based cricketers and their clubs also extended congratulatory messages to the pair.