THE Berbice Cricket Board, on Sunday 19th of December, would be hosting its Annual General Meeting at the Port Mourant Community Centre Ground and incumbent president, Hilbert foster, would be seeking his third successive two-year term after being elected to the presidency in 2018.

Confident of securing a third term, the incumbent executives have been busy working on obtaining sponsorships to hit the ground running from January 2022.

Foster, who has led a massive marketing drive for the BCB, on Friday last met with long-time sponsor, Chandradat Chintamani, who recommitted to sponsoring the third edition of the BCB Ivan Madray 20/20 tournament.
The tournament would be launched shortly and would involve twelve teams in the county.

The teams would include for the first time the Berbice River Cricket Association first division team along with West Berbice, Blairmont, Police, Tucber Park, Rose Hall Canje, Young Warriors, Albion, RHTYSC, Port Mourant, Upper Corentyne and Skeldon. Chintamani , who is the General Manager of Muneshwar Ltd, informed Foster that he was very impressed with the standard of the game in the Ancient County and was delighted to be associated with it . He is the nephew of Madray, who was the third Berbician to play test cricket for the West Indies.

The board was also informed by popular overseas businessman, Dave Narine, that he would be sponsoring a countywide tournament for second division teams across the county as part of an effort to unearth new talents for the future.

The tournament would involve close to one hundred teams in five sub associations: Berbice River, West Berbice, New Amsterdam/Canje, Lower Corentyne and Upper Corentyne.

Each of the zones would provide one champion, who would then play in an overall final.

Narine is a strong supporter of the game in Guyana and is the owner of the West Indian Imports Store in New York.

Junior Minister of Housing and Water, Susan Rodrigues, along with a group of businessmen, this week, would also be handing over a three-hundred and twenty-four thousand dollar pitch cover to the board.

The 20 feet by 100 feet cover would be the third one to be obtained by the vibrant board and would be handed over to the Upper Corentyne Cricket Association.

Cover have already been obtained for the West Berbice and Lower Corentyne areas and Foster has committed to getting two more for the riverain and New Amsterdam/Canje areas in early 2022.

Minister Rodrigues has committed to working along with the BCB to lift the game to another level in the county.

The BCB has announced plans to produce a total of ten West Indies players over the next three years and would be expanding its coaching and cricket development programmes in the New Year.