THE Transport Sports Club executive members and cricketers are elated that their long-standing cricketer, Alvin Mohabir, has been selected skipper of the Guyana team for the upcoming Regional U17 tournament, to be played in Trinidad and Tobago from July 17 to 28.

Coach and senior captain of the club, Shaun Massiah, in an invited comment, noted that the teenager has grown up in the club.
“He started at the age of eight and has blossomed into a genuine all-rounder.”

Massiah said that the youngster had shown the requisite temperament at an early age. His discipline on and off the field, according to the veteran cricketer/administrator, has allowed him to blossom into a cricketer who can progress to the highest level.

“I can vividly remember he won a game at the Under-13 level for us. It came down to getting four runs from the last ball and he pulled the ball for four through midwicket to give Transport the victory. From then, you could have seen the ability in Alvin.”

Massiah and the other seniors at the club, as they have done in the past, looked to build on the success and introduced Mohabir at the tender age of 12 to second-division cricket with grown men.
“He did well; he took 13 wickets against UG in a two-day match being played at GNIC ground.”

As Mohabir acclimatised himself to the rigours of second-division, he was pushed further by Massiah, who introduced the youngster to first-division cricket at the age of 13.
Since then he has been a regular on the team. The exposure against some of the better cricketers in the city has not only developed his batting and bowling but his overall confidence.

This enabled him to play and excel at the U15 level in Demerara, before he captained the national side in the regional tournament.
“From then to now, Alvin has been moving from one level to the next with his performance. We’re even looking forward for him to be somewhere along the line in the Guyana U19 setup.”

The 16-year-old was a part of the 2021 Cricket West Indies U19 camp last year with a few other promising Guyanese young cricketers.
He was able to build on what he learnt and excelled upon returning home.

In the recently concluded Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) U17 tournament, Mohabir finished as the leading wicket-taker and the second-highest run-scorer.
Massiah said that although Transport has played an integral part in his development, Alvin also got help from the likes of his uncle, talented MYO batter Kemraj Ramdeen. In addition, he practses with his brother Dave Mohabir, who “is coming up sharply”.

“I’m just hoping that he can project and get into the Guyana senior setup sometime shortly – that is what we are working towards: getting Alvin to that level, which is his dream.”