Transport Sports Club young all-rounders, Stephon Sankar and Tamar Apple, were the latest to benefit from project “Cricket Gear for young and promising cricketers in Guyana”.
This is a joint initiative between Anil Beharry and Kishan Das of the USA.

The sixteen-year-old Sankar is a student of Chase Academic Foundation while the fourteen-year Apple attends St. Winifride’s Secondary School.
Sankar represented President’s 1X in the 2020 Inter-County Under-15 Tournament.

Total cricket-related items received/purchased so far include $350,000 in cash, thirteen colored cricket uniforms, two trophies, seventeen pairs of cricket boots, thirty pairs of batting pads, thirty- one cricket bats, twenty-eight pairs of batting gloves, twenty-one thigh pads, three pairs of wicket keeping pads, four arm guards, two boxes, nine cricket bags, six bat rubbers and six helmets. In addition to the above, $600,000 worth in gear was donated by Sheik Mohamed, former National wicketkeeper/batsman.

To date, fifty-five young players from all three counties of Guyana have benefitted from three junior gear bags, two trophies, four arm guards, twenty-one bats, two groin guards, four helmets, twenty-two pairs of cricket shoes, thirteen pairs of batting pads, two thigh pads, one bat rubber and nineteen pairs of batting gloves.

In addition, two clubs in the Pomeroon area benefitted from two used bats. Pomeroon, Leguan and Wakenam Cricket Committees as well as Cotton Tree Die Hard also received one box of red cricket balls each.

Cold Fusion Cricket Club received thirteen colored uniforms while RHCCCC received two, fifteen white cricket shirts, one pair of junior batting pads, one pair of wicket-keeping gloves and a set of stumps and bails.

The Essequibo Cricket Board also benefitted along with the Town of Lethem and youth coach Travis Persaud from one box of red balls.

Cricket-related items, used or new, are distributed free of cost to young and promising cricketers in Guyana. Skills, discipline and education are important characteristics of the recipients. Talent spotting is being done across the country and club leaders also assist to identify talent. Progressive and well managed cricket clubs with a youth programme will also benefit.