GCB Vice-president Azad Ibrahim resigns
Azad Ibrahim has resigned as GCB Vice-President
Azad Ibrahim has resigned as GCB Vice-President

GUYANA Cricket Board Vice President Azad Ibrahim has resigned from his role in the organisation.
Well-placed sources indicated that the GCB’s vice president Ibrahim had tendered his resignation with immediate effect and Treasurer Brian Sukhai resigned with notice until the end of the month.

Long-serving GCB Office administrator Savitri Persaud, the source said, is also planning to leave the post she has held for the last 30 years.
When contacted at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence, where he is the manager, Ibrahim confirmed he had resigned from both the GCB and Demerara Cricket Board (DCB), the former of which he served as treasurer, but declined to offer the reason at the time.
Ibrahim is president of the Muslim Youth Organisation (MYO) and Head of the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA).

He also sits on the Grounds/Venues committee of Cricket West Indies (CWI). While away from cricket he is an executive member of the CIOG, Chairman of the GGMC board and a board member of the Guyana Prison Service.
Ibrahim disclosed that he was aware that Persaud and Sukhai were thinking of leaving the GCB.

Meanwhile, GCB technocratic members with voting rights, Roger Harper and Anil Beharry, have already resigned, as has former CWI Director Hilbert Foster.
Guyana Harpy Eagles Head Coach Esaun Crandon was fired after winning five consecutive first-class titles.
Efforts to contact the GCB President Bissoondyal Singh for a comment proved futile.

East Coast businessman Singh was elected President of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) on March 29, 2021, after no legal elections were held in over a decade.
It was a breath of fresh air as almost everyone in the local cricket fraternity felt democracy in cricket had been finally restored.
The new GCB held its first Ordinary General Meeting (OGM) on June 19 at the La Bonne Intention Cricket Ground and the executive body was selected.

It consisted of Singh (President), Foster (Vice-President), Azad Ibrahim, (Vice-President), Ronald Williams (Secretary), Davteerth Anandjit (Assistant Secretary), Sukhai (Treasurer), Dr Cecil Beharry (Assistant Treasurer), Claude Raphael (Public Relations Officer), Rabindranath Saywack (Marketing Manager), Shaun Messiah (Chairman of Competitions Committee), Ramnaresh Sarwan (Chairman of Senior Selectors), Andre Percival (Chairman of Junior Selectors), Harper and Beharry (Technocratic Members with voting rights).
But now it seems that the ruling body for cricket in Guyana is rapidly losing its executive members.

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