President Nadir says Everest is not just a cricket club

ON Thursday Evening, the Everest Cricket Club on Camp Road in the City held a gala reception and dinner to honour four of their cricketers and two table tennis players.
Known as the East Indian Cricket Club before 1970, Everest was founded in 1914 by John Veerasammy and is the third oldest club in Guyana after GCC and DCC.
It is arguably the fastest growing cricket club in Guyana in terms of infrastructural development and upgraded facilities.

Speaking at a venue that hosted its first First-Class match in 1997 when Guyana opposed England Lions, Mansoor Nadir, President of Everest and Speaker of House, noted that Everest is not just a cricket club.

“This club celebrates Sports and particularly wellness, you will still find a 72-year-old man playing table tennis with national champs.
You will still find versatile people playing squash, lawn tennis, table tennis and pickleball” informed Nadir.

“We are here tonight to celebrate our members especially those who have earned National Caps. Too often we only lament failures and disappointments and do not see failures and disappointments as challenges for us to overcome.

“We seem not to celebrate success and post Covid we have had quite a bit of successes at the Everest Club,” disclosed the head of Everest.
“Let’s just honour a few persons; we pay tribute to Mr Rob Edwards who is a member for three years. He is our leading racquet ball player; he plays squash, lawn tennis, table tennis, pickle ball and plays excellent football.

But more particularly Rob is the coordinator of our lawn tennis group and last year at the National Open he was runners-up in the Novis category.
The year before he along with his team… after 14 months of our squash court being commissioned, won the club championship.

Most of the people here tonight… their company or their Embassies are life members because of their contributions to Everest,” disclosed Nadir who has been at the helm of Everest since 2019.
The Embassy of the Republic of China has donated our solar system. Our light bill is about (guy) $3,000 per month but we generate and sell to the grid over (guy) $200,000 from our solar panels.

Anand Kumar from the Bank of Baroda, refurnished the billiards room which is called the Baroda lounge. Ambassador Karan and Anand Gohil produced the money to refurbish the Lawn Tennis Court.

The Sookrages from Bel Air Village, four years ago they started the modernisation of Everest by contributing the heavy equipment to maintain the ground.
“I want to congratulate those youngsters who have made the best use of what I consider the best facilities of any club in this country.

They put it to good use and we celebrate and encourage people to continue do to well and develop their skills which will benefit them for the rest of your lives” posited Nadir, who has been a member of Everest since 2005.

There was a large gathering of attendees including members of the Diplomatic Corps, former Director of Sport Neil Kumar, Commissioner of Information Charles Ramson Senior, members of the Business community and present and past players from the club.

The Honourees were: Richie Looknauth (National Cap), Junior Sinclair for his (Warriors and National Cap), Matthew Nandu (National and Warriors Cap), Nial Smith (Everest First-Division Captain), Miguel Wong (2022 National table tennis debut) and Colin Wong (National Table Tennis).

The Event culminated with a lavish dinner was well attended my media while the occasion was broadcast live on Guyana TV Network.