FORMER Malteenoes and National U-19 keeper Delroy Jacobs is up in arms with the exclusion 18-year-old Ronaldo Jeffery who hails from Bartica.
Jacobs, who played for Guyana U-15s in 2004 and U-19s in 2005 and 2007, is the Coach of Jeffery, a wicketkeeper and opening batter who was left out of the Guyana Under-19 cricket team.
The Guyana squad will travel to St Kitts on July 29 for the Regional 50 overs tournament which starts on July 1.
Since the next U-19 World Cup is scheduled for early next year in Zimbabwe and Namibia, no three-day tournament will be played this year.
Jeffery, who also represented City team Malteenoes in the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) tournament is among seven standby players named by the selectors.
“This year’s Under- 19 inter county tournament was the poorest we ever held. Never the less
I am very disappointed what message are we sending our young cricketers? Guyana last won the one-day tournament in 2018,” lamented Jacobs, the cousin of Steven Jacobs who won back-to-back three-day U-19 titles in 2006 and 2007.
It is understood that Canada has pulled out and USA has been allowed to send two teams.
Canada pulling out could have opened the door for a West Indies development team made up of three players from standby list of each of the five Territorial teams.
This would have given players like Jeffery another chance to play at this level since this is his last year as a youth player.
Wavell Allen, Neeran Bani, Sanjay Algoo, Jayden Dowlin, Shiloh Adams, Matthew Pottoya and Ronaldo Jeffery are among the standby players named by the Guyana selectors.
It is understood that the Bartica Cricket Association has sent an official letter on this issue to the Guyana Cricket Board.