Outpouring of mourning for Guyanese cricket administrator Jainauth

THERE was an outpouring of mourning at the Ajax Crematorium and Visitation Centre, Ontario on Wednesdaylast as hundreds gathered to pay their final respects to the revered cricket administrator and former player Jainauth ‘Vish’ Jadunauth.

Jadunauth, who passed away last Saturday, following a brief illness, was described as an administrator par excellence. He would have celebrated his 61st birth anniversary on March 11.

In a moving eulogy, niece Nadia Jadunauth told the packed audience that her uncle will surely be missed, not only by his close relatives and friends but by the cricket fraternity as a whole.

According to Nadia, Vish was an uncle with lots of love and it was unbelievable that he had left us so soon, positing that the cricket fraternity in Ontario had lost an icon, Nadia said Vish manifested true humanity the way he lived his life.

Vish’s brother Dennis related how the deceased embraced the game of cricket from a very young age and it came as no surprise to him that he was involved at the administrative levels in both hardball and softball cricket and as a qualified West Indies-trained umpire.