YOUNG WARRIORS CRICKET CLUB TO HOST EAST CANJE DAY OF SPORTS

The Young Warriors Cricket Club of Cumberland, East Canje, Berbice will be hosting the East Canje Day of Sports on November 6 at the Cumberland Ground. The day’s events will be cricket and football and will see villages competing against each other.
Over the years the East Canje area produced many talented cricketers with the latest being young West Indies winning captain Shimron Hetmyer who is on the road to become only the second senior West Indies player after Leonard Baichan. His brother Seon Hetymer, Gajanand Singh, Damodar Daesarat, Richard and Kevin Ramdeen, Balram Samaroo, Kwesi Maltay, Linden Austin, Boodnarine Sumair and Kassim Khan among many others represented Guyana at the youth levels.
Even though most of the players came through The Young Warriors Cricket Club programme, they live in different villages in the Canje district. This leads to regular fierce competition among the village teams.
Some of the teams expected to take part are Canefield, Gangaram, Canje Pathfinders, Betsy Ground, Goed Bananen Land and Rose Hall Estate.
The cricket competition will be of five overs a-side and will involve second division players. However, the teams are allowed to buy the first division players in the area with the starting bid being two thousand dollars with the exception of Shimron Hetymer whose starting bid will be ten thousand.
In addition, there will be a football game involving players from #2, Palmyra, Sheet Anchor and Cumberland versus the other villages in East Canje. Attractive prizes are up for grabs. Proceeds from this event will go towards the host to help continue promoting cricket in the area. The first cricket match bowls off at 9:30hrs.