Coaches attached to the women’s teams that participated in yesterday’s Demerara zone final of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) female Inter-Ward limited-overs tournament have expressed their dissatisfaction with the low standard of women’s cricket in Guyana. Georgetown coach, Bharat Mangru, called for more attention from the GCB to women’s cricket after his side was bowled out for 63 yesterday against East Coast Demerara.
Mangru stressed the need for area boards to do their part to elevate the standard of women’s cricket and suggested that too much of the work was left to the coaches who are already operating with limited resources.
Latchman Yadram, coach of the East Coast Demerara side, declared himself not too satisfied with the standard of play in the final even though his team won, and bemoaned the little attention given to women’s cricket.
He noted, however, that he was impressed with the talent he has seen in the tournament that started last Wednesday.
Mangru, who is one of Guyana’s leading scorers, also pointed out that he had not seen one GCB or Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) executive throughout the tournament and suggested that the executives were not being vibrant enough to help this form of cricket.
He said that there was need for more women’s cricket competitions starting at the school level and said that most of the school-aged players that participated in the tournament were not very good.
He is calling for a total restructuring of the schools’ programme for females.
Yadram said that the East Coast Cricket Board (ECCB) will be doing all it can to help female cricketers in that area.
He said that the executives of the board intend to implement a one-day coaching programme shortly and informed that Hardeo Sattaur, another coach attached to the board, will assist with the coaching.
He said that this strategy will focus on improving fundamental techniques that the cricketers may lack.
