The Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) will be 100 years old this year and the club has planned a year-long programme of activities.
A release from the club stated that it will be celebrating its “Centennial Anniversary throughout the year 2012 in which the Club will host a number of fund raising events and activities aimed at achieving the objectives of fostering the development of the club’s infrastructure.”
The club also plans to improve its practice facilities which will aid the development of the club’s cricketers and the wider Community.
“During the month of January, the club will be holding its usual end of month last Friday Club Nights and these are expected to be followed by many other activities during the coming months,” the release stated.
The release added that viewing for the Regional T20 tournament which begins today in Antigua, continues to be an annual feature on their calendar and coincides with the official launch of the DCC’s Centenary Year Celebrations.
“DCC, in an effort to engender maximum support for the embattled Guyana Cricket Team while at the same time honor Christopher Barnwell’s ascendency to the captaincy of the team, has decided to show all the T20 games on wide screen television at the Club’s venue, Lance Gibbs Street, Queenstown, Georgetown live on ESPN,” stated the release.
“Our aim is to create a cricket village with a similar atmosphere to those in Antigua and Barbados where the games would be played, hence, we believe that the public viewing would be undertaken in an engaging and cricket friendly ambience.
“The fact that the public would be an environment which has served the game for a hundred [100] years and produced great cricketers such as the legendary Clive Lloyd, Lance Gibbs, the Harper brothers and Roy Fredericks, promises to make the viewing of the games an electrifying experience.”
The release said that members of the public are invited to visit the club to view all the games free of charge.
