Assistant Coach of the Guyana Harpy Eagles Ryan Hercules through the Guyana Cricket Board’s Cricket Development Committee, made a donation of cricket coaching equipment to the Essequibo Cricket Board (ECB) at the Imam Bacchus Learning Resource Centre, Affiance, Essequibo Coast over the weekend.
Receiving the equipment was President of the ECB, Deleep Singh and other executive members.
The ECB head expressed immense gratitude for the equipment which will assist the County’s cricketers reaching the level of fitness required for competitions.
National Coach, Hercules said he was elated to make the presentation adding that this was just a start and that more was to come.
He urged the coaches to use the equipment to develop young players in becoming good ambassadors and role models of Essequibo.
“I would have mentioned to the coach and the president the use of these equipment [such as] high cone, bats, side arm, [among others] to enable the coaches to develop the young players in Essequibo, taking them forward to being good ambassadors and role models of Essequibo. I do expect the coaches to treat the stuff with care, be responsible and I do expect them to nurture the young players in Essequibo and hope the equipment is very useful of the ECB and the players in Essequibo going forward in their ventures to hopefully represent Guyana,” he said.
Hercules, a former Essequibo cricketer reminisced that during his time in the early days of coaching, he was not privileged to have so many equipment and he expects that it should be treated with utmost care, respect, pride and dignity since it is a stepping stone for the development of players from the county to one day represent the country at the national level.
Also present at the event was Essequibo’s Coach Rayburn Gonsalves who also expressed appreciation for the assistance. He acknowledged that it will enhance his coaching programmes and promised to use it in best interest of the players.
