Alvin Kallicharran will be returning to Port Mourant Berbice, his birthplace and the spawning ground for his eventual career as one of the most outstanding batsmen Guyana and the West Indies has ever produced, for the official launching of an illustrated children’s storybook celebrating his cricketing journey.
This is according to the Berbice Cricket Board which noted that the former West Indies captain will be celebrating his 74th birth anniversary on March 21.
“Authored by Tony McWatt, the son of the late former Guyana and West Indies wicketkeeper batsman Clifford ‘Babyboy McWatt,’ the Alvin Kallicharran Guyana’s Pocket Dynamo Caribbean Cricket Superhero Illustrated Children’s Storybook chronicles his cricket career journey. From the humblest of beginnings to its finest ever performance, his 1975 Inaugural ICC World Cup thrashing of Australia’s legendary fast bowler at England’s Oval Cricket Ground,” the release stated.
Published as a 32-page plus covers, full coloured, illustrated paperback, the book will be officially launched in celebration of Kallicharran’s 74th at a Berbice Cricket Board hosted special event to be held at the Port Mourant Portuguese Community Centre on Tuesday
Starting time for the March 21 Launch will be at 3:00 pm sharp. During the launch several hundred copies of the book will be presented to the Berbice Cricket Board for subsequent distribution to the county’s Primary Schools aged young cricketers courtesy of Laparkan Canada.
While in Berbice, Kallicharran will also conduct a two-hour coaching session for the county’s youth cricketers. The coaching session will run from 3:00 – 5:00 pm on Monday March 20 and will be held at the Port Mourant cricket ground.
