The cricket fraternity in Berbice and Guyana is saddened with the sudden passing of Fazil Abdul Sattaur `The Terminator who passed away Monday in Canada.
The late Sattaur, a pugnacious right-handed batsman and wicketkeeper, started his local career at the Albion Sports Club and later represented the Everest Cricket Club.
He scored 198 against Demerara at the GTM Under 19 Inter-County level and made his regional Under-19 debut in 1983 against Barbados in Jamaica playing under the captaincy of Vinoo Solomon.
The following year, 1984, despite the presence of players like Carl Hooper, Jimmy Adams, Roland Holder and Keith Arthurton, he was the leading scorer with 346 runs at an average of 36.6 which included a magnificent 128 against Trinidad and Tobago when the Nortel tournament was hosted by Barbados.
Later that year (in October) he made his senior first-class debut for Berbice against Demerara at the Albion Community Development Centre ground.
The moment of truth for Sattaur, came in February of 1986 when he made his regional first-class debut against the Leeward Islands at the Georgetown Cricket Club, Bourda.
Opening the batting with Clayton Lambert he was caught by Viv Richards off the bowling of Eustace Proctor for 17. He failed to score in Guyana’s second innings.
When Sudesh Dhaniram announced his arrival at the regional first-class scene with consecutive centuries in 1987, Sattaur’s first-class career was limited to three more matches, one against Barbados in 1988 at the Kensington Oval and two in 1990 against the Leeward Islands.
His highest first-class score remains 94 against Demerara at the Blairmont Community Centre Ground 1989 in the Inter-County final.
Sattaur and Nyeem Baksh absconded whilst a Guyana team was touring Canada in 1991.
He was later pardon by the Guyana Cricket Board in 1993 and played his last match for Guyana in 1994 at the Blairmont Community Centre ground.
Guyana lost that Regional one day match to the Leewards Islands.
Sattaur migrated to Canada in1995 and went on to represent his adopted country at the 2003 ICC Cricket World Cup in South Africa.
Meanwhile the Guyana Cricket Board in a press release stated that it was saddened to learn of Sattaue’s death.
“The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) is saddened at the passing of former Berbice and national cricketer (Junior and Senior) Fazil ‘Terminator’ Sattaur,” the release stated.
“The former aggressive opening batsmen got the name ‘Terminator’ because of his fearless style of batting. He also played first-division cricket for Albion Cricket Club and Everest Cricket Club and for Berbice at both the junior and senior levels,” the release added.
“The ‘Terminator’ fell just short of a first-class century, scoring 94 in the 1989 Jones Cup match between Berbice and Demerara, which was at the time recognized as First-Class Cricket.
“Sattaur later migrated to Canada where he played three One-Day Internationals for Canada during the ICC World Cup in 2003 which was played in South Africa,” the GCB release stated.
