Ahead of the departure of the Guyana Women’s cricket team for St. Kitts, President of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Bissoondyal Singh met with them on Sunday.
The Guyanese ladies will be heading into battle in the CG United Women’s Super50 Cup and the Blaze T20 tournaments which will bowl off from March 4 and March 16, respectively in St. Kitts and Nevis.
Singh met with the team at the GCB’s LBI facility and wished them the best ahead of what he deemed ‘tough competition on the road’. He urged them to remain positive and deliver their best performances come game time.
The GCB president gave his complete support to the team ahead of their assignments, further reassuring them that all of Guyana will be behind them as they seek to bring home both, if not one of the two titles currently held by their Barbados counterparts.
Singh also made a gift of cricket gear to several players in the team including Yonnette Welcome, who represented Essequibo in the recently concluded female inter-county competitions. She received a full kitbag.
Welcome is the second player from Warapoka, an indigenous village in Region One (Barima/Waini) to represent Guyana at any level; the first player was last year’s Guyana under-17 pacer Damian Joseph.
The ICC Women’s T20I cricketer of the year, Hayley Matthews, will lead the defending champions Barbados in both the Super50 and T20 tournaments. On paper, the champions have arguably the strongest team apart from Guyana and the Trinidad & Tobago Red Force Ladies.
However, Guyana’s team will be led by the experienced wicket-keeper/batter Shamaine Campbelle who will have a wide array of talent, the likes of Cherry-Ann Fraser, Ashmini Munisar, Shabika Gajnabi, Sheneta Grimmond, Nyia Latchman and Naomi Barkoye at her disposal.
Round one of the Super50 cup will feature a triple-header on Monday (March 4) with the Guyanese ladies facing hosts, the Leeward Islands.
