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Mar 03, 2011 Sports
To become 5th player to play ODI cricket
Guyana and Berbice leg-spinner Davendra Bishoo, who plays for Albion in local cricket, is expected to arrive in Bangladesh to join the West Indies team in the World Cup as a replacement for injured Dwayne Bravo and becomes the only the fourth Berbician and first from Albion to attend a World Cup event.
After putting together a string of good performances for Guyana last year the 25-year-old was rewarded with selection to the West Indies ‘A’ team for their limited-overs home series against Pakistan ‘A’ before his call-up for the World Cup.
Bishoo, who joins Sew Shivnarine, Narsingh Deonarine and Sewnarine Chattergoon as the Albion players picked for a West Indies senior team, received the Guyana Cricket Board senior Regional Cricketer of the year award and has been adjudged runner-up National Sportsman of the year.
Now in the company of Rohan Kanhai, Roy Fredericks and Alvin Kallicharran as Berbicians who attended the World Cup, Bishoo took 24 wickets including two five-wicket hauls and was Guyana’s leading wicket taker in last year’s Regional First-Class competition before taking 19 wickets from three matches in this year’s tournament before he had to leave for Asia and missed the second innings of the Barbados innings in Guyana’s last match at Providence.
Bishoo captured 10 wickets and the Man-of-the Series Award to help Guyana win the inaugural Caribbean Cup T20 tournament to qualify for the Champions League in South Africa last year only Barbadian Ryan Hinds, who played two more matches than Bishoo, had more than his 10 scalps in last November’s Regional 50-over competition to end an outstanding 2010.
Yesterday President of his Club Imtiaz Bacchus, in a press release on behalf of the executives and members of the club said Bishoo’s hard work and commitment has certainly paid off.
“We are very confident that you will grab this opportunity with both hands and cement your place not only in the West Indies’ One Day Team but also in the Test Team.
All Albion is proud of your achievement which undoubtedly will serve as inspiration not only to the many young cricketers we have at Albion but also to youngsters throughout Berbice and Guyana,” The Albion President continued.
In addition to Deonarine, Chattergoon and Sew Shivnarine who became Albion’s first test player in 1978 and played a solitary ODI, the Corentyne club has another One-Day International player in Sudesh Dhaniram who played 44 ODIs for Canada and Bishoo should soon join that list of ODI players from Albion.
“We would also like to take this opportunity to applaud you on your selection as Guyana’s Runner-up Sportsman of the year 2010. Congratulations and best wishes. We are confident that you will make us all proud” Bacchus concluded.
THIS IDIOT TELLING GUYANA WE HAVE NO SAY IN THE 50% PROFIT SHARING AGREEMENT WE HAVE WITH EXXON.
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