Run Machine scores another ton in 2008
The phenomenal Shivnarine Chanderpaul predictably won the Guyana Cricketer of the Year Award while Guyana under-17 leg-spinner Amir Khan copped the country’s Youth Cricketer of the Year Award (Roy Frederick’s trophy) at the Guyana Cricket Board’s annual awards ceremony at the Umana Yana in Georgetown on Friday night.
Guyana, West Indies and Durham’s prolific middle order batsman Shivnarine ‘Tiger’ Chanderpaul as expected carted off the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Cricketer of the Year award for the second year in succession when that entity held its 2008 Annual Awards ceremony at the Umana Yana Friday night.
December 21, 2008
GCB AWARDS…
THE Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) held its annual award ceremony on Friday evening at the Umana Yana to honour cricketers and officials for their sterling performances to raise the level of cricket during the year, and Shivnarine Chanderpaul has copped the Cricketer-of-the-Year trophy for the third successive year.
4:00AM Sunday Dec 21, 2008 | Mark Richardson
The moral of this story is that, if you are going to do something different, then do it well.
by Tony Cozier
In NAPIER
A PAIR of left-handers, alike in body and soul but separated by 112 Tests of experience, came to the rescue of another faltering West Indies innings on the opening day of the second and final Test at McLean Park here yesterday.