Barbados Advocate article.
Bridgetown, Barbados - The Barbados Under-17 Cricket Team was recently honoured with a reception for their success in West Indies Cricket Board Under-17 Competition in Tobago.
The Guardian Group hosted the victorious team on Friday night at the Hilton Hotel at an evening dubbed ‘Celebrate Our Champions’. Nigel Adams, Executive Manager of the Barbados Branch, congratulated the players for their achievements and noted that their success was clearly because of years of nurturing and hard work.
“This team of dedicated young men has been together from the Under-13 level and has been nurtured by very skilled persons during their formative cricketing years up to this point. It must be highlighted that all of them would have begun to hone their skills at primary school under the care, firstly of their PE teachers. They would have also been nurtured by the dedicated and skilled coaches of the National Sports Council and ultimately of the Barbados Cricket Association,” said Adams.
He also added that all of them would have emerged from the Herman Griffith Primary Schools’ Cricket Competition, a tournament that has now been rebranded as the Guardian Group Herman Griffith Primary Schools’ Cricket Competition.
West Indies cricket legend, Sir Wesley Hall, was also on hand to offer valuable advice to the young players. Sir Wesley spoke about balancing academics and sports, and noted that it was much easier to do this in the modern era.
He regaled those gathered with tales from his formative years at the Combermere School and how he made the transition from club cricket to the West Indies Cricket Team.
Barbados emerged as champions with a total of 19.9 points.
It was the narrowest of margins as second placed Windward Islands ended the tournament with 19.5 points, while Jamaica was third with 18.6 points. Guyana finished fourth with 14.1 points, hosts Trinidad and Tobago was fifth with 12.1 points, while the Leeward Islands finished sixth with 7.9 points.
First Published In The Barbados Advocate.