What Clyde Walcott did in British Guiana, as the legacy is monumental,.
My job was to develop cricket on the sugar plantations and improve the quality of Guyanese cricket in international competitions. It was by far the most challenging task I had undertaken.
There were several clubs on each estate, and I decided to have them amalgamated into one club. If there were any disputes, I had to resolve them. Some very talented players emerged at that time, including Rohan Kanhai, Basil Butcher, and Joe Solomon. None of the cricketers on the estate were coached, just as Shivnarine Chanderpaul today has natural talent.
My job was to guide them and advise them on how to make the best possible use of that talent. Until then only two cricketers from the ‘interior’ had managed to break the monopoly of players from the Georgetown area in the British Guiana side: John Trim from Port Mourant, who went on to represent the West Indies, and ‘Sugar Boy’ Baijnauth [from Albion]. Now they were to be followed by others.
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as the legacy is monumental,.