The Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) will host a ‘Night of Remembrance’ tonight to honour Lennox Hunte who died last week Wednesday at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC).
The event is being held to celebrate Hunte’s contribution to cricket in Guyana.
Hunte, 63, who leaves to mourn a daughter, was a former DCC left arm orthodox spinner, vice-president of DCC and former chairman of the Junior Selection Panel on the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB).
The remembrance night which is jointly hosted by the DCC, Hunte’s family members, friends of DCC and the GCB, will start at 19:00 hours and all members, family and friends are invited.
At the event there will also be an open microphone session for persons wishing to pay tribute and share experiences about the former long standing member of the Queenstown-based club.
In an email from the DCC club the president Alfred Mentore wrote that it was “with great sadness that we at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) learnt of the passing of this distinguished member, who served selflessly.
“Our prayers are with his closest family and friends who are deeply affected.”
Hunte will be laid to rest tomorrow and the body leaves the funeral home at 11:00 hours and arrives at the DCC for an 11:30-13:00 hours viewing and further tributes. Afterwards it would leave for the Ebenezer Gospel Hall, Ebenezer Drive, West Ruimveldt for funeral service at 15:00 hours and then for interment.
Hunte contributed not only as a slow bowler but also opened the bowling with the new ball, bowling left arm medium pace. He was also a lower order batsman. According to the email, Hunte was a man of character and was known to many as a disciplinarian.
“As a member, he would be deeply missed in the development of young cricketers at DCC and by extension Guyana and it is the view that someone of his calibre is irreplaceable,” the email noted.
Meanwhile, the executive and members of the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) also expressed “heartfelt condolences” to the family, relatives and friends of the late cricket administrator.
“Huntie, as he was familiarly called, was involved in the game of cricket in Georgetown for over five decades – as a player, a selector and a liaison officer. He was a dedicated cricketer to his club and as a selector he was never afraid to defend his selections whenever it became necessary,” the GCA wrote.
In the GCA’s message it stated that Hunte had a humorous side and those who were associated with him will always remember the stories he told about playing cricket with the late Fred Wills and others at DCC.
The GCA believes that his death has left cricket in Georgetown with a void that will be “difficult to fill.”
