The past year or so of cricket in Guyana has been one of woeful underperformance on the field and fierce conflict and crisis in the board rooms of its administration. What has long been a sorry tale of administrative incompetence and abysmally low standards on the field of play has descended into a state of near anarchy characterised by warring factions at the level of the Demerara Cricket Board of Control. So bitter is the feud that recently two separate sets of elections were held for Board executives and it is now left to the courts to determine which executive is the legitimate one. In the leadup to the current sorry state of affairs accusations of mismanagement of monies and even corruption flew thick and fast; the whole sordid affair arrived at a terrifying low when Board Treasurer Pretipaul Jaigobin was doused with acid leaving him horribly scarred in an attack which he claimed was cricket-related.
The fact that the administration of cricket in the capital has clearly lurched out of control in what appears to be a ferocious feud over power is reflected in the abysmal state
