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Rohan Bholalall Kanhai is a Guyanese former cricketer of Indian origin who represented the West Indies in 79 Test matches. He is widely considered to be one of the best batsmen of the 1960s. Kanhai featured in several great West Indian teams, playing alongside Sir Garfield Sobers, Roy Fredericks, Lance Gibbs, and Alvin Kallicharran among others. C. L. R. James wrote in the New World journal that Kanhai was "the high peak of West Indian cricketing development", and praised his "adventuresome" attitude. Kanhai was part of the West Indian team that won the inaugural, 1975 Cricket World Cup.
Rosignol is a small village on the west bank of the Berbice River in Mahaica-Berbice, Guyana.
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Clayton Benjamin Lambert is a former West Indian cricketer, who later played for United States as well.
Basil Fitzherbert Butcher was a Guyanese cricketer who played for the West Indies cricket team. He was regarded as a reliable right-handed middle-order batsman in the star-studded West Indian batting line-up of the 1960s. Australian cricketer and media personality Richie Benaud regarded him as the most difficult of the West Indian batsmen to dismiss.
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Jonathan Alexander Foo is a Guyanese cricketer. An all-rounder, Foo is a leg spin bowler and lower order batsman for Guyana who made his national debut in the 2010 Caribbean Twenty20. He played a leading role in the final of that tournament, scoring 42 runs from 17 balls to help Guyana to victory over Barbados.
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Gudakesh Motie who hail from Belvedere, Corentyne is a Guyanese cricketer who plays for Guyana in West Indian domestic cricket. He is a left-arm orthodox bowler.
Paul Gordon Wintz is a Guyanese cricketer who has played for the Guyanese national side in West Indian domestic cricket, and also for the Guyana Amazon Warriors franchise in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL). He is a right-arm fast-medium bowler.
Kennedy Darsath Venkersammy is a former international cricketer who represented the American national side between 1982 and 1986. He was born in Guyana, and before emigrating to the U.S. played first-class cricket for Berbice.
Vishal Nagamootoo is a former Guyanese cricketer who represented the Guyanese national team in West Indian domestic cricket. He played as a wicket-keeper.
Akshaya Persaud is a Guyanese cricketer. He made his first-class debut for Guyana in the 2017–18 Regional Four Day Competition on 4 January 2018. In October 2019, he was named in the Combined Campuses and Colleges squad for the 2019–20 Regional Super50 tournament and made his List A debut on 6 November 2019.
Tyrone Ranjit Etwaroo is a Guyanese former first-class cricketer who represented Berbice, Guyana and an International XI in first-class cricket.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Guyana is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The virus was confirmed to have reached Guyana on 11 March 2020. The first case was a woman who travelled from New York, a 52-year-old woman suffering from underlying health conditions, including diabetes and hypertension. The woman died at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
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- ↑ "Analysis: Decoding the Guyana Jaguars Super50 squad". News Room Guyana. 2020-12-23. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
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- ↑ "Mahendra Nagamootoo joins AFC". Stabroek News. 2014-10-20. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
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