Concord Times (Freetown)
Sahr Morris Jr.
14 July 2008
The game of cricket got a boost last week as the Sierra Leone Cricket Association (SLCA) received equipment worth millions of Leones from the Bank of Sierra Leone (BSL) Handing over the equipment to some SLCA executive members, Ira Nyakeh who represented BSL Human Resources Manager, Mrs. Grace O. Hassan said the equipment were bought years back for the Cooper Face (the BSL team) but because the association requested for equipment, BSL decided to give them out.
Nyakeh, a former cricketer, pleaded with SLCA executive to use the equipment in the best possible way adding that BSL hopes to do more for the sports.
He also appealed to the association to take the game all over the country as Freetown alone does not make Sierra Leone.
Receiving the equipment, SLCA president, Bourance Coker assured BSL that they will use the equipment in the right way and help to bring more laurels into the country.
On taking the game around the country, he said SLCA is planning to send the national coach on a tour of the entire country. The coach's findings will be used as a basis to kick start the cricket team's national plans.
Coker used the opportunity to inform the bank of their new plans to organise the first ever female league in the country from which the female national team will be selected.
The presented items include two pairs of batting inner gloves, Abdo guards, batting gloves, face guards, pie pads, arm guards, wicket keeping gloves and wicket keeping inners.
Also included are 18 cricket balls, three stump sets, three pairs of super test batting gloves and batting leg guards, four cricket bats, three pairs of gloves, seven wicket keeping pads and batting handle grips.
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