CRICKETERS ARE CARING and charitable.
Reigning Barbados Cricket Association Elite champions Crane Resort St Catherine have come to crease and are playing an innings to assist the people from the tiny Eastern Caribbean island of Barbuda, which was ravaged last week by Hurricane Irma.
Led by their president and seasoned all-rounder Ulric Batson, the St Philip club started collecting donations from their players and spectators on Saturday and yesterday during their match against the Barbados Defence Force Sports Programme at Bayfield.
“We decided to assist after entertainer Coopa Dan [Jermaine Gittens] made an appeal to help the hurricane victims. He is someone, who can be seen around our club and a close friend of mine,” said Batson, who, like Gittens, is a primary school teacher. (EZS)
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