Today’s DCB elections postponed pending Court of Appeal hearing
Honorary Secretary of the Guyana Cricket Board, Anand Sanasie, through his lawyer, has filed a Stay Order at the Court of Appeal, seeking to block the much-anticipated Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) elections that was set for today.
The elections at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) pavilion were expected to resolve the administrative cricket impasse in Demerara but as a result of the court challenge, the DCB’s stakeholders have decided to postpone the elections until the Stay Order application is heard later this month before Justice Rishi Persaud.
Stabroek Sports understands that following the announcement of the elections, the Stay Order was filed in the names of Anand Sanasie, representing the West Demerara Cricket Board and Anand Kaladeen on behalf of the East Bank Cricket Board, to block the process.
Attorney for the Georgetown Cricket Association, the East Coast Cricket Board and the Upper Demerara Cricket Association, Arudranauth Gossai, during an interview with Stabroek Sports, sought to clear the air on misinformation being peddled.
He made it clear that the Stay Order was only filed and not granted.
“After we published the notice for the elections, the other side [Sanasie and Kaladeen] applied for a Stay Order and that Stay application is not going to be heard until sometime in August so we agreed to postpone the election until the stay application is heard. So, both sides agreed that there would be no elections [today],” the Attorney explained.
Stabroek Sports had reported in June this year that Justice Navindra Singh ordered that the elections for the DCB be held no later than August 11, 2019 with the number of voting delegates to be in accordance with Article 15, Schedule II of the Guyana Cricket Administration Act.
Several Demerara-based cricket groups including the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA), the East Coast Cricket Board (ECCB), and the Upper Demerara Cricket Association (UDCA) had petitioned the Court to order that the elections be held.
Stabroek Sports had previously reported that Attorney Gossai had contended that the DCB had not held an election in over eight years and it is through the petition that they sought to hold the elections.