Alvin Kallicharran, one of Guyana’s
most illustrious former West Indies
cricket captains and batting maestros,
has announced that partial sales
proceeds of his recently launched Caribbean
Cricket Superheroes Illustrated Children’s
Storybook will be donated to the Georgetown
Cricket Club Bourda’s Restoration Fund.
The announcement was made jointly by Kallicharran
and the book’s author Tony McWatt, both
former GCC members, during a March 23 Meet
& Greet at the Clubs pavilion.
Just two days before Kallicharran, Kalli as
he’s long since become familiarly known as
in every cricketing corner of the globe, had
celebrated his March 21, 2023, 74th Birthday
in a most memorable manner. He’d returned
to Port Mourant Berbice, his birthplace and
the spawning ground for his eventual career as
one of the most outstanding batsmen Guyana
and the West Indies has ever produced, for the
official launching of the illustrated children’s
storybook celebrating his cricketing journey.
Authored by Tony McWatt, the son of the late
former Guyana and West Indies wicketkeeper
batsman Clifford Babyboy McWatt, the
Alvin Kallicharran Guyana’s Pocket Dynamo
Caribbean Cricket Superhero Illustrated
Children’s Storybook chronicles Kalli’s cricket
career journey. From the humblest of beginnings
to its finest ever performance, his 1975 Inaugural ICC World Cup thrashing of Australia’s legendary
fast bowler Dennis Lillee at England’s Oval Cricket Ground.
Published as a 32 page plus covers, full colour, illustrated paperback the Alvin Kallicharran Guyana’s
Pocket Dynamo Little Giant Caribbean Cricket Superhero Children’s Storybook was officially launched
in celebration of Kalli’s 74th at a Berbice Cricket Board hosted Tuesday March 21, 2023, special event
held at the Port Mourant Portuguese Community Centre.
During the launch, several hundred copies of the book were presented to the Berbice Cricket Board
for subsequent distribution to the county’s Primary School aged young cricketers courtesy of Laparkan
Canada.
While in Berbice, Kallicharran also conducted a two-hour coach session for the county’s youth
cricketers. The coaching session which ran from 3:00 – 5:00 pm on Monday March 20 was held at the
famous Port Mourant cricket ground.