deliveries columns catches/stumpings year birth_date tenfor bowling country club fivefor batting name fullname birth_place column role source date runs wickets s/s matches article_title
6 1 0 / -- 1980 2014 25 september 1948 0 right-arm medium guyana essequibo 0 right-handed beni sankar beni gopaul sankar cornelia ida , british guiana fc batsman http://cricketarchive.com/archive/players/24/24121/24121.html cricketarchive 1948 9 25 yes 22 0 0/0 1 beni sankar

beni sankar

beni gopaul sankar -lrb- born 25 september 1948 -rrb- is a guyanese businessman and former cricketer .
he captained essequibo in its only match , in the final of the 1980 -- 81 inter-county jones cup .
sankar was born at cornelia ida , in what is now the essequibo islands-west demerara region of guyana , but was then considered to be part of the county of demerara in british guiana .
he is thus the only essequibo first-class cricketer born outside of essequibo county .
sankar 's father , kayman sankar , who died in february 2014 , was an indo-guyanese rice magnate , who rose from a labourer to `` guyana 's most successful rice farmer '' .
beni sankar studied at england 's national college of agricultural engineering in silsoe , bedfordshire , graduating in 1974 , and entered his father 's employment , eventually becoming ceo of the kayman sankar group .
he was also a director of demerara distilleries and demerara bank , and in the late 2000s helped to establish guyana 's aquaculture industry , establishing 25 acres of fish ponds at his father 's property in hampton court .
sankar has also served as president of guyana 's private sector commission -lrb- from 1994 to 1996 -rrb- , president of georgetown 's rotary club , and chairman of the caribbean rice association .
outside of business , sankar has been keenly involved in guyanese sport , holding a pilots ' licence and serving as a president of the guyana table tennis association and as a vice-president of the guyana cricket board .
his first-class cricket career was brief , consisting only of a single match for essequibo .
the match was played against berbice at the kayman sankar cricket ground , named for sankar 's father and located near his hampton court property .
sankar captained essequibo , and , playing as a top-order batsman , scored two runs in the first innings and 20 runs in the second innings .
he also bowled a single over of right-arm medium pace in berbice 's second innings , conceding four runs without taking a wicket .
berbice won the match by nine wickets in what was essequibo 's only first-class match -- only the final of the three-team jones cup -lrb- later the guystac trophy -rrb- was accorded first-class status , and essequibo made the final only once , having defeated demerara in an earlier match .
the scorecards of the non-first-class matches played by essequibo are not available before the late 1990s , and it is therefore uncertain how sankar played for essequibo in other matches .
