Egbert Stephens (born 15 April 1952) is a former Guyanese

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er who played a single first-class match for

Essequibo Essequibo is the largest traditional region of Guyana but not an administrative region of Guyana today. It may also refer to: * Essequibo River, the largest river in Guyana * Essequibo (colony), a former Dutch colony in what is now Guyana; * Esseq ...

in the final of the 1980–81 inter-county Jones Cup. Stephens, a right-arm

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, was born in

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in what was then British Guiana (now part of Guyana's

Pomeroon-Supenaam Pomeroon-Supenaam (Region 2) is a region of Guyana. Venezuela claims the territory as part of Guayana Esequiba. It borders the Atlantic Ocean to the north, the region of Essequibo Islands-West Demerara to the east, the region of Cuyuni-Maza ...

region). He was one of two Essequibo players from Dartmouth, the other being

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. In the match, played against

Berbice Berbice is a region along the Berbice River in Guyana, which was between 1627 and 1792 a colony of the Dutch West India Company and between 1792 to 1815 a colony of the Dutch state. After having been ceded to the United Kingdom of Great Britain ...

at the

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(on the Atlantic coast), Stephens opened the bowling with

Courtney Gonsalves Courtney Alexander Gonsalves (31 August 1950 – 31 March 2013) was a Guyanese cricketer who played a single first-class match for Essequibo in the final of the 1980–81 inter-county Jones Cup, and also represented the Guyanese national sid ...

in each innings. He took six wickets for the match, including a five-wicket haul, 5/56, in Berbice's first innings, the only first-class five-wicket haul by an Essequibian and the best figures of the match. Stephens dismissed four of Berbice's top-order batsman, including their captain Romain Etwaroo and future

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international

Milton Pydanna Milton Robert Pydana (born 27 January 1950) is a cricketer who played three One Day Internationals (ODIs) for the West Indies. A middle or lower-order right-handed batsman and wicketkeeper, Pydana played first-class cricket for Guyana for 17 se ...

, and also took the only wicket to fall in Berbice's second innings, bowling

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for a

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. While batting, Stephens came in tenth in each innings, twice remaining

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.Essequibo v Berbice
Jones Cup 1980/81 (Final) – CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 December 2014. 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 (later the Guystac Trophy) was accorded first-class status, and Essequibo made the final only once, having defeated

Demerara Demerara ( nl, Demerary, ) is a historical region in the Guianas, on the north coast of South America, now part of the country of Guyana. It was a colony of the Dutch West India Company between 1745 and 1792 and a colony of the Dutch state f ...

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 Stephens played for Essequibo (if at all) in earlier matches. Despite Stephens' performance for Essequibo, it was his opening partner, Courtney Gonsalves, who was selected to play for the Guyanese national side later in the season, appearing in two

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matches.List A matches played by Courtenay Gonsalves (2)
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 December 2014.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stephens, Egbert 1952 births Living people Essequibo cricketers Guyanese cricketers People from Pomeroon-Supenaam