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Introducing Dr.Rohan Kanhai
WI_cricfan
2023-11-07 16:31:16
As part of its 60th Anniversary celebrations, the University of Guyana will be conferring on a number of Guyanese the Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy degree on November 9, 2023.
The university in a press release yesterday said that the awardees are Baroness Valerie Amos, actress CCH Pounder, cricketer Rohan Kanhai, Keith Waite, Bernadette Persaud, Frank Woon-A-Tai, Jeanette and the late Richard Allsopp, Joseph ‘Reds’ Perreira, Abdool Sattaur Gafoor, and Kenneth Singh. Baroness Amos will address the graduation on November 10th at 10 am at the University’s 3rd graduation ceremony.
googley
2023-11-07 16:38:37
In reply to WI_cricfan
I guess Doosie will finally get a chance to meet his hero! 
doosra
2023-11-07 17:28:18
In reply to googley
i met him once before, briefly....sometime back in the 90s at Bourda...he was chatting with a young Shiv
I played this backfoot coverdrive once in in my life in high school and that was the peak of my Kanhaiesque aspirations...memories for a lifetime
Narper
2023-11-07 17:50:40
In reply to googley
Did you see Reds [Perreira] getting his doctorate too.
I say honour de babu by putting his name up at Providence stadium.
I doubt de babu is well enough to travel to mudland
tc1
2023-11-07 17:50:46
In reply to doosra
I thought you played the sweep shot on your behind and hit the stumps.
doosra
2023-11-07 18:00:42
In reply to tc1
i could not sweep to save my life...well except if it was the yard
sgtdjones
2023-11-07 19:13:28
In reply to Narper
So doostra not awarded such honors?
Me thinks Googley should be honorary doctor of pujas..
better call Ali , Narps , you gats pull...
CricSham
2023-11-07 19:17:36
In reply to WI_cricfan
Awesome, and well-deserved too. Kudos to the Babu. Thought of him and the WI team when I was in Kanpur. I was wondering what the city looked like in 1958!
BTW honorariums do not use the title of Dr.
Yes, my bro Dukes must be on cloud nine. We haven't seen him lately???
googley
2023-11-07 19:21:40
In reply to Narper
Last event he attended that was reported by the press was the Lawrence Rowe charity game in fort lauderdale. I will find if he doing well
googley
2023-11-07 19:22:30
In reply to sgtdjones
You just can't help yourself, eh
openning
2023-11-07 19:22:47
In reply to doosra
Are they any living Guyanese national heroes?
Sir Viv Antigua
Sir Gary Barbados
Sir Clive
Sir Andy
Sir Wes
Sir Gordon
Sir Charlie
Rohan should be look after, he is the only person I every saw, stopped traffic in Bridgetown.
Narper
2023-11-07 19:24:53
In reply to googley
What year was that?
I would like a photo of what he looks like today.
I look at Garry Sobers on TV today...and then realizes de babu is just as old....but I have is 40 plus babu image in my head
googley
2023-11-07 19:25:16
In reply to openning
Lance Gibbs!!
Narper
2023-11-07 19:27:17
In reply to googley
Joe Solomon alive?
googley
2023-11-07 19:28:46
In reply to Narper
He is...and lives in New York. I believe
openning
2023-11-07 19:28:50
In reply to googley
Rohan deserves it also, 55 years later, I still remember seeing traffic stopped in the middle of the street,people rushing just to touch the great man.
CricSham
2023-11-07 19:35:47
In reply to googley
Correct he does live in New York and I think he recently celebrated his 90th.
openning
2023-11-07 19:46:19
In reply to Narper
Joe Solomon alive?
One of my childhood heroes, My batting mirrored Joe's.
Fon memory of the tie test.
doosra
2023-11-07 19:47:29
In reply to CricSham
Uncle Joe is 93
doosra
2023-11-07 19:48:16
In reply to openning
For cricket it would be all those and many more 
and other heroes of course
doosra
2023-11-07 19:59:19
In reply to sgtdjones
we a mere mortals sarge. we nah qualify
CricSham
2023-11-07 20:06:16
In reply to doosra
Thanks. I remember seeing some thing and he turned 90 but I guess that was a few years ago.
Chrissy
2023-11-07 20:08:00
In reply to doosra
I chaired a WC symposium with RBK and others in 2007 and was lucky enough to have met him way back when.
I have adored him since childhood.
XFactor
2023-11-07 20:12:24
In reply to WI_cricfan
He absolutely deserves the accolade.
Kudos to Dr. Rohan Kanhai!!
googley
2023-11-07 20:54:13
In reply to Narper
What year was that?
I believe 2016. I remembered he and Gibbs were always close to the bar in most of the photos taken.
Brerzerk
2023-11-07 21:58:22
At least 40-50yrs late. JA should also bestow on him one of the highest honors that can be given to a non-national.
doosra
2023-11-07 22:37:16
In reply to Brerzerk
Meanwhile the big ones at the top still think red, green, and orange are more significant names than Kanhai, Lloyd, et al...
googley
2023-11-08 00:00:09
In reply to doosra
I have a sneaky feeling that the first international cricket ground in Guyana will be after a politician, not a cricketing hero. I maybe wrong but I have a hunch!
doosra
2023-11-08 00:28:36
In reply to googley
if that guy had his way he would name the country after himself lol
Drapsey
2023-11-08 02:29:50
When I was a kid all I wanted was to be like Kanhai the Great Wicketkeeper.
sgtdjones
2023-11-08 03:25:18
In reply to googley
You just can't help yourself, eh
Some people sure can get their dhoti in a knot...huh?
SnoopDog
2023-11-08 19:39:39
In reply to googley
I believe 2016. I remembered he and Gibbs were always close to the bar in most of the photos taken.
Rodney Marsh retold a story of how he, RBK, Kalli, and Lillee were all drinking at a pub before the infamous 1975 WC group match.
Marsh and Lillee told Kanhai that the Aussies were hoping that they get him out cheaply to which Kanhai told them "don't worry about me, worry about that little so and so (pointing to Kalli)".
And sure enough, Kalli would go on to maul Lillee for 35 off one over during that match.
Players of that era would drink together at the pubs quite often - especially during county season.
googley
2023-11-08 19:56:45
In reply to SnoopDog
I heard that story. Kalli said when he walked in to bat and saw Lille, he recalled the incident from the night before and played well enough to live up to Rohan's prediction.
googley
2023-11-08 20:02:17
In reply to sgtdjones
Some people sure can get their dhoti in a knot
You know what happens when you don't tie one's dhoti with a proper knot? It falls down!!!!!
googley
2023-11-08 20:31:15
In reply to SnoopDog
Here is the link to that incident
SnoopDog
2023-11-08 20:38:35
In reply to googley
Yeah Bro.
Dem men would beat the bottle then go out next morning and beat ball.
Nowadays dem men go out next morning and just get beat.
googley
2023-11-09 17:17:50
In reply to SnoopDog
Bro, Dr. Kanhai was practicing "medicines" long before he got the degree!!
Once he was inside the dressing room, Sobers told Kanhai that his stomach was ‘giving him hell’. “The only thing that’ll help me now is a port and brandy mixed,” was his self healing prescription. As Keith Boyce walked out to join Julien, the drink was prepared and he downed it in one gulp. Kanhai looked at him and called, “Bring him another brandy and port. But make it a big one this time.”
sgtdjones
2023-11-09 17:28:05
In reply to SnoopDog/googley
Nowadays dem men go out next morning and just get beat.
Just like em muddies curried eagles , yesterday..ah tell ya...
I would change my citizenship if I was a muddy...tsk, tsk...
