Akshaya’s all-round brilliance leads CICC to victory
WDCA/Beacons 50-Over Cricket…
In a weekend packed with action, Cornelia Ida Cricket Club (CICC) defeated La Grange by 123 runs in the West Demerara Cricket Association’s (WDCA’s) Beacons 50-Over competition played at the Zeeburg Cricket Ground, East Bank Essequibo.
Akshaya Persaud scored 32 and bagged 4-8 to help CICC defeat La Grange
Upon winning the toss, CICC elected to bat first, as most of the teams batting first at the Zeeburg ground have gone on to win the match. CICC went about their scoring in an aggressive manner, smacking the ball to all parts of the ground, and dealing in boundaries and maximums.
Along the way they began to lose wickets in succession, but that did not stop their aggression, as the balls still found the boundary. In the end, they were bowled out for 206 in 32 overs.
Vaickesh Dhaniram led with an aggressive 54 (3×4, 4×6), and was supported by Akshaya Persaud’s 32 (7×4) and Naveed Alli’s 28 (2×4, 2×6). Bowling for La Grange, Paul Shiwram and Tyron Carrington took three wickets each.
Needing 207 for victory off 300 balls, it was up to La Grange to break the curse of the team batting second and take an easy victory. But things did not start off as they would have expected, and they lost key wickets at crucial points in the game to leave themselves in tatters.
Junior Ramroop came to the crease and played a handy knock as he tried to stabilise the innings, but no other batsman could stay at the crease long enough to take La Grange over the line.
La Grange were bowled out for 163 in 35.1 overs. Top scoring were Jurmin Ramroop with 56 (7×4, 2×6), D Manwar with 26 (2×4, 3×6), and Greg Singh with 25 (2×4, 1×6). Muhammad Wazidali’s 5-31 and Akshaya Persaud 4-8 were just enough to take CICC over the line.
