Demerara, Berbice record thumping victories

GCB/Hand-in-Hand U-19 Inter-County 3-Day…

‒ Seyhodan, Anderson impress

Demerara and Berbice both won their matches inside of two days when the Guyana Cricket Board/Hand-in-Hand Under-19 Inter- County Three-Day Tournament continued on Monday.

Demerara sustained their dominance over Essequibo, while Berbice and the National Select Under-19 upheld their unrelenting wrestle for supremacy, with Berbice coming out on top in this fight.
At the Police Sports Club ground, Demerara won by an innings and 106 runs, after declaring on 327 for 9 in response to Essequibo’s 106 all out.
Essequibo, batting a second time and needing to make 221 runs to make Demerara bat again, were able to make only 115 runs. Kurt Lovell top scored with 33, while Sheldon Charles supported with 25. Mark Ramsammy was the only other batsman to reach double figures — 11.
Kishram Seyhodan was the pick of the bowlers for Demerara, snaring 4 for 20 from 20.4 overs; Riche Looknauth, with 2 for 30 from 9 overs, and Ronaldo Ali Mohamed, Sagar Hatharamani and Raymond Perez, each took one wicket.

Earlier, the pair of Ramnarine Chatura and Riche Looknauth added 32 more runs to Demerara’s overnight score of 230 for 5 before Chatura was caught off the bowling of Joel Fortune for 40. Sagar Hatharamani was the next to go, caught off the bowling of Mahendra Persaud for 15, to leave the score on 299 for 7. Then, with the score on 323, Looknauth’s solid innings of 50 came to an end when Joel Fortune had him caught at long off. Essequibo then claimed their ninth wicket — Kishan Singh, bowled by Joel Fortune for 4.
Bowling for Demerara, left arm spinner Joel Fortune grabbed 6 Essequibo wickets for 74 runs off 22 overs, while Joshua Jones, Chanderpaul Mohabir and Mahendra Persaud each took a wicket.
And at the Everest Cricket Club ground, the National Select Under-17 went down to Berbice by five wickets in a low-scoring affair.
Resuming from their overnight second innings score of 5 for 2, the Under-17s found themselves in early woes when Junior Sinclair was bowled by Sylus Tyndall for 2 with just three runs being added to the overnight score.
Kevlon Anderson then joined Orlando Jailall, and they took the score to 30 before Jailall was caught off the bowling of Deon Sinclair for 6.
Rajendra Singh and Anderson seemed set to take the Select Under-17 to lunch without any further fall of wickets, but Deon Sinclair had other ideas, and within two minutes of lunch had Rajendra Singh bowled for 10, to send the Select Under-17 to lunch at 57 for 5.
After lunch, Deon Sinclair send back Lance Roberts, caught by Simpson for 7, to continue the Select Under-17’s woeful slide to 75 for 6. Kevin Sinclair then removed Pradesh Balkishun before he could add to the aggregate score of 75, then sent back middle order batsman Kelvon Anderson for a tangible 45. Thereafter, Keith Simpson bowled Ashmead Nedd for a duck, and without scoring, Mark Rankin was adjudged LBW to Kevin Sinclair, to close the National Select Under-17 second innings one run short of their first innings score of 86.
Bowling for Berbice, Keith Simpson, Kevin Sinclair and Deon Sinclair took three wickets each for 15, 9 and 19 runs respectively.
Set 86 for victory, Berbice initially found the target challenging, as Kevin Sinclair, Veramootoo Senwasane, Adrian Sukwah and Sylus Tyndall were dismissed for 20 runs. However, Javid Karim and Steve Deonarine took the score to 65 before Deonarine was caught by Khan and bowled by Junior Sinclair for 20.
Mathew Hardyal then joined Karim, and they carried Berbice to victory, with Berbice finishing on 87 for 5 from 38.5 overs. Berbice won the match by 5 wickets.
Junior Sinclair was the most threatening bowler for the National Select Under-17 with 3 for 25 from 14 penetrative overs. Kevlon Anderson was adjudged Man of the Match for his constructive batting performances of 39 and 45 in the match.
The second round of matches will commence on Thursday, when the Under-17s oppose Demerara at Everest while Essequibo will do battle with Berbice at Police. Both matches commence at 10:00 hrs, weather permitting.