Zeeburg Cricket Club’s Yutesh Avi Dhanpaul, currently engaged overseas in the Commonwealth League (CL) and the New York Cricket League (NYCL), added to his list of good performances over the weekend by leading his team to victory with a well composed 142.
Yutesh Dhanpaul and sponsor of the Bachan Cricket Club, Subas Persaud, owner of Dx Sporting Store
It was his fourth match in the NYCL, and Dhanpaul was leading his team, Bachan Cricket Club, in a match against the Long Island United cricket club. the Bachan team won the toss and elected to bat first in a 30-over affair.
Opening the batting for Bachan were Javed Karim and Steven Ramoutar, who were keen to give their side a promising start. However, Ramoutar fell victim to Alam Abdali in the fourth ball of the opening over, and departed without troubling the bowlers.
With the score at 4-1, Dhanpaul came to the crease, and rained terror on his opponents, scoring big at every part of the ground.
Despite wickets falling around him, he continued to play his natural game, and went on a rampage as he blasted a brilliant 142 in 93 balls, which included 11 maximums and 7 boundaries.
Dhanpaul single-handedly took his team to a respectable total. The only other high score came from Andrew Budhu, who scored a 43-ball 42. In the end, the Bachan team was able to post 256-7.
Bowling for Long Island United, Abdali took 3-47, while Malik Omar, Hardeep Singh and Ahad Sheraz bagged one wicket each.
Needing a mammoth total of 257 for victory, Long Island were never in the game, as they lost wickets at key intervals to find themselves in trouble at 61-4 in the 13th over.
And although Abdullah Siddique scored a resistant 57, no other batsman could make any score of substance, as Long Island folded for 178-9. Hardeep Singh (33) and Abdali (23) added some runs to the Long Island score, while the chief tactician for the Bachan team was Subhas Persaud with 4-18.
Dhanpaul, with his medium pace, was also able to add a wicket to his name, ending on 1-52.
