The East Coast team were crowned champions of the Demerara Cricket Board Under- 15 Inter Association 2020 tournament when that competition concluded its third and final round matches on Friday, February 7th.
The victorious East Coast Team
They were so awarded because they had the best net run rate following a three-way tie on the points’ table.
This was a fortunate development for them, as West Demerara had lodged a protest against the results in the match they played against Georgetown on February 3rd.
After the committee had met and discussed the merits of the West Demerara protest, a decision was made to award the match to West Demerara.
Because of the foregoing, East Coast, West Demerara and Georgetown were all tied on 12 points. However, East Coast came out with the best net run rate of 1.063, while Georgetown came second on 0.907, and West Demerara third on -0.784. East Coast were thus declared winners of this year’s competition.
In the third and final round of matches, Joshua Alves destroyed West Demerara with statistics of 4 for 6 to take East Coast to victory, while Dave Mohabir spun Georgetown to victory by harvesting 5 wickets for 12 runs.
At the Lusignan Community Centre Ground, West Demerara won the toss and elected to take first strike, but struggled to a paltry score of 24 all out from 16 of the allotted 50 overs.
East Coast started off their bowling with Bramanand Robindranauth collecting 2 for 11, while Alex Datterdeen took 3 for 5 and the most instrumental bowler, Alves, claimed 4 for 6.
In reply, East Coast raced to victory, losing only opener Josh Alves for 4, while the other opener scored 9 not out and Nicholas Shiopersaud top scored with an unbeaten 10 to take their team to the victory target of 25 from 13.5 overs. East Coast won by 9 wickets, while Nityanand Matura was the lone wicket taker for the West Demerara side.
Over at Everest, East Bank won the toss and chose to bat, scoring 84 all out from 44.5 overs. Opener Deonarine Dindyal top scored with 17, while Dhanesh Persaud supported with 11.
Dave Mohabir was the most destructive bowler, claiming 5 for 12, while support came from Joshua Walcott, John Persaud and Riyad Latif, who each took a wicket.
In reply, Georgetown blazed to victory as their openers Ryan Latif and Remo Deonarine scored 32 and 31 respectively to take their team to the victory target of 85 for 1 from 21.4 overs.
Dhanesh Persaud was the lone wicket-taker, as Georgetown won by 9 wickets. (DCB)
