ECCB/Double V Auto Sales/ Navin Construction 100-ball Competition continues this weekend

The LBI Cricket Club has marched into the semifinal of the East Coast Cricket Board (ECCB)/Double V Auto Sales/ Navin Construction 100-ball Competition, thanks to outstanding performances from Aaron Beharry and Ariel Tilku, both former youth inter-county players.
In a must-win game played against Golden Grove last Sunday at Fairfield, Mahaicony, ECD, LBI won the toss and took first strike, galloping to 167 runs for the loss of 3 wickets. Beharry had two partnerships, of 46 and 31, with Emron Mohamed and Richard Dowlatram respectively, for the first and second wicket.
Mohamed was eventually bowled by Orin Gardner for 16, and Dowlatram was stumped off the bowling of Kellon Stephens for 13. Nizam Khan came and went for a quick 13, before Tilku joined the well set Beharry, and together they put on an unbroken fourth-wicket partnership of 59.
Beharry’s 75 not out included 2 sixes and 8 fours, while Tilku ended the game on 19 not out.
Chasing a challenging total of 168 for victory, Golden Grove lost wickets regularly, and eventually ended with 104 for 6 off their allotted 100 balls. Skipper Lennox Andrews fought a lone battle, smacking 73 runs that included 4 sixes and 5 fours.
Tilku produced bowling figures of 2 for 29 off his 20 balls.
The semifinals are set for this coming weekend.