Clement “Busta” Lawrence Premier League 2019…
Georgetown Cricket Club all-rounder (GCC) Winston Forrester continued his fine form over the weekend by blasting a quick-fire 36 off 22 deliveries for his club, Atlantis Cricket Club, in action against the Jabza Cricket Club in the Clement “Busta” Lawrence Premier League 2019 tournament.
Forrester has now moved up the runs chart, having scored 210 runs at an average of 105, and is currently only a single run behind the leading run-scorer of the tournament.
In the Atlantis 35-over matchup against the Jazba, Atlantis won the toss and elected to bowl. Jazba’s anticipated start never materialised, and they soon found themselves at 55-5 after the first ten overs, with Joseph Brown having ripped through the top order and Guyana’s Ashmead Nedd having picked up a wicket with his miserly bowling.
However, unfazed, Saeed Janjua took the fight to Atlantis, and brought up his half-century in 57 balls, despite wickets falling around him. But just when it looked as if Janjua would have carried on, he was bowled by Triston Carmichael; and was forced to watch his side crumble, as Carmichael rallied on to clean up the tail and decimate the Jabaz CC from 96-6 to 143 all out in 29.3 overs.
Carmichael returned figures of 4-34; Joseph Brown, 3-24; Dillon Bourne, 1-33; and Ashmead Nedd, 1-17.
Need a small total of 144 for victory off 35 overs, openers Randal Wilson and Winston Forrester – the more aggressive of the two — dominated the weak Jabaz bowling lineup.
Eventually, with the score at 73-1 in the 8th over, Forrester fell for a well-played 36, which included 3 boundaries and 2 maximums. Randal Wilson and Yannick Elliot were however able to carry on, and ended the match in 16.5 overs with the score at 144-1.
Wilson top-scored with 55, and Elliot chipped in with 35, to give their side yet another win in the league. Quazim Javed was the only bowler to take a wicket, ending with figures of 1-36.
