GCB Under-19 Inter-County three-day tournament 2023: RAIN HALTS PLAY

– Berbice Coach confident of winning double

Heavy rainfall has postponed the Guyana Cricket Board’s (GCB’s) Under-19 Inter-County three-day tournament. Matches in the second round were expected to commence yesterday, Saturday April 22, with Berbice playing Essequibo at Everest and Demerara facing GCB Select XI at Enmore. However, the GCB announced via a media group on Friday evening that the matches have been postponed due to “heavy and persistent rainfall.”
In the opening round of the three-day tournament, Essequibo defeated the GCB Select XI by five wickets, while Berbice prevailed by nine wickets over Demerara inside two days. The dominant Berbice team were crowned champions of the 50-over tournament last week, and Berbice Head Coach Leslie Solomon, in a recent interview, said he is confident of Berbice winning the three-day title as well.

“We have to work on our running between the wickets and the all-round fielding. We were outstanding against Demerara, but we still need some fine-tuning in the field, and the bowling in terms of accuracy. The batsmen need to apply themselves more, bat in partnerships and put a price on their wickets. If we could get those together, we will go far in the three-day.
“I am very confident. The only thing that may affect us in the three-day is that some of the players may have CXC during the three-day matches, so we will miss a few players,” Solomon said.
In the opening round of this tournament, which is sponsored by the Government of Guyana, Isai Thorne and Aryan Persaud were recognized as “players of the match”. Thorne took 7-33 in the Berbice second innings, while Essequibo’s Aryan Persaud took 11 wickets across both innings against the Select XI.
See below summarized scores from the first-round matches in three-day tournament

Essequibo defeated the GCB Select XI by five wickets
SUMMARY: Guyana Cricket Board Select XI U19 scored 209 all out from 71.3 overs (Kevin Kisten 63, Ezekiel Wilson 55, Nityanand Mathura 27; Aryan Persaud 5-69, Myhiem Khan 3-29, Joash Charles 2-28) and 157 all out from 52.4 overs (Mathura 30, Kisten 28, Wilson 25; Persaud 6-53, Khan 2-46, Rajendra Ramballi 1-23) vs Essequibo U-19 134 all out from 36.5 overs (Shaaid Vieira 34, Theddeus Lovell 32, Ronaldo Schouten 21; Wilson 3-37, Matthew Pattoya 2-5, Chanderpaul Ramraj 2-16) and 233-5 from 80.2 (Theddeus Lovell 67*, Myhiem Khan 50, Shaaid Vieira 50, Persaud 28*; Hemraj 2-43).

Berbice defeated Demerara by nine wickets
SUMMARY: Demerara U-19 scored 122 all out from 50.1 overs (Rivaldo Phillips 57, Mavindra Dindyal 20, Lawrence Pellew 12, Shamar Yearwood 11; Jeremy Sandia 3-33, Jonathan Rampersaud 2-16, Isai Thorne 2-25) and 101 all out from 28.3 overs (Anthon Lim 42, Nehemiah Honenkirk 22*, Yearwood 11; Thorne 7-33, Rampersaud 2-22, Sandia 1-9) vs Berbice U-19 119 all out from 42.4 overs (Tomani Caesar 32, Rampertab Ramnauth 22, Leon Cecil 18; Krisna Singh 3-38, Dindyal 2-18, Honenkirk 2-22, Alvin Mohabir 2-31) and 107-1 from 24.5 overs (Ramnauth 53*, Hemendra Gurdayal 28, Zeynul Ramsammy 24*; Mohabir 1-24).