Home team McGill trounce Windsor Forest CC by 151 runs to book semis spot

The action continued in the West Demerara Cricket Association-Beacon Café 50-over competition as Travis Persaud top-scored with 85 while spinners Abdul Razack and Kheshram Seyhodan spun webs around the Windsor Forest CC batsmen to book them a spot in the semi-finals.

McGill got their innings off to a good start with a 52-run opening partnership between skipper Sudesh Persaud and Travis Persaud before Sudesh fell lbw to left-arm spinner Dindyal Guyadeen for 16 in the eighth over. Troy Persaud and Travis Persaud shared a 36-run partnership before Troy fell for 8 lbw to medium pacer Abdullah Wazidali in the 16th over at 88-2. Travis continued to pick up the odd boundary and rotated the strike nicely as he brought up his fifty in the 18th over. He put together a 72-run partnership with Seyhodan before he eventually fell for 85, caught at backward point off the bowling of Avinash Ganesh at 160-3 in the 27th over.
McGill lost Diquan Murray (01) via run-out and Azar Deen (00) lbw to Ganesh in quick succession leaving the score at 168-5 in 29 overs. Daniel Basdeo and Seyhodan took the score to 184 before Seyhodan fell for 39 caught at long-on off the bowling of Ganesh. Basdeo and Prahalad Singh upped the scoring in the latter part of their innings, scoring 39 and 20 respectively. McGill eventually ended their innings at 247 all-out in 39.5 overs. Ganesh took 5-36 and Kishan Tracy 2-35 for Windsor.
WF CC started their innings nicely scoring at a run a ball in the first four overs of the game, but pacer Diquan Murray sent back opener Abdullah Wazidali (24) in the seventh over at 35-1. Murray then uprooted the stumps of Deoram Chanderbir the very next ball at 35-2. Kellon Tracy and Ganesh added some impetus to the innings as they added 42 to the score before Tracy (8) fell caught at long-on off the bowling of Razack at 72-3 in the 17th over. Seyhodan had Shafeek Deonarine (4) bowled in the 20th over at 84-4. Chris Nauth was run out at 91-5 in the 22nd over, leaving WF CC in a spot of bother. Ganesh held the team’s innings together, but eventually fell for 47, caught in the covers off the bowling of Basdeo in the 23rd over at 92-6. Seyhodan had Ansar Khan (1) bowled at 92-7 and then removed Kishan Tracy (1) caught at long-on without an adjustment to the score in the 24th over. Razack then returned to pick up the scraps, removing Dindyal Guyadeen (01) and Vikash Dudnauth (00) lbw, bringing a close to the WF CC innings in the 26th over of the game as they were dismissed for 95. Bowling for McGill were Razack (3-6); Seyhodan (3-27) and Diquan Murray (2-21).
McGill move on to 26 points as they stand at the top of Group B, with WF CC on 24 points and Zeeburg SC on 24 points.