It was my dream to get a hundred – Rutherford

By Akeem Greene

Rising star Sherfane Rutherford is still dreading not scoring his maiden First-Class century when given the golden opportunity in Guyana Jaguars’ final match of Cricket West Indies (CWI)/Digicel Four Day Championship against Trinidad and Tobago Red Force on Sunday but it still happy the season was of monumental learning value.

The pugnacious left-handed batsman scored a breath-taking 93 when he agonizingly inside-edged seamer Daniel St. Clair unto his stumps.
“It was my dream to get a hundred. It is a bit painful but I will just try to get over it and look ahead. A bit nerves kicked in and I told myself I’ll look to get out of the 90s very fast but it didn’t go the way I wanted,” he conveyed to Guyana Times Sport.
Throughout the season, the 19 year-old talent from the Demerara Cricket Club showed he has the ingredients to have a long and fruitful career. His tally of 22 wickets was the second best by a seamer in the squad. Keemo Paul led with 42 wickets.
The distinct improvement with the player new found adeptness of situational awareness, since he has to pocket his aggression when needed and apply the willow for the long haul. It corresponded in his nine matches yielding 343 runs at an average of 38.11.
“It’s all about the situation, some matches you go and the team is in a good position and I just free my mind and look to score fast and there are matches where it is tight and I just have to battle through the situation.”He added, “It was very good season I cannot complain but there are still some areas to work on but the season was very good and I just look forward for better.”
Revealing those areas of improvement are converting his starts and gathering greater consistency with the ball, the player with just 10 First-Class matches under his belt felt with more exposure the development will occur.
Given the batting strength of the four-time champions, the man from Enmore on the East Coast of Demerara got his opportunity at number eight for most matches but he is full on the fact that he is more a batting all-rounder.
“I’m a batting all-rounder but when you check the team there is a lot of batsmen so I just have to play my role in the lower-order and help the team.”
With selection on the Super50 squad for next week’s regional tournament which will be held in Barbados and Antigua, the explosive Rutherford plans on ‘going big’ in a format he favours and held his franchise achieve the ‘double’ in titles.