The Rose Hall Town Pepsi Under-19 began their 2018 campaign with an easy 55 runs victory over the Ramnarine Memorial Cricket Club at the Kennard Cricket Ground. Rose Hall Town Pepsi were special guests of the hosts and upon winning the toss they had a bat in the game that was reduced to 30 overs per side due to early morning rain.
Rose Hall Town Pepsi reached 174 all out in 29.5 overs with national junior cricketers Kevin Sinclair 63 (4×4, 5×6) and Junior Sinclair 69 being the principal scorers while the talented Kevlon Anderson supported with 18.
Bowling for Ramnarine Memorial, J. Dipnarine took 3 wickets for 31 runs and Amar Ramnarine 3 for 16. In response, the home team was rocked early by hostile pace bowling of Kevlon Anderson and Joshua Wilson and found themselves at 16 for 3 in the fifth over.
Rose Hall Town Pepsi Under-19 Team
E. Mendonca (18) and Rawle Park (20) then featured in partnership of 39 for the fourth wicket while Dipnarine blasted 33 towards the end as the hosts were bowled out for 119off 25.3 overs.
Bowling for Rose Hall Town Pepsi Under-19, Sinclair completed a fine allround performance by taking three wickets for 18 runs, Kevlon Anderson 2 for 11 and Keith Simpson 2 for 13. Kevin Sinclair was named Man of the Match and received a pair of batting gloves as his prize.
Meanwhile, the team recently handed over a financial donation to the Berbice Cricket Umpires Association towards the hosting of their Annual Awards Ceremony. The team also handed over a trophy and a quantity of educational materials to the President of the Umpires Association, Joseph Simon.
The trophy would be used to honour Umpire Albert Sinclair for his success at the Umpires Association. Assistant Secretary of the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, Simon Naidu who is also a member of the Pepsi Team stated that the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club received a request from the Berbice Cricket Umpires Association and approved it immediately.
Meanwhile, Club Secretary and Chief Executive Officer Hilbert Foster stated that the donations to the Umpires were in recognition on their outstanding contributions toward the development of Berbice Cricket and the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club does not need any favour in return. Among the players in the Pepsi Under-19 Team are Kevin Sinclair, Kevlon Anderson, Keith Simpson, Sylus Tyndall, Junior Sinclair, Jonathan Rampersaud, Matthew Pattaya, Chanderpaul Govindan, Vikash Subramanie,
Joshua Wilson, Mahendra Gopilall and Jeremy Sandian. The Pepsi Team along with the nine other cricket teams of the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club would next make a donation to the Rose Hall Town Primary School under the Club’s Say Yes to Education Programme.
