Spartans, # 72 All Star join winners row

Action in the ongoing Upper Corentyne Cricket Association (UCCA) /Baijnauth 20/20 heated up as # 70 Spartans and the # 72 All Stars notched up wins recently.
At the # 72 all Star Ground, hosts # 72 All Star defeated their opponents Bomb Squad by 46 runs in their 20 over encounter. Batting first, All Star scored 129-7 with Sanjay Deochand 26, M. Bhoj 24 and Demetri Cameron 21 the main scorers. Bowling for Bomb Squad, P. Gobin, D Pooran and R Mohammed did most of the damage with figures of 4-19, 2-20 and 1-24 respectively.
Replying to the total of 129, the Bomb Squad batsmen were ironically bombed out for 83 with batsman P. Luen the only one to reach double figures with 23. # 72 All Star bowling was led by Garnett 4-15, Demetri Cameron 2-21, S. Gobin 2-16 and P. Chatterpaul 1-2.
At the # 70 Ground, Spartans defeated Guns & Roses by 4 wickets to secure their spot in the next round after bowling out the latter for 116 all despite knocks from Saheed Rohoman 30, Neaz Ali 35 and Brandon Mohan 16.
Bowling for the # 70 Spartans, M. Deochand 4-18, T. Ramotar 2-20, N Yacoob 2-20 and O. Kumar 1-17 were the wicket takers for their team who surged to118-6 in 17.3 overs with Tameshwar Ramotar 36, Akash Persaud 34, Taresh Ramgolam 23 and Chris Bollers 19 leading the way.
Omesh Mathura 2-20, T. Baichan 1-16 and D. Ramroop 1-14 were the wicket-takers for the losing side. The competition will continue on Sunday January 14th, 2018 at venues across the Upper Corentyne area.