Surujnarine, Baldeo put Georgetown to the sword

– 3 matches bowl off today

Half-centuries from Kandasammy Surujnarine and Balchand Baldeo left Upper Corentyne in a strong position over Georgetown heading into day two in round seven of the GCB/Jaguars 3-Day Franchise League played at Port Mourant Ground, Berbice.
Both openers continued their sublime form this season, with Surujnarine following up his last round ton with a solid 54 inclusive of seven fours and a six while Baldeo was unbeaten on 73 with nine fours and a six when play ended on the opening day.
At stumps, the Berbice franchise are trailing by 116 runs and are strongly placed on 131-1 from 27.4 overs after losing Surujnarine to spinner Steven Sankar (1-16).
Earlier, it was national off-spinner Eon Hooper who grabbed another 5-fer (5-58) and leggy Shawn Perreira (2-65) which helped to restrict Georgetown to their reasonable first innings total of 274 in 71.1 overs.
A gusty knock of 45 from 42 balls by number 10 batsman Travis Mohammed was Georgetown’s top score while other contributions came from opener; Shemroy Barrington (39), Raymond Perez (41), Kellon Carmichael (39) along with 28 apiece form skipper Paul Wintz and off-spinner Gajanan Suknanan.
Day two’s action will continue today while the other three matches in round seven will all begin at 09:30h. East Coast Demerara and Upper Demerara/East Bank play at Everest Cricket Club, West Berbice take on Lower Corentyne at Bush Lot while Essequibo will look to remain on top of the points table when they come up against West Demerara.