TG Titans hold nerve to win Ogle Cricket Club tournament

A last-ball win from the Tourism Guyana Titans cricket team ended a day of intense action as the Ogle Cricket Club held a one-day Invitational T10 tournament at their ground on the East Coast of Demerara.
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The TG Titans, one of the four teams that formed part of the competition, needed two runs off the last ball to bring home the trophy and achieved it, much to the pleasure of their fans.

Set 81 to win by The Other Guys – the other finalist – the titans went about their batting methodically, with the opening pair of Fiaz Yamin and Vivian Beckles putting on 22 before the first wicket fell.
Yamin, playing the supporting role, fell for two, caught off the bowling of Steve Baul with the ultimate ball of the second over, bringing Guyana’s Ronaldo Ali Mohamad to the middle.
But when Ali Mohamed fell for nil to Nyles Liverpool three runs later with the score on 25, the Titans were beginning to sweat.
This brought the veteran skipper Annad Bharrat.
Together, Bharrat and Beckles set about rebuilding the innings, adding 46 more runs before the latter departed, caught off the bowling of Beepaul Bhandoo for a punchy 32.
Bhandoo would go on to complete his hat-trick with the next two balls, Marlon Bhole and Carl Kumar both falling for ducks as the Titans were really in a spot of bother, falling from 71-2 to 71-5.
Eventually, Akash Singh (2*) and Bharrat (39*) brought the game home, as the Titans registered the tournament win by five wickets.
Bhandoo finished with three for two from one over, with Liverpool and Baul picking up the other two wickets.
Earlier, the Titans bowlers, led by Ali Mohamed, restricted The Other Guys to 81 for 6 off their allotted 10.
Ali Mohamed, with 2 for 16 off two, along with Singh and Bhole, who both used their two overs to snag a wicket each with 13 and 20 runs, respectively, held their own.
28 from Steve Gaskin and 19 from Azad Ali were the mainstays of The Other Guys’ performance.
In the opening game of the day, the TG Titans crushed the Mystic Marvels by eight wickets and 3.4 overs to spare.
Opting to bat after winning the toss, the Marvels were almost bundled out for 68, the last pair holding on to see the overs out.
23 for Derek Persaud and 11 for Rickey Sargent were the top scores on the Mystic Marvels side, as four players failed to come off the mark.
Three for eight off two for Ali Mohamed and 3 for 11 off two for Bhole were the chief destroyers, with Akash Singh picking up 2 for 11 off two.
In their chance with the bat, the Titans lost opener Shayne Seebarran for a duck, which brought Ali Mohamed to the crease, and later lost Yamin for four with the score on 22.
Ali Mohmaed (56*) and Beckles (3*) brought the game home with 3.4 overs to spare.
In the other game, the Other Guys beat Bell Air Rubis by 11 runs thanks to a 43* from Kevin Boodie and a 10* from Sagar Hitramani, which gave them 80-4 in their allotted 10.
There was a wicket each for Mahendra Jeenarine, Raj Singh, Kevin Leitch and Riyad Latiff.
In response, the Rubis side could only muster 67 for 7 thanks to 16 from Andy Hall and 14* from Travis Persaud.
Hiteramani and Liverpool had two wickets each.