Wins for Dynamos, Ogle Blasters, Cane Grove Renegades, Strathavon

ECCCC/Banks Beer 100-balls bash…

…semi-finals set for October 28

The Enmore CCCC/Banks Beer 100- balls Cricket Tournament commenced on Sunday last with four matches being played on the East Coast of Demerara. The preliminary games are being played in a round-robin format across four groups, with ECCCC Dynamos, Ogle Blasters, Cane Grove Renegades and Strathavon Super Stars all securing wins.

The summarised scores are as follows: At Ogle, ECCCC Dynamos defeated Young Rivals by 65 runs. ECCCC Dynamos registered 175 for 5, with Imran Hassan scoring 53, C. Surat 38 and B. Ramkelawan 29. Young Rivals registered 110 for 9, with I. Hassan and S. Jainarine each taking two wickets, for 14 and 23 respectively.
In game two, Ogle Blasters defeated LBI SC by 45 runs. Ogle Blasters scored 148 for 8, with Dion Thomas contributing 48 and Orlando Persaud 40. C. Seepaul took 3 for 13 for LBI SC, which was then restricted to 103 for 6, with N. Khan scoring 46, and Dion Thomas returning with the ball to take 4 for 16 from 3 overs.
At Strathavon ground, Cane Grove Renegades defeated Mahaica Cavaliers by 5 wickets. Mahaica Cavaliers made 89 all out, of which Charles Pitt scored 31. N. Mohamed grabbed the tournament’s first hat trick by taking 3 for 18, while Y. Umroa took 3 for 10. Renegades reached their target in 12.2 overs, with E. Todd scoring 42.
In game two, Strathavon Super Stars defeated Mahaica SC by 9 wickets. Mahaica SC were bowled out for 68 in 15 overs, after taking first strike. M. Willis and S. Mohan respectively took 3 and 2 wickets. Strathavon Super Stars knocked off the winning target in 4.4 overs, with M. Ronald scoring an unbeaten 61.
The 100-Balls Banks Beer competition will continue on Monday October 28 at Strathavon and Lusignan grounds. At Lusignan: Game 1: LBI SC vs ECCCC Upsetters from 10:00am
Game 2: Lusignan SC (A) vs Golden Achievers SC from 2pm
At Strathavon: Game 1: Mahaica SC vs Lusignan SC (B) from 10am
Game 2: Strathavon Super Stars vs Industry Stars from 2pm.
In other matches: The Neville Ramotar T20 semi-finals are also set for Monday at Enmore Community Centre Ground. At 9:30 am, Ogle CC will challenge Enterprise SC, while hosts Enmore CCCC will take on Lusignan East in the second semi-finals from 1:30pm.
In another cricket-related event, Chairman of the East Coast Cricket Committee, Ashmul Ali, was recently inducted into the USA Cricket Hall of Fame. Mr. Ali, who presently resides at Ogle in Guyana, had migrated to USA in 1978, when he first began playing for the Everest Cricket Club in the Long Island Cricket League (LICC). He subsequently became the LICC batting champion in the New York Cricket League, and scored 19 centuries in three seasons thereafter, before switching to the Queens County Cricket League.
After four years in the Commonwealth Cricket League, Ashmul Ali withdrew from the limelight of the LICC in 1983, and took Rangers/Cosmos under his wings. In 1999, he transformed Taff High School into a formidable cricket team, and they won the championship title in the Metropolitan Cricket League. Among his long list of cricket achievements in USA, Mr. Ali was the captain and Public Relations Officer of Cosmos for more than two decades. The team spanned the US, Canada, England, India and the Caribbean. In his three decades of service to the game in the USA, Ashmul has earned his stripes; he scored 865 runs, one of the highest in a MCL season.
He is often referred to as the best captain of the MCL team in its heyday. He served as coach of the MCL U25 team. For Cosmos, he has accumulated 14,310 runs with an average of 40.70, which included 18 centuries and 73 fifties, and took 390 wickets with an average of 17.20. He represented the United States against the visiting World XI at Shea Stadium in 1979; a selected New York XI against the 1983 India World Cup team at Mt. Vernon in 1983; the New York All Star team against a visiting Pakistan team at Flushing in 1987, and the touring MCC team.
He was also a member of the US team to Antigua, and against Canada in Freeport, Bahamas. He served as coach of the New York Region U25 team tour to California in 2000, and in 2008 as coach of the NYR U15 team to California. He has an eye for talent, and in retirement he continues to impart his knowledge of the game to the younger generation of Under-13 to Under-19 as coach and President of his beloved Ogle Cricket Club in Guyana – a place where he had spent his formative years, and in retirement he has chosen to impart much of the value, discipline, and enjoyment which the game had given to him.
Mr. Ashmul Ali is the Chairman of the East Coast Cricket Committee, whose primary objective is promoting cricket on the East Coast of Demerara.
Mr. Ali now joins Enmore resident Rudy Persaud who last year was inducted into the USA Cricket Hall of Fame. The executives of ECCC hereby congratulate Mr. Ali on his induction to the USA Hall of fame.