Young Chattergoon stars in Canada with five-wicket haul

By Ravi Madholall in Toronto

Apollo Cricket Club started off the 2017 Etobicoke and District Cricket League Elite 50-over season auspiciously after recording resounding victories over the past two Saturdays in Toronto, Canada.
In their opener, Apollo whipped Parkdale Cricket Club by 108 runs and then trounced Wanderers by a comprehensive six-wicket margin. Both matches were contested at Keele Top venue in North York.
Former Guyana under-19 player Harrienarine Chattergoon was the outstanding bowler against the Parkdale boys taking five for 18 from eight overs as the oppositions were dashed out for a paltry 83 off 23 overs. Chattergoon bowled his usual off-spin on a responsive track.

Apollo batted first and raked up a formidable 191 all out from 44 overs. Hamlet Gordon led the way with 39 while Brian Siewdyal hit 34 not out. Former Guyana youth batsman Farook Hussain and Trinidadian-born Mukesh Samaroo supported with 27 and 26 respectively.
In the other game, Apollo, in response, raced to 70-4 with 36 overs to spare thanks to a cameo 37 from Hussain. Only Marvin Hill with 20 was able to match his skills and ultimately gave the score some amount of respectability when his side could have only mustered 64 all out in 26-overs.
Right-arm medium-pacer Elson Bracken was the destroyer with fantastic figures of 5-18 from nine probing overs.
Rafique Nash grabbed two wickets for 14 runs from four overs for the losers when the new club, Apollo chased down the target successfully.
Meanwhile, manager of Apollo Anthonio Ramdass expressed satisfaction with the solid performances so far and is very optimistic the team will continue to dominate.
He stated the side is very young and eager to play positive and victorious matches in this year’s edition.
Only recently the club held a fund-raising activity (softball knock-out) to help off-set this year’s expenditure in the Conference Blue division tournament, which is expected to conclude late September.
Ramdass also took the opportunity to thank all who would have supported the venture and promised that the club will make an impact with the talented bunch of players.
The competition resumes this weekend. Meanwhile, Harrienarine is the youngest of the Chattergoon brothers all of whom represented Guyana at various levels while Sewnarine had played for West Indies at the highest level. The eldest brother Hemnarine would have also worn national colours for Canada. The other sibling is Ramnarine, who currently residing in USA.