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Clinical Jamaica beat Guyana by 206 runs
– Move within a match of the ‘double’ crown
By Sean Devers in Jamaica
In association with Digicel, TCL, Western Union, Pepsi, Smalta, Demerara Power Company & Michelle Playter’s Modeling Agency
Three-Day champions Jamaica produced another clinical performance to defeat Guyana by 206 runs in their 4th round TCL Group Regional Under-19 One-Day cricket match at the Melbourne ground yesterday to move to within one match of achieving the ‘double’ crown.
Kemar Marshall (left) and Akeem Dewar entertained the crowd with their 115-run 7th wicket stand.
Jamaica, led by a blistering 115-run 7th wicket stand between wicketkeeper Kemar Marshall (70) and leg-spinner Akeem Dewar (63*) registered the only 300 total in the competition (305-9 in 50 overs) as the expensive Seon Daniels took 4-61 from 7 overs.
Guyana were then shot out for 99 in 27 overs as only Jeetendra Sookdeo offered fight with 43 from 50 balls with 6 fours and a six. Off-spinner and Man-of-the-Match Jermaine Blackwood grabbed 5-30 for the home side. Pacer Jermaine Cole took 3-29 while Dewar finished with 2-11.
A solid 63 from 88 balls with 7 fours and a six from 16-year-old West Indies Under-15 player Ramon Senior had set the foundation for the destructive late order showpiece from Marshall (who clobbered 10 fours and a six from 38 balls in his pugnacious 70) and Dewar, whose explosive unbeaten 60 lasted just 37 balls and was decorated with 8 fours.
Inserted on a track with some pace and a parched and very rough outfield, Jamaica progressed to 14 before 15-year-old West Indies Under-15 left-hander John Campbell was bowled by left-arm pacer Andre Stoll in the 4th over.
Jetendra Sokdeo
Skipper Paul Palmer joined Brian Clarke and got going with a square drive and a clip off his legs for consecutive boundaries off Stoll on another uncomfortably hot day in Kingston. Keon Joseph again bowled with plenty of pace while Stoll, bowling a fuller length just around off-stump, supported well with the new ball.
Joseph, the tournament’s leading fast bowler, struck Palmer on his helmet with a nasty bouncer but the left-hander responded by smashing the next ball like a bullet to the point boundary. Another hostile bouncer followed while the next ball was again dispatched to the point boundary to bring the fans to life.
Palmer (19) then gloved a hook at Daniels to the keeper at 49-2 in the 12th over before Daniels also got rid of Clarke (20); caught at point 2 overs later to leave the score on 56-3.
Senior and Courtney Alleyne attacked Daniels and part time seamer Seon Hetmyer and aided by plenty of ‘miss-fielding’ on the uneven ground, carried the total to 70 before the spin of left-armer Anthony Adams and off-spinner Alex Amsterdam put the brakes on the scoring.
Alleyne (26) was caught and bowled by Amsterdam at 119-4 after the 100 was posted in the 26th over. Senior soon reached his fifty after lofting Adams over long-off for six and celebrated with a scorching straight drive for four past Adams.
Man-of-the-Match Jermaine Blackwood
Senior batted attractively on the small ground before he was beaten for pace and bowled by Joseph at 153-5 while Blackwood (12) had his stumps scattered by Joseph at 170-6 in the 39th over.
Marshall and Dewar then launched a vicious, calculated attack on the bowlers as soon as Amsterdam (10-0-32-1) and Adams (10-3-41-0) were out of the attack. As the heat and the savage onslaught took its toll on the Guyanese, Jamaica were presented with many free runs as the Guyana fielding got from poor to comical.
Marshall fought fire with fire and lofted the lively Joseph to long-off for four before pulling him disdainfully off the front foot to the deep mid wicket boundary off successive balls before being dropped at long-on by Jeetendra Sookdeo next ball, as the over (the 45th) cost 14 runs.
Marshall took 3 fours off the first 3 balls of the next over bowled by Griffith which went for 17 while Dewar, who was dropped by Hetmyer on 42, also put his foot on the accelerator as the pair treated the spectators to an array of scintillating shots.
The pair added 115 in 9 overs of entertaining cricket before Marshall, who deposited Stoll back over his head for six and behind square for 4 off successive balls, drilled a catch to Griffith at cover as Daniels made the break through at 287-7 in the 48th over. Daniels then bowled Nicholson Gordon for a duck next ball.
Another expensive over from Griffith saw Jamaica gallop past 300 as the last 10 overs produced 132 runs.
Guyana began their reply in positive fashion with Griffith, the leading run scorer in the 3-day competition with 406 runs hooking Gordon for 2 boundaries before Royston Alkins, promoted to open, seemed very unlucky to be given LBW off Cole for one at 12-1.
Sookdeo, for the first time in the series, looked willing to take the fight to the bowlers and along with Griffith carried Guyana to 33 before Griffith (15 from 11 balls) was given LBW to Cole although the ball seemed to be missing leg stump.
Sookdeo caressed Gordon to the cover boundary and then smashed off-spinner Jermaine Blackwell back over his head for a boundary as Guyana raced to 50 in 9 overs.
The largest crowd of the competition so far watched as Guyana lost 3 wickets for 23 runs after Sookdeo’s demise; caught in the deep off Blackwood for 43 from 50 balls with 6 fours and a six.
Amsterdam (13) was removed by Cole while Jonathon Foo, who left Guyana as the team’s most dangerous hitter, struggled for 24 balls for his 4 runs before he lashed Dewar to long-off as Guyana slumped to 82-5 in 23 overs. Hetmyer (1) also fell at 82 to Blackwood who also had Joseph (5) stupendously caught and bowled at 95-6 before the off-spinner wrapped up the match by having Daniels (1) stumped. This was after Dewar had dismissed Stoll (1) as Guyana failed to reach a three-figure total.
Cole (3-29) and Dewar (2-11) supported Blackwood for Jamaica, who last won the title in St Kitts in 2007 when they beat Guyana in the final.
Today is the final round and Guyana play Trinidad and Tobago at the Police ground while the host will hope to end unbeaten when they clash with Barbados at the Test venue Sabina Park.
Only a massive loss to Barbados today can prevent Jamaica from regaining the One-Day title.
Scoreboard B Clarke c Alkins b Daniels 20
J Campbell b Stoll 7
P Palmer c Wkp Bramble b Daniels 19
R Senior b Joseph 63
C Alleyne c&b Amsterdam 26
J Blackwood b Joseph 12
A Dewar not out 60
K Marshall c Griffith b Daniels 70
N Gordon b Daniels 0
J Cole c Hetmyer b Griffith 5
Extras (nb-1, b-1, lb-5, w-21) 28
Jamaica Innings
Total (for 9 wkts of 50 overs) 305
FoW:
Bowling:
14, 49, 56, 119, 153, 170, 285, 285 Joseph 10-0-57-2, Stoll 7-0-47-1, Daniels 7-1-62-4, Hetmyer 2-0-8-0, Adams 10-3-41-0, Amsterdam 10-0-32-1, Griffith 4-0-48-1
Guyana Innings
T Griffith lbw b Cole 15
R Alkins lbw b Cole 1
J Sookdeo c Senior b Blackwood 43
A Amsterdam c Harty b Cole 13
J Foo c (sub) Garvey b Dewar 4
S Hetmyer c Marshall b Blackwood 1
A Bramble c Clarke b Blackwood 7
K Joseph c& b Blackwood 5
A Stoll c Clarke b Dewar 1
A Adams not out 1
S Daniels c wkp b Marshall b Blackwood 1
Extras (nb-1, w-6) 7
Total (all out in 27 overs) 99
FoW:
Bowling
12, 33, 59, 78, 82, 95, 96, 97, 99 : Cole 4-0-29-0, Gordon 7-0-29-3, Blackwood 8-1-30-5, Dewar 4-1-11-2
Toss:
Result:
GuyanaJamaica won by 206 runs
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