Latest update January 15th, 2025 3:45 AM
Latest News
- Auditors given 5 months to audit Exxon’s US$19.6B expenditure
- Bar Association calls for immediate appointment of Chancellor and Chief Justice
- Gaza ceasefire ‘closer than ever’, Hamas says it is still awaiting Israeli maps
- Pigeons shut down Charlestown Secondary School
- One confirmed dead in Bartica bike accidents
Guyana end dismal series with loss to T&T
By Sean Devers in Jamaica In association with Digicel, TCL, Western Union, Pepsi, Smalta, Demerara Power Company & Michelle Playter’s Modeling Agency
Royston Alkins
Seon Hetmyer
Guyana ended a dismal 2009 TCL Group Regional Under-19 campaign here with a 6-wicket loss against Trinidad and Tobago at the Police ground yesterday in the final round of the One-Day competition to finish only ahead of the Windward Islands on the points table.
Electing to bat first on a good track in humid conditions, Guyana fell for 131 from 46 overs after a resolute 63-run 6th wicket stand between Vice-Captain Royston Alkins (33) and Seon Hetmyer (37*) rescued them from 41-5 in 17 overs. Skipper Yannick Carriah (3-23 from 9 overs), Sachin Boodram (2-4 from 9 overs) and Yanick Ottley (2-15 from 6 overs) did the damage for the T&T.
Trinidad and Tobago, whose only loss in the 6-team competition was to Champions Jamaica, replied with 133-4 in 30.3 overs to finish as runner-up ahead of third placed Barbados who lost to Jamaica in their final game. The Leewards ended in the fourth position. Nicholas Alexis top scored for T&T with 45 from 83 balls with 5 fours and a six and shared in a 4th wicket stand of 75 with Man-of-the-Match Ottley (31*) to see their team to victory with 19.3 overs to spare. Once the in-form Trevon Griffith (9 from 19 balls) missed a big drive and was bowled at 19-2, the South Americans never really recovered despite the 6th wicket partnership.
Griffith and Skipper Anthony Bramble opened the batting for Guyana who yesterday left-out Andre Stoll, injured Herrell Greene and Totaram Bishun.
Guyana lost their first wicket in the 3rd over with the score on 3 when Bramble was removed by pacer Teshawin Castro for a duck while Off-spinner Sachin Boodram, who opened the bowling and began with 2 maidens to Griffith, got rid of the left-hander in the next over.
Alex Amsterdam, who got going with consecutive off-side boundaries off Castro, was run out for 10 when Foo failed to respond to a call for a single and both batsmen ended in the same crease as Guyana slipped to 19-3.
T&T, hunting their 5th title since the competition began in 1998, struck at 33-4 in the 14th when Foo, who has looked a shadow of the pugnacious hitter in Guyana, laboured for 26 balls to score 7 runs before patting a tame catch to short extra-cover off Boodram. The manner of Foo’s dismissal again exposed his lack of mental fortitude in Guyana colours.
Sookdeo pulled Castro for a rare boundary in the 15th over and along with Hetmyer carried the score to 41 before Sookdeo (14) was bowled by left-arm spinner Kissoondat Magnum.
Alkins dropped on 0 and twice on 2, rode his luck and along with Hetmyer revived the position on a rough and fast outfield. Alkins hit Yanick Carriah for a six but was bowled next ball after hitting 2 fours and 2 sixes from 52 balls to leave the score on 104-6 in the 35th over.
Keon Joseph (0) was LBW to Carriah at 104-7 while Ronsford Beaton (11) and Seon Daniels fell in the space of a run to leave the score on 129-9. With Hetmyer unbeaten on 37 from 95 balls at the other end, Antony Adams (0) missed a big swipe and was bowled by Ottley as the innings ended 33 minutes before the scheduled lunch break. By Lunch T&T were 39-1 from 4.2 overs as Lewis, who smashed Beaton for 2 fours in the 2nd over, hooked Joseph to deep square-leg on the stroke of lunch. Aaron Alfred (who dumped Amsterdam for 3 consecutive sixes) was unbeaten on 21.
Following the interval, Joseph and Beaton bowled with genuine pace before Beaton unsettled Alfred (27) and had him caught at slip off a rebound from the Keeper after he had ducked into a quick bouncer off the previous ball to leave the score on 50-2.
Carriah (0) then edged Joseph to the Keeper at 57-3 as the T&T batsmen looked suspect against the short balls. Alexis lofted Adams to long-off with victory 9 runs away before Ottley and Akiel Cooper (0*) piloted their team to a comfortable win.
Joseph finished with 2-20 for the Guyanese who are scheduled to arrive home tonight after one of their worst performances ever at this level since Regional youth cricket was introduced in 1968.
Similar Articles
THE BLUNT OF THE DAY
Sports
Features/Columnists
Members of the National Assembly should exercise civility towards their peers
Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The following column was published two years ago in response to the same controversy that... more
Clarifying misconceptions about the Panama Canal
Sir Ronald Sanders (Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the US and the OAS) By Sir Ronald Sanders Kaieteur News–... more
Weekend Cartoon
