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Sep 15, 2009 Sports
Berbice semi-finals fixed for Sunday
By Sean Devers
West Berbice and Rose Hall Canje will meet on Saturday at Canje in the final preliminary round match in the Berbice zone of the Neal & Massy National first division 40-overs cricket competition to decide the zone ‘A’ semi-finalists.
The Berbcie Cricket Board (BCB) ordered a re-play of the West Berbice/Canje match which was not played last Saturday.
If the Region 5 team wins on Saturday they will be level with Bermine and Young Warriors with one loss each in Zone ‘A’ and the 2 semi-finalists from that zone will be decided on run-rate.
Bermine beat Young Warriors but lost to West Berbcie who lost to Young Warriors, thus nullifying the ‘head-to-head’ section of the playing conditions regarding the higher placed team.
In last Saturday’s matches, National left-arm spinner Veerasammy Permaul grabbed 5-22 at the Number 70 ground to give Albion an 8-wicket win against Upper Corentyne and the top position in zone ‘B’.
National Under-15 back-of-the-arm left-arm spinner Gudakesh Motie-Kanhai supported Permaul with 3-14 as Upper Corentyne fell for 97 in 31 overs.
Romel Dowlat made 27 and Deoprakesh Ramdat 24 for Upper Corentyne before Albion reached 98-2 from 15 overs to end the zone stage with one loss.
Rejected West Indies left-hander Narsingh Deonarine made 38, national Under-19 batsman Jonathon Foo 28 and Harrinarine Chattergoon 25. At Rose Hall Town, Renrick Batson smashed 9 fours and 4 sixes in his even century to propel Rose Hall Town Windies Sports Bar (RHTWSB) to an emphatic 196-run win against Skeldon.
Delbert Hicks, who stroked 5 fours and 5 sixes in his 81 and Michael Rengasammy (52*) also scored half-centuries, while national pacer Esuan Crandon, Eon Hooper and Terrance Madramootoo each made 20 as RHTWSB rattled up 337-5 when their 35 overs expired in the match which was reduced by 5 overs per side due to rain.
Skeldon were bowled out for 141 in 34 overs despite an attractive 77 with 5 fours and 3 sixes from Guyana Under-15 batsman Clinton Pestano.
The Berbcie Under-15 pair of Shawn Pereira (3-38) and Loyddel Lewis (2-15) along with Michael Cummings (2-25) conspired to orchestrate Skeldon’s demise as RHTWSB, whose only loss was to Albion, finished as zone ‘B’ runner-up.
At Cumberland, Young Warriors, who beat DCC at the Guyana National Stadium in last year’s National final, beat Police by 74 runs after making 224-9 and dismissing the Cops for 140 in 32 overs.
Farook Hussain (51) and former First-Class left-hander and national Under-19 Coach Hubern Evans, who made an unbeaten 44, led the way with the bat for Young Warriors as Harold Victor, Jerry Heyliger, Michael Newland and Rocky Hutson picked up 2 wickets each.
Michael Saul and Hutson each scored 35 as Davindra Ramoutar took 4-25. Former Berbice left-arm spinner Anil Beharry and Ex-West Indies Under-19 player Richard Ramdeen supported with 2 wickets each.
At Blairmont, the home team beat Edinburgh by 1 wicket after reaching 142-9 in 39 overs replying to 141 all out in 38 overs made by the East Bank Berbice side.
Denny David made 33 and Shafiek Khan 25 for Edinburgh as Karamdat Bissoondial took 3-19 and National fast bowler Brendon Bess 3-25.
Bess (22) and Bissoondial (20) returned with the bat to help their team to victory as Zaheer Hussain had 3-28, Khan 2-22 and Mark Sampson 2-17.
In the lone final-round game on Sunday, Young Warriors kept their hopes of a Berbcie zone semi-final place alive when they squeezed out 3-wicket win off the last ball at Cumberland to hand West Berbice their first defeat in the competition.
The versatile Keith Frazer continued his prolific form in the competition with a pugnacious 62 with 2 fours and 7 sixes as West Berbice made 182-7 in a match reduced to 25 overs due to rain.
Rajbance Hemraj (30*) and Arthley Bailey (38) also contributed for West Berbice as Evans took 2-26.
Young Warriors then reached 186-7 off the last ball in a nail-biting finish as Waheed Edwards led the run-chase with 76. He and Beharry (32) rescued their team from 73-4 and took the score to 170 before Beharry departed.
Hussain (26) and Wicketkeeper Ishwar Singh (21) also provided vital runs as pacer Colin Duke had 3-39 for the visitors.
While Albion and RHTWSC await the semi-finals, which are scheduled for Sunday, Young Warriors and Bermine will hope that Canje can register an upset win against West Berbice on Saturday to advance to the semi-finals without the calculator coming into play.
The semi-finals were scheduled for Saturday but because of the deplorable condition of the West Berbice venue last Saturday, the crucial game had to be re-fixed for Saturday.
This will prevent at least one of the Zone ‘A’ semi-finalists from knowing if they have to go into action on Sunday, until the afternoon before that important match-up.
Albion will play the Zone ‘A’ runner-up at Albion while RHTWSB will face-off with the Zone ‘A’ winner at a zone ‘A’ venue.
The winner of the Berbice zone will play the Essequibo zone winner in Essequibo while the Demerara winner will clash with the Berbice runner-up in Berbice. Both National semi-finals are fixed for Saturday September 26 with the alternative date in the event of rain being the next day. The final is fixed for the Stadium under floodlights on October 17.
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