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UG continue preparation for Barbados cricket tour

Dec 25, 2009 Sports

Lose back-to-back games to select team

The University of Guyana (UG) cricket team continued their preparation for next month’s Inter-Collegiate 20/20 competition in Barbados with 2 practice matches at the UG ground on Wednesday.
The students lost both of the games to a Select X1 captained by former Guyana 20/20 Wicketkeeper Tyrell Tull and will hope to play another practice game next week before departing Guyana for Barbados.
The UG side will be managed by Seivewright Benjamin and coached by former West Indies fast bowler Colin Stuart and will need to improve in their batting department if they hope to make and impression in the competition which includes campuses from Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago.
Fast bowling Jermaine Reynolds should spearhead the spin-based bowling attack and off-spinners Dhaniram Seepersaud, Richard Chaturia, Godfrey Thakurdin and Rovin Crawford could do the bulk of the bowling on the hard Bajan tracks.
In the absence of some of the UG students who play division one cricket for other clubs and have not been considered for selection, the left-handed Chaturia is the team’s most accomplished batman and will hope for support from Reynolds, Tyrone English and Pameshwar Persaud in conditions will should favor fast bowling.
UG has been fairly competitive in the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) 2nd division competitions and although their elevation to first division status by the Demerara Cricket Board has raised several eyebrows in the local cricket fraternity, there are several talented players in the side even if as a unit they are far from first division standard.
UG competed in the Inter Campus 20/20 competitions in 2006, 2007 and this year after missing last year’s tournament largely due to a lack of sponsorship support.
Tull, arguable Guyana’s best Wicketkeeper, has lost a lot of weight recently on his come back trail and allowed former Guyana under-19 Keeper Delroy Jacobs and ex-Guyana youth all-rounder Kellon Carmichael to share the Keeping duties in the 2 practice matches.
In the first match, Guyana Defence Force (GDF) player Marcus Watkins (himself a UG Student) batted splendidly on a slow track and rough outfield to make an unbeaten 72 and got support from GCC teenager Winston Forrester who seemed unlucky to be given leg before for 48 as the Select side made 177-4 in their 20 overs.
Reynolds counter-attacked early in the UG reply with 36 but only Persaud (17) and Clifford Osbourne (12) of the other batsmen reached double figures in sweltering heat.
GCC left-arm spinner Trevon France took 3-19 from 2.1 overs, leg-spinner Richard Kansinally 2-33 from 4, Demerara under-19 player Delon Fernandes 2-19 from 4 and ex-Guyana off-spinner Sean Devers 2-20 from 4 to bowl their team to victory.
In the 2nd game, the UG bowlers produced an improved performance to restrict the Select team to 131-9 after Jacobs (35) and fellow GDF player Travis Blyden (12) added 40 for the first wicket.
Thakurdin took 3-11 from 2 overs, Crawford 2-20 from 2 and Chaturia 2-33 from 4 for the hosts who crashed to 91 all out despite 28 from Persaud, 16 from Reynolds and 12 from English.
Kansinally captured 3-14 from 3.1 overs while Malteenoes player Devers took 2-14 from 4 overs to send UG crashing to defeat.
Meanwhile, the UG selectors have announced their 15-man touring squad.
The squad read:-Tyrone English, Dhaniram Seepersaud, Godfrey Thakurdin, Richard Chuturia, Melroy Stephenson, Jermaine Reynolds, Rovin Crawford, Javier McDonald, Steve Rekheram, Earl Fortune, Dwayne Dodson, Parmeshwar Persaud, Darnell Douglas Clifford Osbourne, Rudolph McDonald, Colin Stuart (Coach), Selverwright Benjamin (Manager).

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