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Khan spins Guyana to victory against L/Wards
Everest 17-year-old leg-spinner Amir Khan made an auspicious start to his regional under-19 career with an 11-wicket match haul as Guyana crushed the Leeward Islands by 8 wickets with over a session to spare on the final day of their first round TLC 3-day game in St Lucia yesterday.
Scores: L/Wards 141 & 131, Guy 209 & 64-2.
Khan, a former West Indies under-15 player, befuddled the batsmen with a clever assortment of leg-breaks and googlies in overcast conditions to follow up his 4-49 in the first innings with 7-45 from 20 overs in the second.
The Leewards, resumed the day on 73-5 with a slim 5-run lead and were bowled out just before lunch for 131, leaving Guyana 64 to win in a little over 2 sessions.
None of the Islanders’ lower order batsmen could cope with Khan, the leading wicket taker in Guyana’s GTM Inter-County tournament which was used to pick the Guyana side for this competition. West Indies under-19 pacer Keon Joseph, the only First-Class player in the side and left-arm spinner Anthony Adams, one of four players with previous experience at this level, supported Khan with a wicket each for the Guyanese who took an early lead in the 6-team tournament with 12 points.
Guyana reached 64-2 after being 24-1 from 6 overs at lunch as Herrel Greene fell for 12 after the interval.
But that was to be the only success for the Leewards as Dominique Ricky (17*) and the baby of the team, 14-year-old Brain Sattaur (11*) steered their team to victory with level-headed batting. An unbeaten 74 from debutant Kwame Cross in the first innings had set up Guyana’s first innings honors before the demolition job from Khan completed the victory task.
Guyana, who last won back-to-back title under Steven Jacobs’ captaincy in 2006 in Guyana and 2007 in St Kitts, will face defending champions Jamaica in their next match in Gros Islet from Monday.
Manager Alvin Johnson had told the gathering at the farewell function for this team the night before they departed Guyana that he had the ‘gut feeling’ this year that Guyana would do really well and promised Guyana’s Director of Sport that his team will give their best to win the three-day title and also the one-day crown for the first time.
Yesterday’s win was a very good start from Guyana’s teenage sporting Ambassadors.
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