Foo and Cush give Guyana second win

Jul 26, 2010 Sports

Cricinfo – Guyana had some anxious moments halfway through their chase when they lost three of their senior batsmen in 10 deliveries, but another cameo from Jonathan Foo helped them pick up their second successive win and virtually assured them a spot in the semi-finals. Their bowlers had done the job earlier in the day, keeping Combined Campuses and Colleges to a modest total, with offspinner Lennox Cush taking a hat-trick in the final over.

Lennox Cush

Chris Barnwell

The chase of 143 looked on track despite the loss of Travis Dowlin, Man of the Match in the victory on Friday, in the first over. Ramnaresh Sarwan and Sewnarine Chattergoon didn’t have too much trouble taking Guyana to 57 for 1 after eight overs – the only chance being a reprieve for Chattergoon on 10 when wicketkeeper Chadwick Walton grassed an outside edge.

CCC’s fightback started when Sarwan mishit a pull which was snapped by Nekoli Parris at midwicket after juggling it thrice. It was a similar stroke that had ended Sarwan’s innings against Windward Islands as well, and the Guyana captain was livid at losing his wicket. His mood didn’t improve when Narsingh Deonarine sliced a catch to extra cover in the next over. Three balls later, the set batsman, Chattergoon, also fell to an overhead catch by Omar Phillips at backward point.

Royston Crandon hit a couple of boundaries but he was soon stumped by Walton, and with Christopher Barnwell making slow progress, the asking rate sneaked up towards 10 with five overs to go. Foo crashed a boundary to extra cover in the 16th over to revive Guyana’s chase, before Barnwell smashed the first ball of the next to the midwicket boundary. Foo rounded off that over with a clean hit towards the sightscreen. Three more fours in the next over, which completed a forgettable debut for Rubel Brathwaite, brought it down to nearly run-a-ball in the final two overs, which was easily picked off with four deliveries to spare.

It shouldn’t have been such a convoluted chase after CCC had been kept down to 142. Following a 40-minute delay due to rain, the CCC openers made contrasting starts: Miles Bascombe hammered Cush for 15 in an over including a six over square leg as he raced to 31 off 16, while Romel Currency watchfully made his way to 8 off 13. Currency’s first attempt to clear the infield led to his dismissal in the sixth over, and Bascombe also holed out to midwicket after a quiet two-over spell.

Jonathan Foo

From there, the innings revolved around another substantial innings from captain Floyd Reifer, who battled his way to 49 despite a leg injury. A short ball was clubbed over the bowler Crandon’s head, and another was heaved beyond midwicket. As the innings progressed, Reifer found it harder to run between the wickets and started scoring almost exclusively in boundaries.

There were four fours in quick succession to push CCC to 123 for 4 after 17 overs. However, just as he set himself up for a final assault, Reifer was run out by a Sarwan direct hit and CCC could only make 19 runs from the final three overs.

The last over of the innings, from Cush, started well with a swipe over midwicket for six but the batsmen swung each of the next three deliveries to fielders in the deep to hand Cush a hat-trick, and spark wild celebrations. Guyana and Cush would have expected a simple victory at that stage but their batsmen were made to work hard by a spirited CCC team which for the second game in a row fell just short of victory.

Scores: Combined Campuses and Colleges 142 for 9 (Reifer 49, Cush 4-30, Barnwell 2-26) Guyana 143 for 6 (Chattergoon 25, Sarwan 29, Barnwell 21, Foo 23 not out, G Moore 3-18) win by 4 wkts with 4 balls remaining.

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Port Mourant Emancipation race meet promises to take racing up a notch

Photo finish camera to be in use

By Samuel Whyte

A massive injection of funds by leading business entities Banks DIH Limited and Digicel has all helped to make the Port Mourant Turf Club grand annual one day Emancipation horserace meet set for Sunday August 1 a special affair, that’s the promise of the organisers.

Apart from it being Emancipation Day, the organisers have promised to take racing up to another level with a number of exciting feature events. A multimillion dollar photo finish Camera is expected to be used at the meet in Guyana after a long time and is expected to help eliminate dispute, which has plagued close finishes in the past. With the photo finish Camera and starting gates in place, it will go a far way in eliminating disputes and controversies that usually arrives on race day.

Apart from that fact, over 10 newly arrived animals have taken entry to participate in the day’s proceedings. So far about four of those animals have entered for the main C class event. Some 55 horse have so far taken entry for the days meet which has seen Banks DIH Limited pumping over $1.7M into the event.

The Port Mourant Turf Club, which is one of the oldest in Guyana, is usually a sea of activities on race day for its Emancipation meet. Over $3.5M is on offer for the seven race event and Turfites once again are expected to once again turn out in their numbers to witness what is expected to be an excited day of racing.

Rehabilitation works which were being undertaken is expected to be completed early this week.

Beverage giants Banks DIH Limited has pumped over $1M in the feature C class event with the winner set carry away $500,000 over 1300M.

Digicel has taken charge of the Three Year old Derby for horses Bred and born in Guyana and the West Indies. $400,000 has been set aside for the winner which will be run over 1700M.

The Two year old open event for horses bred and Born in Guyana and the West Indies has a winning purse of $300,000 and the distance is 1200M. The E class event winner gets $250,000 with the distance being pegged at 1300M. The ‘G class and lower 1200M event has top prize money of $220,000.

The ‘I’ class race has seen $120,000 as the winning stakes for the winner in that division over 1300M.

The horses competing in the division 2&3 category will be competing for a winning money of $110,000 also over 1300M.

Entries were expected to close yesterday Sunday July 25.

Top individual performers will be presented with trophies compliments of Ramesh Sunich of Trophy Stall Bourda Market.

Further details can be had from Kris or Tribhowan (Turbo) Jagdeo on 322-0369, C. Ramnauth on 337-5311 and Lionel Moonsammy on 614-5812.

Horse owners are reminded that no refunds will be given for owners whose horses have entered to participate in the day’s activity and fail to start in any event. Race time is 13.00 hrs.