Permaul’s 8-39 leads Guyana’s fight back

Mar 21, 2011 Sports

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– but CCC’s last pair frustrate Guyana

By Sean Devers in Barbados
In association with Digicel, Queensway & Leisure Inn

A career best 6-39 from 21-year-old left-arm spinner Veerasammy Permaul engineered a Guyana fight back against Combined Colleges and Campuses (CCC) on the penultimate day of their Regional four-day contest at the 3Ws Oval here yesterday.
Scores: CCC 251 & 155, Guy 207 & 30-1
Permaul’s third five-wicket haul and second for the season resulted in CCC being dismissed for 155 after they were at one stage 69-4 and then 108-9 on a good track which offered bounce and turn for the spinners.
Off-spinner Zaheer Mohamed, in his second match for the season, supported with 2-23 as only Jamaica Nkruma Bonner, who scored his third first class fifty (62) and Rommel Currency (28) passed 20 with Bonner, who was last out, adding 46 for the last wicket with Ryan Austin who made seven not out from 79 minutes and 43 balls. Bonner’s 62 lasted 143 minutes, 130 balls and was decorated with six fours.
Set 200 to win, the South Americans reached 30-1 by the close with debutant Richard Ramdeen on 13 and Leon Johnson, with seven fifties at this level, on eight.
Guyana, who have at least 98 over to bat today, begin the final day 170 runs away from their first victory since they beat the Leewards in Trinidad last year in a match they must win to stay in contention for a semi-final place.
Ramdeen and Johnson, both former West Indies under-19 players, both looked solid after Rajendra Chandrika (4) seemed very unlucky to be given caught behind down the leg-side off his pad as Austin made the break through at 17-1.
Earlier, CCC resumed on 40-3, enjoying a lead of 84 and Kyle Corbin smashed Permaul to the cover boundary and then repeated the shot for a double to move to 502 runs for the season.
However, Permaul had the last laugh when the right-hander was leg before for seven as CCC slipped to 48-4.
Floyd Reifer joined Vincentian Currency and the pair took the students to 69 with very circumspect batting on a track which offered plenty of assistance to Permaul who operated from one end with Brendon Bess and Ronsford Beaten sharing the duties at the other end.
In sultry conditions, a spattering of spectators saw Currency, who added seven to his overnight on 21 in just over an hour of batting yesterday, pushed forward to Permaul and was taken at short leg by Vishaul Singh.
The 38-year-old Reifer who has scored four of his 13 First-Class tons against Guyana and four of his 12 Regional centuries for CCC in 28 matches (he scored eight for Barbados), pushed and prodded as Permaul bowled unchanged  for the entire first session.
Reifer, who took 53 balls and 100 minutes for his 20, was leg before at 97-6 as Mohamed removed the CCC Player/Coach.
The Off-spinner from Enterprise on the East Coast of Demerara struck again on the stroke of lunch when he had Jamal Smith leg before for two as the Guyanese bowlers again ‘came to the party’ with controlled work.
By Lunch Bonner was on 23 with CCC 105-7, leading by 149 runs with five sessions remaining in the contest.
After the interval, in conditions which had become overcast, Permaul struck twice off successive balls in the second over before Austin averted the hat-trick.
Carlos Braithwaite (1) was taken at silly mid-off and Kevin McLean (0) was caught and bowled as two wickets tumbled at 108 as Permaul, who played the first of his 31 matches against the Windward Islands in Grenada in 2007, was on a hat-trick.
The 22-year-old Bonner found a useful partner in Austin and together they frustrated the visitors with their last wicket stand as Bonner controlled ‘things’ in the middle with sensible batting.
Rain sent the players scurrying off the field at 13:45hrs with CCC on 136-9 with Bonner on 46 and Austin on five.
After an early Tea, Bonner reached his half-century before he was bowled by teenager Ronsford Beaton after pulling the lively pacer for four off the previous delivery as the innings, which resumed at 16:15hrs, ended at 16:40hrs.
Play on the final day today is scheduled to commence at 09:30hrs and scattered showers are forecast with both teams in a position to force a win.
The Guyana team were treated to sumptuous Guyanese food on Saturday night as guest of Guyanese, Doctor Pooran Singh, who resides in Barbados and invites all Guyanese national cricket teams to his home for dinner when they travel to Barbados.

Scoreboard
CCC 1st Innings 251
Guyana 1st innings 207
CCC 2nd innings (O/N 40-3)
O Phillips lbw b Bess                                0
R Currency c Singh b Permaul                28
S Thomas lbw b Permaul                         15
K Kantasingh b Permaul                            0
K Corbin lbw b Permaul                            7
F Reifer lbw b Mohamed                          20
N Bonner b Beaton                                   62
J Smith lbw b Mohamed                            2
C Braithwaite c Singh b Permaul               1
K McLean c&b Permaul                            0
R Austin not out                                         7
Extras (w-7, lb-2, nb-3, b-1)                     13
Total (all out off 58.5overs)                 155

FoW: 0, 38, 38, 48, 69, 97, 105,
108, 108, 155

Bowling: Bess 11-2-42-1, Beaton 9.5-2-31-1,
Fudadin 5-1-17-0, Permaul 26-11-39-6,
Mohamed 7-1-23-2

Guyana 2nd innings
R Ramdeen not out                                     13
R Chandrika c Wkp Smith b Austin             4
L Johnson not out                                         8
Extras (w-2, lb-2, b-1)                                  5
Total (for 1 wicket off 20 overs)              30

FoW: 17,

Bowling: McLean 5-3-8-0, Braithwaite 2-0-9-0,
Austin 5-3-7-1, Kantasingh 7-5-3-1, Bonner 1-1-0-0

Toss: CCC

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