Disgraced! Guyana crushed by T&T in three days

Mar 28, 2011 Sports

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Finish last for 3rd consecutive year

By Sean Devers at Providence
Guyana’s horrendous 2011 Regional cricket campaign ended in more disgrace for the home team who lost by an innings and 45 runs to Trinidad and Tobago in three days of their final round clash at the Providence Stadium yesterday.

Asked to follow on and needing 218 to make T&T bat a second time after they were bowled out for 216 in their first innings, Guyana lost five wickets for seven runs once Skipper Assad Fudadin fell at 138-4 and eventually crashed to an embarrassing 173 all out despite a fighting 48 from Leon Johnson.
Scores: T&T 434-5 declared, Guyana 216 & 173.
Once overnight batsmen Rajendra Chandrika, who fell 10 short of a maiden century and Derwin Christian were removed for 51, Guyana, who began the penultimate day on 137-5 in their first innings, were dismissed twenty minutes before Lunch as 27 year-old off-spinner Amit Jaggernauth grabbed his 14th five-wicket haul at this level (5-41) and leg-spinner Imran Khan supported with 4-66.
If Guyana’s first innings batting was bad, their second innings effort was even worse although Chandrika and Johnson put on 50 for the first wicket on a low and slow track but with no devil in it.
Eighteen-year-old West Indies under-19 leg-spinner Yannick Cariah snatched a maiden five-wicket haul (5-46), while Khan exposed the Guyanese incompetence to spin bowling with 4-45 to finish with 8-111 to condemn Guyana to the cellar position for the third consecutive year.
That only a handful of ‘die hard’ fans turned up at Providence yesterday was a good thing as most school teams would have been ashamed of the batting display from the Mark Harper Coached side which T&T Skipper Daren Ganga described as the worst Guyana team he has ever played against.
On a track which Man-of-the-Match Lendl Simmons stroked an unbeaten 204, the entire Guyana team could not match his runs in their dismal second innings performance as senior batmen Narsingh Deonarine, Fudadin and Johnson all failed to at least score a half-century.
Chandrika and Christian resumed in glorious sunshine yesterday morning and batted confidently on the slow track.
Christian, whose only century at this level was made at this venue against Jamaica two seasons ago, was the more aggressive of the two while the elegant Chandrika, who’s only other First-Class fifty was made against T&T in the historic Day/Night match in Antigua last year, looked solid.
Often criticized for impetuous shot-selection, Christian batted with a mature head in both of his innings in Barbados in Guyana’s last game against CCC and again yesterday he showed that he could play with a level-head.
The 27-year-old DCC Keeper reached his third fifty at this level from 76 balls, 96 minutes with eight fours before he swept Khan to short fine leg at 186-6.
Christian’s demise for 51 from 80 balls, 101 minutes with eight fours ended the promising 96-run sixth wicket partnership with Chandrika who gifted his wicket when 10 short of his century with his team on 189-7.
The right-hander steered a short ball from pacer Shannon Gabriel to gully after facing 227 balls, batting for 277 minutes and reaching the boundary 10 times.
Teenage debutant Amir Khan, who will leave on April 14 to tour Dubai with the West Indies under-19 team, was taken at silly mid-off as he pushed forward to his unrelated namesake Imran Khan for five at 197-8.
Brendon Bess, who did not take the field on Saturday due to a back strain, joined Veerasammy Permaul who lofted Khan for a six to bring up the 200 for Guyana.
Permaul was left stranded on 19 when Jaggernauth removed Bess (1) and Ronsford Beaton off successive balls to end the innings at 11:40hrs.
Asked to follow-on, Guyana reached five without in the 10 minutes before Lunch with Chandrika on one and Johnson on four.
After the interval, the pair featured in their second fifty partnership of the match before Chandrika (24) was leg before to Khan at 50-1 and Deonarine (10) was also removed by Khan at 72-2.    By Tea it was 80-2 with the 23-year-old Johnson seven away from his second fifty this season and eighth at this level. Fudadin was on one.
Johnson departed just after Tea when he hit Jaggernauth to mid-on to leave the score on 97-3.
His fighting 48 lasted 127 balls, 161 minutes and included six fours and his dismissal, again when well set, was a disappointing end to the season for a player who had set tongues wagging since he first emerged at the Regional under-15 level as a St Roses High schoolboy.
Fudadin along with Chandrika, Christian, Johnson and Singh were the only Guyanese to score fifties this season; all of them being on the placid Providence track and this is the first time ever that no Guyanese has scored a century in an entire Regional First Class season since the first Shell Shield tournament in 1966.
In 2009 when Guyana finished last, Deonarine (2), Royston Crandon, Christian and Sewnarine Chattergoon scored centuries while when the South Americans again finished at the bottom of the points table last year, Sarwan, Chanderpaul and Deonarine got tons.
Yesterday Fudadin and Singh tried to build a meaningful partnership with their team in danger of their fourth defeat this season as the T&T bowlers operated with attacking fields most of the Guyana innings.
But with the score 138, Fudadin (30) was caught behind off Cariah who then trapped Singh leg before for 17 as Guyana slumped to 143-5.  Christian (2) was taken at short leg at 145-6 off Cariah, while the dismissals of Permaul who was stumped for a second ball duck and Jacobs (4) who hit a full toss to short mid-wicket, both off Cariah with the score on 145 in the dying minutes of the day’s play when runs were inconsequential, emphasized the mental state of Guyana’s cricket this season.
T&T asked for the extra 30 minutes and Bess dumped Khan for six. He also hit two fours as he tried to get Guyana past the 218.
Khan (6) was removed by Cariah and without addition to the score Bess (18) was taken at mid-on off as Cariah finished off the match to spark Carnival-like celebrations on the field.
T&T are now second to CCC in the points tally and host their semi-final in Trinidad most likely against Jamaica, while CCC should face the Windwards at the Cave Hill Campus in the other semi-final. Both semis start on April 1, while the Final is set for April 8-11.

Scoreboard
T&T innings
T Maraj c Wkp Christian b Bess                        4
L Simmons not out                                         204
D Ganga c Chandrika b Permaul                      24
J Mohamed c (sub) Barrington b Beaton          67
S Ganga lbw b Jacobs                                       18
D Ramdin not out                                              37
Extras (w-2, nb-3, lb-2, b-6, Penalty runs- 5)   18
Total (for5 wickets declared off 124 overs) 434

FoW: 7, 79, 191, 224, 262,

Bowling: Bess 6-1-14-1, Beaton 29-0-2-69-1,
Fudadin 9-0-43-0, Permaul 34-6-97-1,
Khan 17-0-53-0, Deonarine 9-0-45-0,
Jacobs 27-5-96-2, Johnson 2-0-4-0

Guyana 1st innings (O/N 137-5)
R Chandrika c Khan b Gabriel              90
L Johnson lbw b Jaggernauth                25
N Deonarine lbw b Khan                         5
A Fudadin b Jaggernauth                         6
V Singh lbw b Khan                                4
S Jacobs c&b Jaggernauth                       0
D Christian c Cariah b Khan                  51
V Permaul not out                                  19
A Khan c Mohamed b Khan                    5
B Bess lbw b Jaggernauth                        1
R Beaton lbw b Jaggernauth                    0
Extras (b-3, lb-1, nb-6)                           10
Total (all out off 83.2 overs)              216

FoW: 52, 61, 82, 89, 90, 186, 189,
197, 216, 216

Bowling: Gabriel 13-1-49-1, Emrit 9-4-10-0,
S Ganga 8-4-10-0, Khan 22-5-66-4,
Jaggernauth 21.2-6-41-5, Cariah 9-2-36-0

Guyana 2nd innings (Following on)
R Chandrika lbw b Khan                        24
L Johnson c Emrit b Jaggernauth            48
N Deonarine c Emrit b Khan                  10
A Fudadin c Wkp Ramdin b Cariah       30
V Singh lbw b Cariah                             17
S Jacobs c Jaggernauth b Khan                4
D Christian c Mohamed b Cariah             2
V Permaul stp WKp Ramdin b Cariah      0
A Khan c  Khan b Cariah                          6
B Bess c Emrit b Khan                            18
Ronsford Beaton not out                            0
Extras (nb-2, b-6, lb-5)                            13
Total (all out off 75.1 overs)                173

FoW: 50, 72, 97, 138, 143, 145, 145,
145, 173, 173,

Bowling: S Ganga 3-1-3-0, Emrit 4-0-12-0,
Gabriel 5-0-19-0, Khan 19.1-4-45-4,
Jaggernauth 24-11-33-1 Cariah 14-1-46-5,
Mohamed 6-2-4-0
Toss: T&T
Result: T&T won by innings & 45 runs
Points: T&T 12, Guyana 0
Man-of-the-Match: Lendl Simmons
Umpires: Clancy Mack & Clyde Duncan

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