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Both teams disappointed with first day wash-out

Jul 23, 2011 Sports

By Sean Devers

Torrential early and mid-morning rain left the Bourda ground water-logged and although the sun came out yesterday afternoon the first day of the second round Regional under-91 three cricket contest between host Guyana and Jamaica was washed out without a ball being bowled.
The boundary edges looked like a small lake and with several areas in Guyana’s Capitol under water due to the heavy rain and poor drainage, prospects of play today on the scheduled second is bleak.
Guyana beat the Leeward Islands and Jamaica whipped Trinidad and Tobago to enter the second round as joint leaders with Barbados on the points table with 12 points and when the Umpires called off play yesterday at 13:10hrs there was plenty of disappointment for both teams.
Jamaica’s Coach Robert Samuels, the former West Indies Test left-hander said the first day wash out was a tremendous setback for his team.
“We did well in the opening game and to have to sit down all day and have no cricket is a setback since the reason we are here is to play cricket,” Samuels said.
“Rain is a natural occurrence and we can’t fight Mother Nature, but it is a big disappointment especially since in Guyana when one day is washed out it could become two and even three. We were looking to build on our first round performance but now we have to hope for the best for tomorrow (today),” Samuels added. Guyana’s Captain Ronsford Beaton was also disappointed and says since both teams came into the second round with 12 points a win here would have been help towards winning the title.
“We are disappointed since we did well in the first round and are on a high. Now with a whole day gone we now have to hope for some cricket and try and get at least first innings points,” Beaton, a first-class pacer who played for the West Indies under-19 on their trip this month to the USA, informed. Beaton said for the past few years Guyana have not been able to post big scores and the 317-9 declared against the Leewards was especially pleasing to him in his first game as Captain.
“Our bowling continues to do well and we have consistently dismissed teams for small scores in recent times and that continued here and is a good sign…Now that the batsmen are also chipping in we can actually push to win matches and we were really looking forward to trying to get full points from Jamaica which is one of the stronger teams in the competition,” Beaton added.
Beaton who made his under-19 debut in 2009 in Jamaica but lost his place in the team last year before making his West Indies under-19 and First Class debut this year said he got the full support of the entire team in his first game as Skipper and was very pleased with the all-round work of his team in the first round.
Beaton is the quickest bowler in the competition but like most of the pacers involved could struggle on the slow Guyana pitches to produce hostile spells.
“The wickets hear are very slow but you have to learn to adjust to conditions and I try to bowl with good control and hit nice areas to get an early breakthrough……You would not get much balls to bounce a lot and get catches to short leg or gully or even third slip so I try to bowl a tight line and look for caught behinds, bowl down or LBWs,” Beaton explained.
There was no play in the other match in Georgetown between Barbados and Leeward Islands at DCC which is about three minutes away from Bourda.
Jamaica last won the title at home in 2009 while Guyana’s last championship success was in 2007 in St Kitts.

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