Davis (7-25) befuddles hapless Guyanese as T&T win by 73 runs

Jul 29, 2011 Sports

T&T Left-arm spinner Derone Davis, who had 1-55 in the match, leads a vocal appeal against last man Gudakesh Motie at Everest yesterday. (Sean Devers photo)

By Sean Devers

Eighteen-year-old left-arm spinner Derone Davis befuddled the Guyana batsman on a last day Everest track with generous assistance for the spinners to claim a career best 7-25 from 25.1 overs to lead Trinidad and Tobago to a 73-run win on the rain-affected final day of their Regional under-19 third round three-day cricket match.
Davis, who now has 23 wickets in the competition, took the first five Guyanese wickets as the hosts set 153 to win were all out for 79 off 50.1 overs after resuming the day on 6-1.
On a day in which Barbados were bowled out for the lowest total (63) this year by Jamaica at Enmore, Davis grabbed his sixth five wicket haul and third this year as he ran through the Guyana batting line-up like a hot knife through butter to end with match figures of 11-55 from 41 overs.
T&T, who were routed for 64 in their second innings, collected 12 points, while Guyana had .3 of a point for the three wickets their Skipper Ronsford Beaton captured in the match.
Overnight rain left soft areas on the field and although the sun shone in all its brilliance all day and the Guyana players assisted an undermanned ground staff, the entire two first sessions were washed out.
After five inspections, play commenced at 15:00hrs with Guyana needing 147 from at least 30 overs and 15 mandatory overs in the final hour.
Night watchman Amir Khan and Kandasammy Surujnarine resumed and a fair size crowd which included several national cricketers saw Davis remove Khan (6) in the day’s third over to leave the hosts on 13-2. Guyana’s leading batsman Chanderpaul Hemraj joined Surujnarine on his home ground and urged on by the vocal crowd, took the score to 21 before Hemraj (3) was taken at slip off the very impressive Davis.
West Indies under-19 left-hander Kwame Crosse, with a half-century in the first round, arrived in sweltering heat but did not last long.
While Davis troubled all the batsmen with clever flight and spin, Surujnarine swept Jovan Ali for a boundary to ease the pressure while Crosse also looked positive before he was removed by Davis for 17 at 49-4. Dominique Rikhi lofted Davis over mid wicket for four but with the score on 64 Surujnarine (32) fell to Davis.
With the first five wickets under his belt, Davis might have had visions of equaling the record for most wickets in an innings at this level (10-6) held by his countryman Ravi Rampaul in 2002 when nine batsmen fell for ducks in the USA’s record low 12 all out.
However Idrees Mohammed, who finished with 2-23, broke the sequence of wickets for Davis when he had Rikhi caught and bowled for seven as the Guyanese slumped to 66-6.
It was soon 66-7 when Jomal Lafluer (1) was taken at slip as Davis continued to mesmerize the batsmen.
Clinton Pestano joined Anthony Adams who lofted Mohamed to deep mid wicket for one to leave Guyana on 68-8 and when Pestano (2) was taken in the deep off Ali at 70-9 it was all over bar the shouting.

Scoreboard

Gudakesh Motie and his Captain prolonged the agony with a 31-minute last wicket partnership but when Beaton (6) was bowled by the hyped-up Davis, Guyana had been bowled out in just two hours and 11 minutes.
This is the step below First-Class cricket in the Region and the performance of the Guyana, T&T and Barbados batsmen in this round is a harsh reminder of the inability of regional batsmen to survive against quality spin bowling for any prolonged length of time.
The new regulation to award bonus points for fast bowlers taking wickets in spin-friendly conditions and against batsmen woefully ill-equipped to dominate spinners, will, like it did yesterday when T&T’s pacers did not bowl a single ball in the entire innings, do very little to prevent the spinners doing the bulk of the bowling, especially for teams like Guyana and T&T.
The players will have a two-day break before the competition resumes on Sunday when Guyana face Windward Islands at Bourda and T&T take on Barbados at DCC. Leewards and Jamaica clash at Everest in the other fourth round game. T&T moved to 24.3 while Guyana advanced to 15.8.

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