Elizabeth Styles U-21 cricket – Blairmont creates history with 1st Berbice title

Nov 20, 2012 Sports

After decades of coming close to winning a Berbice cricket championship, Blairmont finally broke the jinx when they defeated favourites Albion by 4-wickets to win the Elizabeth Styles Under-21 tournament.
Playing as a united team and spearheaded by a brilliant all-round performance by man-of-the-final Kevon Jawahir, Blairmont used their home advantage to good effect to completely outplay Albion, sparking joyous celebrations among its supporters.
Batting first after winning the toss, Albion lost Balchan Baldeo lbw to medium pacer Devendra Prashad for 6 to be 9-1 in the 3rd over but a solid second wicket partnership of 59 between Kandasammy Surujnarine and Veerapen Permaul allowed Albion to recover to 68 for 1 before Surujnarine was bowled by leg spinner Jawahir for 29 in the 12th over and without addition to the score Sharaz Ramcharran was trapped lbw by the same bowler.
Albion lost Gudakesh Motie-Kanhai 6, David Latchaya 0, Andy Mohan 0, Andrew Harripersaud 0 and Avinash Wajid 4 to find themselves in deep trouble at 92 for 9 in the 20th over.
Calm headed Veerapen Permaul 53 (6×4) and Latchman Bishram 11 then added 35 runs, taking Albion to 127 before both were dismissed in quick succession as Albion folded for 129 in 32 of their allotted 50 overs. Jawahir bowled superbly to end with bowling figures of 8-1-22-5 and received support from left arm spinner Waqar Hassan 7-1-23-3.
Needing to score 130 runs from 50 overs, Blairmont suffered an early loss when opener C. Harrinarine was trapped in front by off spinner Veerapen Permaul for 5 at 9-1 in the 5th over. However, skipper Devendra Prashad 37 (3×4), Parmanand Ramdhan 22, Dereck Narine Jr. 19 guided them 100 for 6 in the 33rd over before Jawahir 18* and Nick Ramsaroop 15* added 32 for the 7th wicket to lead them to victory.
Bowling for a visibly shocked and crestfallen Albion team, leg spinner Avinash Wajid took 2 for 29 and Permaul 2 for 23.
BCB Treasurer Anil Beharry recognized the historic nature of the Blairmont victory at the presentation ceremony stating that it was a positive sign that the Board’s effort of assisting lower ranked clubs was working.
He encouraged the Blairmont team to use the victory to aim for higher glory at all levels. Chairman of the Board’s Special Events Committee Hilbert Foster informed that in 2012 they have achieved a record breaking 160 activities/programmes and 25 cricket tournaments have been planned.
Foster expressed gratitude to the Management of Elizabeth Styles for investing in the game. Representative of Elizabeth Styles Bissoondyal Singh praised the BCB for organising a tournament of the highest standard and for promoting the Company’s brand in Berbice.
Singh encouraged the players to maintain discipline at all times and then announced to great applause that the sponsorship would be renewed in 2013.
Former BCB President Malcolm Peters also spoke while former West Indies Captain Clive Lloyd also met both teams during the lunch break.
Both teams and the umpires received Elizabeth Styles hampers while best batsman Veerapen Permaul, best bowler and man-of-the-final Kevon Jawahir were also rewarded with hampers. The champions collected $50,000 and trophy, the runner-up $30,000 and man-of-the-final $5,000 and a trophy.

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