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West Demerara beat East Bank to take DCB Inter Association U-19 title
East Coast overcome GT
By Zaheer Mohamed
West Demerara defeated East Bank by 6 wickets to win the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) Inter Association U-19 50 over competition which concluded yesterday.
At Wales, West Demerara won the toss and asked East Bank to bat after the game was reduced to 45 overs due to rain. Ryan Shun who top scored with 54 and Stephan Brown (14) rescued the visitors with a sixth wicket stand of 65 after they were reduced to 13-5. Shun stroked five fours, while Amir Khan supported with 26(1×4) as East Bank managed 140-8. Pacer Kevin Paul claimed 4-49 from 9 overs and Travis Persaud 1-16.
Tagenarine Chanderpaul
In reply West Demerara were 19-1 in 5.3 overs at when rain sent the players off the field. The home team were set a revised target of 62 from 20 overs which they achieved in 16.1 overs for the loss of 4 wickets, finishing on 64. Chandrika Persaud and Rickey Hinds made 16 each with the latter being unbeaten. Brown and Deonarine Seegobin had 1 each. West Demerara ended the tournament with three wins from three matches.
At Bourda, East Coast overcame Georgetown by 2 wickets. Rain caused the start of play to be delayed which resulted in the overs being reduced to 35. However, Georgetown who surprisingly omitted talented left hander Sherfene Rutherford from their starting eleven, batted first and posted 160-4 off their allotted overs. Tagenarine Chanderpaul and Anthony Bhupdeo put together 35 for the opening stand, but poor communication between the wickets resulted in Bhupdeo being run out for 10.
Martin Pestano Bell joined Chanderpaul and took the score to 45 before Bell was run out in similar fashion for 5. Georgetown then lost Andrew Gibson for 4 before Chanderpaul and Vishal Narayan featured in a fourth wicket partnership of 38 with sensible batting. Yougeshwar Dhanraj then removed Narayan for 18, but Chanderpaul and Kemol Savory made sure their team reached a respectable total with an unbeaten fifth wicket stand of 72. Chanderpaul slammed six fours and one six in scoring 74 not out, while Savory was not out on 36 which contained one four and three sixes. Kamesh Yadram and Dhanraj took 1 apiece.
When East Coast began their chase Brian Sattaur got them off to a positive start as they reached 30-1 in 7 overs when the rain came. Upon resumption they were given an adjusted target of 91 in 20 overs. Vishal Narayan and Devon Lord managed to pull things back with consistent bowling. Lord triggered a collapse when he had Sattaur caught at cover for 32 (4×4, 1×6) before Narayan sent Yadram packing. East Coat then lost a few more quick wickets before Ranjeet Hiralall kept his cool to take his team over the ropes with an unbeaten 26(4×4). Mark Hamilton was not out on 02 as East Coast finished on 94-8 in 19.2 overs. Narayan snared 3-17, Lord 2-12; Bernard Bailey, Steven Sankar and Chanderpaul had 1 each.
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