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GCB/GTM Three-Day bowls off tomorrow

Apr 23, 2013 Sports

 

 

By Zaheer Mohamed
The Guyana and Trinidad Mutual Fire & Life Insurance Company (GTM) and the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Under-19 Inter-County Three-Day Competition is set to commence tomorrow with two games.
The Competition, which will be contested on a round-robin basis, is expected to be keenly contested, and matches will be played at Everest Cricket Club, Wales Community Centre ground, Demerara Cricket Club, Georgetown Cricket Club, and the Enmore Community centre ground.
The second round is scheduled from April 28-30, and the third from May 2-4.
Two matches will be played simultaneously in each Round. In Round one the President’s XI will take on Berbice at Everest, while Essequibo will go up against Demerara at Wales.
With the likes of skipper Akasha Persaud, Ryan Shun, Martin Pestano Bell, Rajiv Balgobin and Denesh Mangal, the President’s XI should be able to post decent scores; however it will be exciting to see how they handle the Berbice bowling attack which will be spearheaded by their captain Shawn Pereira, Dereck Narine and left arm spinner Gudakesh Moti Kanhai.
President’s XI Left arm pacer Asif Ilahi performed well in the Demerara Cricket Board inter association tournament and is expected to lead their bowling attack with support from Nail Smith, Akash Jagroo and Shun. The talented Shimron Hetmyer heads the Berbice batting line up which also includes Nick Ramsaroop, Devin Baldeo and Parmanand Narine.
Demerara batting will be centered on Brian Sattaur, all rounder Kamesh Yadram, Andrew Gibson and Kemol Savory. Dexter George and Bernard Bailey are likely to share the new ball while spinners Steven Sankar and Devon Lord will look to put their names on the national selectors list.
One of the batsmen to watch in this competition is National T20 selectee and Essequibo captain Ricardo Adams. The exciting left hander is capable of holding his own in any given situation at this level and with former national U-15 captain Kemo Paul, Ricardo Peters, Mark Gonsalves and Shivindra Hemraj included their batting seems rock solid. Left arm spinner Herry Green and Paul Adams will spearhead their bowling department.
The absence of inter association\committee cricket in Essequibo does not serve well for the development of the game in the county. While some are saying that this is due to the lack of sponsorship, the board can make a better effort to give every player an equal opportunity to stake a claim for selection on the team.
Talented players such as Moin Khan, Tamesh Charritar, Satrohan Shiwnandan and Zameer Zaman can consider them selves unlucky not to be selected. Most of these players were not invited to the trials but have the ability to make any of the four teams in this tournament and it is depressing to see that these talents are not being harnessed properly. A better attempt should be made to field the best possible Essequibo team.
Representatives from GTM along with GCB Executives will meet the competing players at Everest at 9:30 to mark the opening of the competition.

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