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GT&T, Hand-in-Hand Inter-County cricket…Matches on today at Enmore & Everest

Dec 05, 2013 Sports

 

 
By Sean Devers
Fifty-nine years ago Demerara faced Essequibo in the inaugural Jones Cup Inter-County four-day cricket match at Bourda but in all those years Essequibo have never reached the final.
Between 1971 and 1990, the Inter-County Final was the only match in Guyana afforded First-Class status by the West Indies Cricket Board.
The British Guiana Cricket Board was founded in 1943 but its name was changed to the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) when Guyana gained Independence in 1966. The GCB is responsible for organising the tournament between the three counties and Demerara has opposed Berbice in every Final.
A few years ago a President’s X1 was included along with the County teams and today they take on Berbice at Everest in the City as the 2013 competition commences with two matches.
Defending champions Demerara face off with Essequibo at the recently refurbished Enmore ground on the East Coast in the other match scheduled to start today in a competition which has twice been postponed due to the inclement weather.
The sun was out over the last few days, but weather conditions could prove a key factor in both matches, especially the one in Georgetown and the toss could be very important today.
At Enmore, where the pitch should be low and slow, the slow bowlers should relish the conditions with spinners Amir Khan, Totaram Bishun, Zaheer Mohamed and Steven Jacobs expected to do the bulk of the bowling for favorites Demerara.
They should get support from pacers Trevon Garraway, Paul Wintz, Vice-Captain Chris Barnwell and debutant Randy Knights.
The Demerara batting boasts the likes of Skipper Leon Johnson who is just back from a successful ‘A’ team tour of India, the potentially dangerous West Indies batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan, the pugnacious Barnwell, Trevon Griffith, Rajendra Chandrika, Jacobs, the in-form Chris Patandin, Derwin Christian and Mohamed.
Essequibo is often referred to as the whipping boys of Inter-County cricket and today they will be keen for their first win since beating Berbice in 1994.
The team from Guyana’s largest but least populated County will be led by Anthony Adams with opener Royan Fredericks as his deputy.
Kevin Boodie, Ricardo Peters, Avinash Persaud, Herry Greene, Mark Tyrll, Parmesh Parsotam, Rajiv Balgobin, Rovindra Parsaram, Kemo Paul, Keanu Harry, Dellon Heyliger and Gilford Moore will all be depended on to contribute for Essequibo.
At Everest, Berbice will be spearheaded by Test opener and Captain Sewnarine Chattergoon, West Indies ‘A’ team player Assad Fudadin, Royston Crandon, the big hitting Jonathan Foo, Anthony D’Andrade, Anthony Bramble, Eugene LaFleur, Rajiv Ivan, Devon Clements, Kandasammy Surujnarine and Devendra Bishoo who has developed into a competent all-rounder.
Bishoo could cause the most problems for the batsmen while the lively Keon Joseph and Raun Johnson should share the new ball with Fudadin providing back-up for the pacers on a track which could offer some early assistance for the fast bowlers. Ivan, Clements, Crandon, LaFleur and Krisindatt Ramoo should offer spin support to Bishoo.
The strength of the President’s X1 is their batting and a lot will depend on Skipper Vishal Singh, Test opener Ryan Ramdass, Robin Bacchus, Shemron Hetmyer, Shemroy Barrington, Dominique Rikhi and Shaquille Williams.
The bowling could center round off-spinner Collis Butts, the son of former Test off-spinner Clyde Butts, Williams and national under-19 leg-spinner Steven Sankar. The hard working Kelon Carmichael, left-arm pacer Andre Stoll and his former National youth new ball partner Seon Daniels.
Both matches are scheduled to commence at 09:30hrs.

 

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