GCB/Igloo Ice Cream U-15 Inter County tourney...Demerara in sight of outright victory against E’bo

GCB/Igloo Ice Cream U-15 Inter County tourney…Demerara in sight of outright victory against E’bo

Apr 03, 2014 Sports

By Zaheer Mohamed
Demerara are in sight of an outright victory against Essequibo in their second round game of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/Igloo Ice Cream U-15 2-day inter county tournament which commenced yesterday.
Facing a deficit of 114, Essequibo were 35-5 in 25 overs at stumps, batting a second time at the Enmore Community Center Ground on the East Coast of Demerara. Earlier, Essequibo were bowled out for 52 in 33 overs in their first innings after they were inserted by Demerara who replied with 201-2 off their allotted 43 overs; the five overs that Essequibo

Demerara wicket keeper Joshua Persaud is jubilant after taking a catch to dismiss Darshanand Indar off Ashmead Nedd.

failed to bat were added to the home team innings. Essequibo were off to a bad start when pacer Colin Barlow bowled Shane Wong (00) and Bhojnarine Singh had Darshanand Indar (00) stumped by Joshua Persaud leaving the score at 4-2. Essequibo then lost Arnold Adams (02), Vishal Singh (01) and Beesham Moses (02) in quick succession before Orlando Jailall and Govindra Gobin added 22 for the sixth wicket. But once Jailall was removed by Anthony Antonio for a top score of 23 (2×4) at 42-6, the rest of the batting faltered as Barlow finished with 3-3 from six overs, Antonio 3-5 from 2.4 and Ashmead Nedd 2-17 off 10.
Bhaskar Yadram and Reaz Ally gave Demerara a bright start with an opening stand of 46 before Yadram was caught and bowled by off spinner Beesham Moses for 29 (3×4). Punraj Koldhar then trapped Ally LBW for 16 (3×4) at 52-2, but Kurt Lovell and Alphius Bookie entertained the small crowd with attacking batting, adding 149 for the third wicket stand. Lovell ended unbeaten on 70 with eight fours while Bookie who brought up his fifty with consecutive boundaries finished not out on 66 (6×4). Koldhar had 1-14 off two overs and Moses 1-40 from 11.
Needing to score 150 to make Demerara bat a second time, the visitors’ batting crumbled once again leaving Demerara to get five wickets for full points. The impressive Barlow removed Wong (02) and Adams (03) to end the day with 2-1 while Nedd who has so far taken 3-12 accounted for Govendra Gobin (15), Indar (07) and Moses (02). Jailall and Vishal Singh are the not out batsmen on three and zero respectively. Today is the second and final day.
Photo as Dem- The star players for Demerara from left Colin Barlow, Kurt Lovell, Alphius Bookie, Ashmead Nedd and Anthony Antonio.