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Georgetown capture DCB U-15 title, East Coast beat East Bank
Balkishun, Bookie, Nedd shine
By Zaheer Mohamed
Georgetown trounced West Demerara by 221 runs to capture the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) inter association round robin U-15 50-over title yesterday at Everest Cricket Club.
East Coast top performers from left Avin Gangadin, Robin Williams, Chandra Mohan and Pradesh Balkishun
Batting first after winning the toss, Georgetown rattled up 275-9 off their allotted overs. Alphuis Bookie continued his fine form with an authoritative 79, while Ashmead Nedd stuck 67. Bookie slammed nine fours off 86 balls while Nedd faced 75 balls and hit six fours and one six. Extras assisted with 41 as medium pacer Parmand Gootipersaud grabbed 5-29 from 10 overs while Sachin Basdeo snared 2-27.
West Demerara never threatened and were sent packing for 54 in 31.2 overs including 26 extras, in reply. Aftab Basheer made 20. Off spinner Andrew Persaud grabbed 3-11 off five overs including a hat-trick, while Jospice Jones claimed 3-14 for Georgetown who played unbeaten throughout the competition.
At Demerara Cricket Club, East Coast defeated East Bank by 130 runs. East Coast took first strike and posted 239-4 in 50 overs. Ronald Williams and Anil Singh (04) added 53 for the opening stand to set the tone for a mammoth total before Singh was lbw to Travis George. Williams gradually grew in confidence and shared in a second wicket stand of 50 with Avin Gangadin to further frustrate East Bank. Williams was caught and bowled by Jamal Michael for 41 (4×4,1×6) while Gangadin went for 31 (4×4). Danesh Ally (02) was the last wicket to fall for East Coast as Pradesh Balkishun and Chandra Mohan steadied the innings with an unbroken 73-run fourth wicket stand. Balkishun stroked six fours in a top score of 60 while Mohan counted three fours and two sixes in 43. Michael picked up 3-45 and George 1-44.
East Bank were routed for 109 in 35.4 overs in response. Navendra Persaud and Tuen Hicks added 34 for the first wicket before Hicks was bowled by Balkishun for 13. Balkishun then uprooted the stumps of Jeremiah Scott (00) to make it 37-2. Persaud and Daniel Scott gave their team some hope with a third wicket stand of 34, but leg spinner Byron Bissu (1-31)- also a national table tennis player, had Persaud taken in the deep for 19. East Bank never recovered despite a fourth wicket partnership of 24 between Scott and Michael (02) as Balkishun finished with 6-7 from eight overs while Anil Singh had 2-7.
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