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Raj Singh Inter-County U-19 cricket …Birthday boy shines with bat & ball for B’ce
Nat-U-17s lose by 10 Wkts in two days
By Sean Devers
Kassim Khan celebrated his 18th birthday yesterday with a Man-of-the-Match
Man of the Match Kassim Khan in action with the ball at Wales yesterday.
performance to lead Berbice to an emphatic 10-wicket win inside two days against the National under-17 team in the opening round of the Raj Singh Insurance three U-19 Competition at the Wales Community Centre ground in West Bank Demerara.
Khan made an undefeated 59 with eight fours and a six to spearheaded Berbice, who resumed on their first day score of 136-6 in response to the U-17s paltry 94 and progressed to 214 all out as he shared in a 54-run eighth wicket stand with Parmanand Ramdhan, who stroked eight fours and two sixes in 51.
Khan, who had 2-9 in the first innings, returned with his left-arm spin to capture 4-35 and got support from another ‘birthday boy’ Balchand Baldeo (3-18) and Ramdhan (2-24) as the National U-17s, behind by 119 runs reached 121 in their second innings just before the close despite 42 from Adrian Sukhwa and 30 with five fours from Skipper Mohamed.
Set two runs to win, the lads from the Ancient County wasted little time formalizing the win with rain threatening to intervene today, the scheduled final day. Left-handed opener Leon Andrews,
Adrian Sukhwa pulls during his 42 for the National U-17s at Wales.
who made an attractive 33 in the first innings, clipped pacer Renaldo Mohamed to the mid-wicket boundary off the first ball to seal the outright win for Berbice.
Scores: Nat U-17s (94 & 121) Berbice 214 & 2-1)
When they began yesterday under overcast skies, Ramdhan and Khan both registered fifties to take the score to 170 before Timothy McCalmont trapped Ramdhan LBW, while off-spinner Richie Looknauth (3-33) quickly removed Daniel Lewis (3) and Ameer Khan (5) to leave the score on 203-9. Grisean Grant (3) was then bowled by Asif Ali to leave Khan stranded on 59. McCalmont (3-42) and Silus Tyndal (2-34) offered excellent back up to Looknauth, who was reported by the Umpires for bowling with a suspect action to match referee, former Test Pacer Colin Stuart.
Rain stopped play after 1.1 overs in the U-17s second innings at 11:19 hrs with the score on 5-0 and an early lunch was taken.
After the interval Raymond Perez was bowled for a duck by off-spinner Baldeo who opened
Joshua Persaud about to be caught at cover off Khan at Wales yesterday.
the bowling with Grant, the only fast bowler used by Berbice in the spin biased attack and the U-17s were 5-1.
Joshua Persaud (13) was just beginning to look good when he drove Khan to cover to leave his team on 34-2 before McCalmont (10) and Sukhwa took the score to 60 but Khan got rid of McCalmont and Kevin St Clair (6) in the space of six runs as the U-17s slipped to 66-4.
Ramdhan bowled Sukhwa at 81-5, while Ramnarine Chatura (7) was taken at gully as Ramdhan struck twice in quick succession to leave the score on 92-6. Mohamed grew in confidence the longer he batted and favored the back cut as Khan and Ramdhan, bowling in tandem, bowled too flat and short to him.
After he had reached the ropes five times and was looking set for something major he edged one that was too close to cut and was caught behind off Baldeo at 112-7 and with a handful of fans watching the last three wickets tumbled for 11 runs as the U-17s just managed to avoid the embarrassment of an innings defeat.
The next round is scheduled to commence on Sunday when both second round matches will be played in the City. Defending Champions Demerara face a Berbice line-up strengthened by the return of West Indies youth player Shemron Hetmyer at Bourda, while Essequibo and the U-17s, who will include left-arm spinner Ashmead Nedd, who slammed a double century in yesterday’s GCA’s Brain Street U-15 semi-final at MYO. The Essequibo, U-17s game is set for DCC.
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