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Berbice finish unbeaten to capture title
Raj Singh Insurance U-19 three-day Inter-County cricket
By Sean Devers
Essequibo enjoyed a commendable Raj Singh Insurance Inter-County under-19 three-day cricket tournament before saving their worse performance for the final day of the competition as Berbice registered their third consecutive win with an innings and 100-run third round win against the lads from the Cinderella County at Enmore yesterday.
Champions Berbice with the sponsor and Alvin Kallicharran.
Berbice resumed the final day on 273 and were bowled out 74 minutes into the day’s play for 331 as overnight batsmen Daniel Lewis, who made 67 not out and Retesh Umroa put together a record 101-run eight-wicket stand before fast bowler Kemo Paul trapped Umroa LBW at 302-9.
Lewis, who was later named the Man-of-the-Match, found the boundary six times from 181 balls, while Umroa’s innings included just two fours from 121 balls as left-arm spinner Akeenie Adams captured 4-48, Looknauth Chinkoo 2-67 and Keanu Harry 2-40 took the wickets for Essequibo who slipped from 35-0 at Lunch to be all out for 94 as Lewis (4-11), Joel Seetaram (2-19) and Khan (3-9) did the damage for the champions.
Parmesh Parsotam (25) and Nathan Persaud (19) added 46 for the first wicket before Leon Andries trapped Parsotam and Seetaram got rid of Persuad without addition to the score and Travis Drakes (4) to leave Essequibo on 58-3.
Paul played half forward and was LBW to Kassim Khan for 13 at 71-4 but nobody else in the order reached double figures apart from Chinkoo as Essequibo collapsed to defeat.
At the presentation ceremony Marketing Manager of the GBC Raj Singh, whose Company sponsored the competition paid a glowing tribute to former West Indies batsman Alvin Kallicharran’s work with the youngsters since he arrived in Guyana.
Singh, who missed most of the tournament due his overseas commitments, informed that the National under-15 team competed well in the Inter-County U-17 competition and having the National under-17 team playing at U-19 Inter-County level will do well for their cricket development.
Kallicharran said that in the two weeks he has been here he has seen some very good cricket and also some very bad cricket. He told the youths that it was important to balance the pluses and the minuses and to look at what they have achieved in this tournament.
“I want you to improve on the pluses and to work on the minuses and make a habit of consistency” Kallicharran said.
Berbice collected the championship trophy while Lewis collected the Man-of-the-Match award, while Berbice captain Shemron Hetmyer received a bat from the sponsor for scoring the only century in the competition.
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