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Regional U-19 cricket in Jamaica… Guyana beat Canada to reach second consecutive final

Aug 01, 2015 Sports

Play Jamaica in tomorrow’s grand finale

It will be a Guyana, Jamaica final in this year’s regional 50-over under-19 tournament cricket tournament in Jamaica sparking memories of the 2007 tournament in St. Kitts when Guyana reached one win away from winning their first ‘double title’ that year as a thunderous ton from Horace Miller snatched victory from the Guyanese at Warner Park.
Host Jamaica yesterday got past Barbados by 39 runs in their final round game in which the winner advancing to tomorrow’s final.
Guyana, who won the ‘double’ last year on home soil, yesterday qualified for their second consecutive 50 overs final when they beat last placed Canada by four wickets at the Manchester High School in Mandeville in their final round game but will not have the chance of defending their three-day title because the three-day format has been strangely discarded.
The Guyanese, who took last year’s 50-overs title by virtue of their superior position on the points table after their final against the Windward Islands, was washed out at Bourda, reached 142-6 from 27.2 overs replying to the 138 all out in 34.1 overs made by the North Americans.
Renaldo Ali Mohamed, who traveled from Tobago where he represented Guyana in the Regional U-17 tournament, generated good pace to finish with 3-25 from fours overs and got good support from fellow pacers Sherfane Rutherford (2-16), Kemo Paul (2-21) and off-spinner Balchand Baldeo (2-26). Eight no-balls and 17 wides in 27 Extras aided the Canadians caused as Patel top scored with 33.
The Guyanese recovered from a poor start as Baldeo (30) and Paul (51) put together 73 for the third wicket, while Rutherford chipped in with an unbeaten 30 towards the end to see Guyana home as Thakar snatched 4-38 from 10 frugal overs to spark home thoughts of a dramatic come-from-behind win.
The Canadians won the toss in bright sunshine and opted to bat on a hard track with some bounce and pace in rural Jamaica and only Patel, batting at number nine offered any meaningful resistance with a 52-ball 33 decorated with five fours and a six as the top order failed to fire with four of the top five batsmen getting into the double figures but none passing 16.
The teenagers from the South America mainland began their chase in horrendous fashion when First-Class player and West Indies under-19 left-hander Shemron Hetymer was LBW to Thakar for a duck off the fifth ball of Guyana’s reply to leave the score on 5-1.
Tevin Imlach (9), who got going with a spanking boundary off Thakar in the opening over, departed 14 runs later when Thakar struck again in the fifth over but Baldeo and Paul orchestrated ‘operation rebuild’ to take Guyana to 92 before Paul, who played some enterprising shots and reached the boundary four times and cleared it three times in back-to-back fifties in the competition, departed.
Baldeo, who hit four fours in his patient 30 from 56 balls, fell to the impressive Thakar at 96-4 and when Parmanand Ramdhan (8) was removed, Guyana had slipped to 104-5 and in danger of a dramatic collapse which would have given Canada their only win.
But that was not to be, despite the demise of Skipper Travis Persaud (6) at 121-6 as Rutherford, who hit an unbeaten 30 from 21 balls with three fours and two sixes and Kasim Khan (2*) saw Guyana to their third ever 50-over Final with an unfinished partnership of 21.
Guyana, who has the most wins in the three-day format with 14, has only managed to win the 50 over tournament once since it was hastily arranged for the first time in 1998 to compensate for the rain ruined three-day tournament which was held in Trinidad.
Meanwhile, Jamaica led by 76 from Leonardo Friginette and 58 from Abhijai Mansingh reached 251-8 and bowled out Barbados for 212 in 47 over as Odean Smith and Brad Barnes took three wickets each for the team from the land of Wood and Water.

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