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GCA’s Carib Beer T20… Benn, Adams helps Police to victory; Chanderpaul spurs Everest to win
Ricardo Adams, who returned to take 4-27, smashes Assad Fudadin behind point for four.
By Sean Devers
On a soggy DCC ground and a track with some moisture 19-year-old left-hander Taignarine Chanderpaul hit an unbeaten 48 to lead Everest to a 10-run win over the University of Guyana (UG) on the Duckworth/ Lewis rule yesterday in a Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) / Carib Beer T20 First division match that was reduced to a 10-over battle due to a mid-morning downpour.
In the other match at the same venue, an attractive 59 from opener Troy Benn and 4-27 from Ricardo Adams spearheaded Police to six-run victory over GNIC. After a 65-minute stoppage due to rain with Everest on 29-2 from 6.4 overs the game was reduced and Everest scored 42 runs in their last four overs, as Chanderpaul tore into the bowlers with disdain, making 30 of those runs.
Taignarine Chanderpaul hammers a boundary during his entertaining unbeaten 48 yesterday.
The West Indies Under-19 batsman reached the boundary six times and cleared it three times, twice off consecutive balls from Pavindralall Persaud. Micheal Shalim (2-6 from 3 overs) reduced Everest to 18-2 by getting rid of Askay Persaud (0) and Guyana U-19 Captain Travis Persaud (5); no one else got into double figures as Everest reached 70-5 when their overs expired.
UG, set a revised target of 81 in 10 overs got a firm 45-run foundation from openers Darnel Douglas (23) and Leon Williams (31) but they could only reach 75-6. In the afternoon game, Benn’s 59, Shaid Gittens (20), and an unfinished stand from Stephen Harris (15) and Leron Premo (15) took Police to 147-5 off 20.
Pacer Rawle Merrell (2-4 from 4 overs) had a miserly spell for GNIC who could only muster 142-6 despite 38 from West Indies batsman Assad Fudadin, 30 from Jason George and 19 from Persaud.
Fudadin and Persaud shared in a 51 run partnership but once Adams removed Fudadin and Ryan Shun (0) in successive deliveries to leave the score on 82-5 and the wicket-keeper dropped Merrell of his hat-trick ball it was all over bar the shouting.
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