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GCA’s Trophy Stall, GISC and Star Party Rentals Cricket…Bacchus masterful 153 leads GCC to win over TSC
Suknanan grabs 8 wickets on debut as DCC & GNIC play to draw
By Sean Devers
A masterful 153 by GCC skipper Robin Bacchus lead his team to an innings and 51-run win against Transport Sports Cub (TSC), while GNIC’s off-spinner Gajanand Suknanan grabbed an eight-wicket match haul against DCC in the GCA’s Trophy Stall, GISC and Star Party Rentals two-day first division games which ended yesterday.
Robin Bacchus pulls for four to post his century at Bourda yesterday as GCC beat TSC.
At Bourda, 25-year-old left-handed Bacchus staked an early claim for possible selection for the second half of the PCL with a delightful century and shared in a 117-run stand with Winston Forrester (48), 99 with Martin Pestano-Bell (46) for the third wicket and 37 for the fourth wicket with Anthony Adams (34) who returned with the ball to grab 5-33 with his left-arm spin to give GCC victory just before Tea.
Scores: TSC (179 & 70), GCC (301-6 declared)
GCC began the final day on 108-1 and Bacchus, who will participate in the ‘Unity Cricket’ on January 30 at Providence, took his overnight 53 to 153 and brought up his ton with his 13th boundary; a brutal pull off of Kevin Ross which rocketed into the mid-wicket boundary.
His century took 147 balls and after reaching the landmark Bacchus, watched by a small gathering including family members, continued to play freely although Ross operated unchanged for the entire first session with a ball which had lost much of its hardness.
While Bacchus played several audacious shots, Adams was not to be left out of the runs feast and hammered Ross for a six and a four after smashing Orin Fernandes as both batsmen put their feet on the gas.
Ross removed Forrester at 145-2 and Pestano-Bell two runs later before having Bacchus stumped at 281-4 as every batsman went after him and by Lunch GCC were well placed on 299-5.
GCC opted to bat three balls after the interval to get to 300 and earn their fourth batting point as Ross took 4-89 from 20.3 overs for GNIC, set 121 to make GCC bat again. They were bowled out for 70 as only Soopaul Sinclair (25) reached double figures. Joshua Wade and Forrester supported Adams by taking two wickets each.
Scores at DCC: DCC (136 & 77-7 declared) GNIC (93 & 22-1)
Sherfane Rutherford (43) and Brian Sattaur (16) added 55 for the first wicket for DCC after the entire opening day was washed out but once Sattaur departed all ten of their batsmen were removed for 81 runs.
Only Darwin Christian (32) and Dexter George (15) who was dropped at slip to deny Suknanan his sixth wicket of the others reached double figures.
Suknanan, who plays for Lusignan on the East Coast, spun webs around the DCC batsmen to capture 5-15 in his first match for GNIC, while Andrew Clifford took 2-27.
GNIC lost their first two batsmen with just a run on the board when Trevon Garraway bowled Joshua Persaud for a duck and off-spinner Denis Squires, who enjoyed success with both bat and ball, trapped Quincy Ovid-Richardson to start the slide.
Ryan Shun (18), Kurt Lovell (11) and Shawn Desousa, who ran himself out for 26, were the only ones to reach double figures as Squires grabbed 5-46.
DCC trying to rattle up 77 quick runs, saw Suknanan remove Raymond Perez and Jahron Byron, while Richardson dismissed Sattuar to leave DCC on three wickets for no run.
But Rutherford got going with a boundary over point and a one-handed six over extra cover off Suknanan, while Squires clobbered Richardson for consecutive boundaries before dumping Suknanan, whom the batsmen seemed to target, for six.
Rutherford (16 from 6 balls) seemed unlucky to be given caught behind off Richardson 27-4 before the 50 was posted in 5.3 overs, while Squires, who smashed three sixes and three fours in an explosive 36, was caught off of Suknanan and Christian (25 with 3 sixes and three fours) was LBW to Richardson before the declaration was made leaving GNIC to get 120 to win from a minimum of 15 overs.
They eventually reached 22-1 when bad light stopped play with DCC getting first innings points in the rain affected contest.
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