Javon Persaud’s 5 for 18 put Canje Secondary into the Quarter-finals

Apr 02, 2016 Sports

2016 Dalchand Rambharose Inter-Secondary School Under-15 Berbice Cricket

Canje Secondary School has become the first school to reach the quarter-finals of the Dalchand Rambharose

Javon Persaud

Inter-Secondary School Under-15, Two-innings Cricket Competition in Berbice. In their final Zone D preliminary match, they took first innings points from Berbice High School to end on top of that Zone with 12 points.
In the match which ended in a draw and was played at the Cumberland Ground, Berbice High School chose to bat first and enjoyed an opening stand of 20 between Jason Rishiram (10) and Joel Campbell (7). However, offspinners Javon Persaud and Anthony Williams picked up two and one wickets respectively to reduce them to 21 for 3.
Abdul Ramsammy and Robert Suntgolam then put on a valuable 43 for the 4th wicket after which Persaud struck again, removing Suntgolam for 11 at 64 for 4. Ramsammy continued and he and Ajay Nadisan took the score to 105 after which Ramsammy went for 37.
Berbice High did not get further then and lost all of their last 5-wickets for 0 run, ending on 105 all out in their first innings.
Javon Persaud ended with 5 for 18 from 7-Overs.
When Canje Secondary replied, they lost an early wicket with only 11 runs on the board but Berbice Under-15 batsmen Carl Gilgeous and Zeynul Ramsammy put on 70 for the 2nd wicket after which Ramsammy went for 30.
Gilgeous went on to score 43 which was largely responsible for Canje Secondary reaching 106 for 5 after which the match was called off.
Bowling for Berbice High, Devin Moses took 2 for 30.