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Hand-in-Hand 3-day U-19 Inter-County Cricket …Nat U-17s bowled out for 90 at Wales
By Sean Devers
On a truncated first day of the Guyana Cricket Board’s (GCB) Hand-in-Hand Under-19
Baskhar Yadram square cuts for four in his top score at Wales yesterday.
three-day Inter-County Cricket Tournament at Wales yesterday, the National U-17 select were bowled out for 90.
In the game which began at 13:32hrs on a track with plenty of moisture in murky conditions Demerara U-19s were 25-1 in reply after the entire first session was washed out due the early morning rain in West Demerara.
While the outfield was dry the pitch made playing shots a nightmare for teenagers who lacked the experience and skill levels to weather the storm on such a surface.
Demerara won the toss and invited the U-17s to bat in a game both Coaches felt began too early. The U-17s, from which this Guyana team for the Regional U-17 Competition in Tobago will be selected from, were off to fair start.
The left-handed Javed Karim and right-hander Baskhar Yadram took the score to 21 in overcast conditions with Karim hitting Kelvin Shewpersaud for two boundaries.
Yadram gave himself room and elegantly cut Ali-Mohamed for four before majestically driving him through cover for another boundary before Shewpersaud struck by trapping Karim LBW for 13. Eight runs later Joshua Persaud (4) was caught at short cover off Shewpersaud at 29-2 before Ali-Mohamed induced Yadram (18) to edge a catch to Ronaldo Renee behind the stumps 10 runs later.
Javed Karim strokes Kelvin Shewpersaud to cover at Wales yesterday.
A handful of fans watched as Kevin St Clair (12) fell to Samuel McKenzie at 49-4 to start a collapse which saw only Sagar Hatheramani of the other batsman reaching double figures before he played an impetuous swipe at Micheal Hubbard and was stumped. Hatheramani’s 16 included the only six in the game which came off Demerara’s Skipper off-spinner Travis Persaud.
Alphius Bookie (5), Kurt Lovell (2), Ashmead Nedd (0), Kelvin Umroa (3) and Colin Barlow (0) all departed in quick as McKenzie (2-8), Sherfane Rutherford (2-14), Shewpersaud (2-16) and Hubbard (2-6) did the damage with the ball and exposed the deficiencies of the young batsman to cope on a sluggish pitch and play the ball late to bat ‘long’ to build an innings.
When Demerara began their reply Renee got going with a couple of spanking boundaries off pacer Barlow, while the experienced left-arm spinner Nedd was used to share the new ball with Barlow.
Renee pulled a short ball for four but Nedd soon trapped Raymon Perez LBW for a duck at 14-1. Rutherford and Renee survived the rest of the day as off-spinner St Clair who extracted prodigious turn from damp track, beat the outside edge of the left handed Rutherford known for his big hitting.
He will need to temper his aggression with sensible shot selection if he is to make a big score today when play is scheduled to start at 09:30hrs with Demerara still 65 runs short of the opposition’s total.
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