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GCB Hand-in-Hand U-19 Cricket…Berbice routed for 73 by U-17s at Wales
By Sean Devers
Defending three-day under-19 Inter-County cricket champions Berbice had won every
Joshua Jones (3-33) bowled impressively at Wales yesterday.
game in the last two seasons before their opening game in this year’s Hand-in-Hand at Enterprise signaled what was to come for arguable the weakest U-19 Berbice team at this level in the history of this tournament.
Essequibo registered a historic first innings victory over the once mighty Berbice who were then beaten on first innings in the rain affected second round at Everest by Demerara. Berbice saved their worst batting performance for the last round of the tournament, falling for the tournament’s lowest total this year.
After the entire first day was washed out at Wales on Thursday, the first session was also washed out yesterday although the sun was out in all of its glory and the Western boundary was ‘pulled in’ due to a waterlogged area.
The National U-17 Select won the toss and asked Berbice side to bat on a track with plenty of moisture and a sluggish outfield.
Berbice were in immediate trouble with the demise of Ritish Umroa (4) to the impressive Joshua Jones with just eight runs on the board and never recovered, crumbling for 73 all out.
Their embarrassing total was 20 runs less than what they were bundled out for against Essequibo, whose cricket has showed tremendous improvement this season, while Berbice’s had rapidly deteriorated.
Skipper Brandon Persaud sweeps Ashmead Nedd (4-11) yesterday at Wales.
Left-arm spinner Ashmead Nedd continued to demonstrate guile and confidence in his 18-over spell which cost just 11 runs and produced four wickets and was well supported by burly pacer Jones’ 3-33 in two spells of six overs each; bowling with good pace and impeccable control.
Adrian Sukwah (25) and his Captain Brandon Persaud (17) added 27 for the fifth wicket and were the only Berbicians to reach double figures.
By the close the U-17s were 21-0 from 4.1 overs when bad light stopped play at 16:58hrs. Baskar Yadram hammered three boundaries in one over from pacer Raymond Vanikhel to end the day on 15. With him was Sachin Singh on four to stamp their authority on the truncated day’s play.
When medium pacer Alphius Bookie bowled Joel Seetaram for a duck, Berbice, who has produced 17 Test players, were 14-2 before Matthew Hardial was forced to retire hurt on two without addition to the score.
Sasenarine Sukhu, who struggled to get the ball off the square, was removed by Nedd to end his misery after he had batted for 73 minutes for his nine to leave the score on 16-3.
When Nedd bowled Joshua Harrichand (4) Berbice had crawled to 23-4 from 23 overs and by Tea they had progressed to 38-4 from 29 overs and watching them bat was as exciting as watching paint dry.
After Tea, Persaud, who played for Guyana at the U-17 level in 2014, swept Nedd for four while Sukwah dumped Kevin Sinclair for six before clobbering Jones back over his head for his second six.
The pair inspired hope of a recovery but once Sukwah was stupendously caught at mid off by Kelvin Anderson, diving full length forward off Jones and Persaud ran himself out, the U-17s in firm control.
Today is the final day and play is scheduled to commence at 09:30hrs.
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