Georgetown trail by 113 with seven wickets intact against West Demerara

Sep 25, 2016 Sports

Chanderpaul slams 187, Persaud hits 72

When stumps were drawn on the second and penultimate day of the fifth-round Guyana Cricket

Tagenarine Chanderpaul anchored West Demerara innings

Board Jaguars three-day league at Lusignan, Georgetown were trailing by 113 runs with seven wickets intact against West Demerara yesterday. Batting a second time the city side closed on 74-3 with Jahron Byron on seven and skipper Christopher Barnwell on three.
In reply to Georgetown first innings score of 170, West Demerara resumed on 165 with Tagenarine Chanderpaul on 94 and Akshaya Persaud on 49, and scored 357 before they were bowled out just before tea. Persaud reached his fifty with a single in the first over and added a further 38 with Chanderpaul before he was lbw for 72 after hitting six fours and one six off 139 balls in 178 minutes. Chanderpaul continued to bat sensibly and soon brought up his well deserved century off 150 balls after batting for 219 minutes. He then pulled Kellon Carmichael to the mid-wicket fence before driving Ronaldo Alimohamed for boundaries. However, Alimohamed uprooted the stumps of Yetesh Dhanpaul (05), off-spinner Gajanand Suknanan bowled Kemol Savory (07), while left arm seamer Andre Stoll bowled Travis Persaud (00) as West Demerara went to lunch at 244-6 with Chanderpaul on 134.
After the break, Romario Shepherd dumped Devon Lord for a six before he was bowled the very next ball for seven, while Barnwell had Richie Looknauth caught for five. Chanderpaul and Mahindra Dhanpaul added 69 for the ninth-wicket to frustrate their opponents somewhat. Chanderpaul continued to carefully gather his runs on both sides of the pitch and soon brought up

Akshaya Persaud

his 150 after batting for 354 minutes. Dhanpaul took boundaries off Suknanan before the left-handed Chanderpaul deposited Devon Lord over the ropes. Kellon Carmichael then had Dhanpaul caught for 39 with four fours and two sixes.
The level-headed Chanderpaul showed immense concentration and hardly put a foot wrong until he was caught by wicket-keeper Dexter Solomon off Carmichael flashing at a wide ball outside off-stump for 187. His innings included eleven fours and seven sixes and came off 347 balls in 414 minutes; Seyhodan was unbeaten on one; Suknanan claimed 3-89 off 37 overs, Carmichael 2-35 off 17 and Stoll 2-50 from 14 overs.
Facing a deficit of 187, Georgetown lost Robin Bacchus lbw to Shepherd for four in the first over before Andrew Lyght and Sunil Singh took the score to 62. Singh who pulled Yetesh Dhanpaul over mid-wicket and smashed him over long-on for sixes, was stumped off Richie Looknauth for 32, while Lyght was bowled by Seyhodan for 23, leaving their team at 62-3 before Byron and Barnwell saw them to the close.
Play continues at 09:30 hrs today.

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