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Latif, Rooplall guide Regal to Open title, Regal Masters beat Wellman
By Zaheer Mohamed
Regal All stars romped to a 10-wicket victory over Speed Boat to win the Open title, while Regal Masters defeated Mike’s Wellman by 37 runs when the Regal Sports T20 softball tournament concluded on Sunday at Demerara
Members of the victorious Regal Open and Masters teams with their accolades. (Zaheer Mohamed photo)
Cricket Club.
An unbroken opening stand of 129 between Man-of-the-match Richard Latif and Patrick Rooplall anchored Regal chase against Guyana Softball Cup 6 champions Speed Boat.
While Latif gradually grew into his stride, Rooplall was his usual aggressive self as he dumped Greg Singh and Wazir Hussain for sixes before driving Sheldon Perch for four. Latif favoured the cover drive and executed it well taking boundaries off Perch before smashing Imran Khan for six.
Rooplall hit two fours and four maximums to finish on 52, while Latif struck six fours and two sixes in 51 as Regal achieved their target in 10.1 overs.
Earlier, Speed Boat were put on the back foot early when Latif bowled Lennox Marks (03) and Hussain (11) reducing them to 27-2. They then lost two more quick wickets to be at 39-4 before Anand Bharat and Greg Singh added 44 for the fifth-wicket, but Delroy Pereira ended the partnership with the wicket of Singh for 10. Bharat continued to battle but found little support as he ended unbeaten on 24 with three fours. Latif grabbed 3-13; Pereira 2-18 and Kelvin Olford 2-25 as Speed Boat were bowled out for 125 in 15 overs.
Regal Masters posted 171-8, taking first strike. Having lost Mahendra Hardyal (03), Eon
The runner up in the masters category Mike’s Wellman (Zaheer Mohamed photo)
Abel (05), Fazleem Mohamed (00), Raymond Harper (21) and Mahendra Arjune (16), Lynden Lyght and Eric Thomas resurrected the innings fairly with a sixth-wicket partnership of 48 before Thomas departed for 19. Lyght hit three fours in scoring 36. But Regal were indebted to Rudolph Baker who propped up the score with a robust 44 which contained one four and five sixes. Eon Lovell had 2-19 and Latchman Kallicharran 2-20.
Pacer Laurie Singh bowled Greg De Franca (07) as Speed Boat lost their first wicket with the score on 16, but Kallicharran and Nandram Samlall steadied the chase somewhat with a second wicket stand of 37 before they both fell within the space of three runs as Regal fought back; Kallicharran made 21 and Samlall 13.
Wayne Jones and Nigel Estrado threatened as they shared in a fourth wicket partnership of 40 but when Estrado went for 22, Regal restricted the scoring with some steady bowling, picking up wickets at regular intervals. Jones hit four sixes in a top score of 47 off 27 balls as Wellman finished on 134-8. Singh was the pick of the bowlers with 3-13, while Hardyal claimed 3-36. Jones was named man-of-the-match.
The free entry tournament saw Regal All stars and Masters collected a trophy and $100,000 each while Speed Boat and Wellman received a trophy and $25,000 apiece.
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