Final day Digicel Regional First-Class Cricket...Hetymer’s unbeaten 44 powers Jaguars to early win

Final day Digicel Regional First-Class Cricket…Hetymer’s unbeaten 44 powers Jaguars to early win

Mar 21, 2017 Sports

By Sean Devers in Trinidad
In association with Cascadia Hotel, Stag Beer
& Vnet Communications

A brutal unbeaten 44 from 20 year-old Shemron Hetymer ensured leaders Guyana Jaguars took just 42 minutes into the final day of their Digicel Regional First-Class seventh round fixture against T&T’s Red Force to gallop to an emphatic 10-wicket win yesterday at a sun kissed Queen’s Park Oval yesterday.
Scores: Red Force (202 & 183) Jaguars (330 & 56-0).
The left-handed Hetymer, Captain of 2016 World Cup U-19 Champion West Indies, set the ‘Oval’ on fire with an array of murderous boundaries from the word go. He clobbering seven savagely struck fours and a huge six off pacer Anderson Phillip. His destructive innings lasted just 40 balls and 59 minutes as the Jaguars, set 55 from four overs on Sunday and the entire yesterday, raced to 56 without loss in 12.4 overs.
In total contrast, the right-handed Rajendra Chandrika labored for 33 balls in an unconvincing 10 not out and never looked settled. But in the end Chandrika, who appeared to be batting on a different pitch against different bowlers than Heytmer, was still there when the Jaguars extended their unbeaten record to five matches since they last lost by four wickets to the Leewards Hurricanes in St Kitts last year.
Left-arm spinner Veerasammy Permaul finished with nine wickets in the game, including a seven-wicket haul in the second innings and was named Man-of-the-Match.
Guyana increased their lead to 100.2 points, 12.8 points ahead of second placed Barbados Pride, their opponents in their next game, the first ever Regional four-day game to be played over five days at the Kensington Oval from

Shemron Hetymer smashes Marlon Richards for four as he set the ‘Oval’ on fire with a pugnacious unbeaten 44 yesterday. (Photos by Sean Devers)

Thursday.
Watched by two men and a dog, the Jaguars resumed on 3-0 and Chandrika, with no movement of his feet nearly chopped a short ball from pacer Marlon Richards onto his off stump and scampered a single to start the ‘Shemron Hetymer’ show.
The Berbician from Canefield in Canje, stroked Richards sweetly past mid-off when the Guyanese born pacer over-pitched, before taking a liking to Phillip.
Hetymer greeted Phillip with a thunderous pull to the mid-wicket boundary and followed it up with a disdainful clip of his legs through square leg for four. He was not done yet and waded into to Phillip and deposited him over the rope at long-on before finishing off the over with a scintillating extra cover drive which reached the boundary like a scud-missile.
Chandrika in the meantime played and missed outside the off stump a few times before surviving a confident caught behind appeal off Richards when he was on four.
A big drive by Hetymer off the hard working Richards flew past the slip cordon for four before he hammered the pacer back past him for another boundary as Chandrika was the silent partner at the non-striker’s end.
Hetymer, already with four fifties this season, danced into off-spinner Bryan Charles and stroked him confidently through cover for a couple to move to 35, while Chandrika remained stuck on four.
Hetymer, with scores of 74 and 42 in Jamaica, ended the contest by hitting left-arm spinner Khary Pierre for a blistering boundary to bring to an end the 42-minute massacre.