Berbice Cricket Bard Inter Zone Under-15 competition... Central/Upper Corentyne & West Berbice dominate in opening rounds

Berbice Cricket Bard Inter Zone Under-15 competition… Central/Upper Corentyne & West Berbice dominate in opening rounds

Nov 03, 2017 Sports

The Berbice Cricket Board’s Under-15 Inter Zone 50 overs tournament commenced last Sunday at two venues across the county and the young aspiring cricketers showed true grit, as they sought to impress the selectors that they were capable of representing their county in the GCB’s much anticipated Inter County Under-15 games set to commence in February 2017.
At the Young Warriors Cricket Club in Cumberland, Central/Upper Corentyne convincingly defeated their peers from the New Amsterdam/Canje Zone in their 50-over affair. Winning the toss and opting to bowl first, NA/Canje’s bowlers had their work cut out, as the Corentyne lads rallied to 159 for 9. Batting for the Upper Corentyne Zone J. Rampersaud top scored with 38, while B. Downer and R. Rampersaud contributed 18 and 14 respectively.
Bowling for New Amsterdam/Canje, C. Arokium took 4 for 59, N. Samuels 2-39, while Isaiah Thorne and T. Caesar took one each.
In their reply, New Amsterdam Canje were dismissed for 100 as the Upper Corentyne bowlers continued to make light work of the NA/Canje batsmen. Avishkar Persaud top scored with 24, while T. Caesar scored 10.
All the other batsmen failed to reach double figures for their zone.
Bowling for Central/Upper Corentyne, Rampertab Ramnauth was the pick of the bowlers, taking 4 wickets for 17 runs in his 8 overs spell. J. Rampersaud, N. Singh, A. Munroe and J. Sandia each took one wicket as Central/Upper Corentyne cruised to a comfortable 59 run victory in this their first match.
At the Bush Lot Ground in West Berbice, West Berbice defeated Lower Corentyne by 75 runs in their encounter. Batting first, West Berbice scored 128; S. Safie 16, A. Balman 20 and D. Joseph 18 were the main run getters. Bowling for Lower Corentyne, K. Cecil took 4 wickets for 10 runs and A. Maniram 2-7.
In Lower Corentyne’s reply, only P. Ganesh managed to reach double figures as he scored 11. All the other batsmen fell below the double figure mark, as they were all bowled out for a paltry 53 runs.
The Competition continues tomorrow and will see Central/Upper Corentyne taking on West Berbice at Port Mourant Community Center, while Lower Corentyne will do battle with the lads of new Amsterdam/ Canje at the Albion Community Center.
President of the Berbice Cricket Board, Mr. Dhieranidranauth Somwaru, expressed his satisfaction at the conduct of the competition and is of the firm belief that these lads will do well at the inter county level.
He explained that the Berbice Cricket Board will select a 30-man squad after the competition is over, to be trained to represent the county at the GCB’s inter county scheduled for February 2018.

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