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GCA’s Star Party Rentals, Trophy Stall & GISE 2-day cricket …Griffith’s 93, Sankar’s 4-35 in vain for DCC
Fifties from Boodie & Savory give Police a draw
On a day where there was no play on day two of the GCA’s Star Party Rentals, Trophy Stall & GISE two-day cricket match at Everest between MSC and Everest, who had ended the first day on 195-9, DCC strangely opted not to enforce the follow-on and allowed Police to hold for draw.
When the second day finally began at 13:00hrs, Police, overnight on 44-4 in reply to DCC’s 261-7, fell for 123.
Steven Sankar captured 4-35 for DCC.
Trevon Griffith scored an entertaining 93 yesterday.
DCC elected to bat again instead of enforcing the Follow-on and declared for the second time in the contest at 156-4 when the 26-year-old Trevon Griffith fell to Kelvin Leitch, seven short of his century in an entertaining knock which was decorated 10 fours and three sixes.
Set 309 to win in just under 90 minutes, the Cops were 166-1 from 15 overs when played ended in fading light.
Led by an unfinished shot-filled 116-run second wicket former DCC players Kevin Boodie, slammed seven fours and three sixes in a pugnacious 59 and Kemol Savory, who blasted a blistering 55 with six fours and three sixes.
Andrew Lyght followed up his first innings three, with a second ball duck after he was bowled by West Indies U-19 left-arm spinner Ashmead Nedd in the first over.
But that was to be the last taste of success for the Queenstown side as boundaries rained at the small ground as no bowler was spared the sound spanking from the flashing blades of Boodie and Savory who left DCC last year.
Watched by a vocal, partisan DCC support group led by ‘Norman the Juice man’ and including GCA President Roger Harper, his elder sibling, former Guyana batsman Mark and several past and present Guyana cricketers, the atmosphere was charged with taunts directed at both teams flying left, right and center.
Batting in glorious sunshine after the morning session was ruined due to overcast skies and showers, Boodie and Savory, urged on by a gathering which included family members at a venue which they once called home, the pair launched a murderous assault on the DCC bowlers.
Savory charged Sherfane Rutherford and deposited him twice over his head on the Road behind the Northern sightscreen before an effortless six over extra cover off Chris Barnwell got the Police supporters going and when Boodie stroked Barnwell imperiously to the cover boundary the noise level among the Police fans reached a crescendo under a clear blue.
Earlier, Police quickly lost their last six wickets yesterday for 87 runs although Parnell London reached the boundary six times in an even 50. But only Vishaul Jaigobin (17) past 15 as Nedd and Rutherford, with two wickets each, supported leg spinner Steven Sankar who grabbed 4-35.
DCC, in their second innings lost West Indies U-16 Captain Sachin Singh (7) when he was bowled by Raun Johnson at 12-1 before Tevin Imlach, who hit a four and three sixes in 40 and Griffith carried the total to 120 with an array of scintillating shots before Imlach was removed by Leitch.
When Johnson dismissed Barnwell (1) at 136-3, the Police brigade, led by Lyght, gave Barnwell a vocal send off in a game dubbed ‘Police vs Barnwell’ sparked by a ‘flair up’ between the Guyana all-rounder and the Police players in the Essequibo Franchise at Tuschen.
Griffith took a liking to Johnson; depositing him for four of his 10 sixes, and along with Rutherford, carried the score to 156 when the demise of the left-handed Griffith triggered the declaration to start the Boodie, Savory show. (Sean Devers)
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