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Opening day of 2nd three-day practice affected by Rain Jaguars face Volcanoes in St Lucia from Dec 6-9
By Sean Devers
Overnight and morning showers at Providence affected the opening day of the second and last three-day practice match for four times defending Guyana Jaguars who will play the Windwards Volcanoes in in St Lucia as they begin their Regional First-Class cricket campaign from December 6-9.
Robin Bacchus was dropped at gully off Clinton Pestano at Providence yesterday. (Sean Devers photo)
While the ground, rated as one of the fastest drying International Cricket ground in the world, took a pounding from heavy rain, it remained in a playable condition but the problem was the pitch which had to covered with preparation moisture due to yesterday morning showers.
Despite the sun appearing intermittently from behind the grey cloud cover over the East Bank Demerara Venue, the first two sessions were lost and the Umpires eventually called play just after 14:00hrs in sunny conditions before rain stopped play in the second over with Vishaul Singh’s X1 batting against Leon Johnson’s X1.
Play resumed after a 15-minute delay and the left-handed Robin Bacchus pivoted on one leg and pulled left-arm seamer Andre Stoll, while Windies Test opener Rajendra Chandrika began in watchman like fashion on a slow track with a tinge of green.
Bacchus was dropped at gully by Tagenarine Chanderpaul off lively Berbician pacer Clinton Pestano before steering Guyana’s only bowler with a hat-trick in Regional 50-over cricket, all along the ground past gully for his second boundary which took him into double figures on the still fast outfield.
Robin Bacchus pulls Andre Stoll yesterday at Providence.
However, with the score on 12 in eight overs and Bacchus on 11 and the 29-year-old Chandrika, who played the last of his five Tests in August 2016, on one, another shower sent the players scurrying off the field.
Just when it seemed that play would restart, a third shower, which lasted for the rest of the afternoon, washed out the rest of the day’s play.
Weather permitting, the second day is scheduled to start at 09:00hrs today.
Manager of the Guyana Jaguars Rayon Griffith expressed disappointment with the adverse weather, but said there nothing he nor the teams could do about it since it was God’s work.
“Both of our practice games were affected by rain but I am fairly satisfied with our preparations so far since the batters got some runs in the first game at Everest,” informed the former pacer who took 54 wickets from 22 First-Class matches in a career which spanned between 1999-2007.
Griffith will celebrate his 40th birthday in Barbados on the penultimate day of Guyana’s third game and first for 2019 which runs from January 4-7 and added that the day was not wasted since the players did some light training and fielding drills yesterday morning.
Guyana play the Leewards Hurricanes in their second game from December 13-16 in Antigua before the tournament breaks for the Christmas holidays. The Jaguars will play five games at Providence and five on the road.
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