BCB/Nand Persaud Co. Female Cricket Tournament RHT Metro Female beat combined Canje/Tucber Park Team as BCB starts 29th Tourney

Dec 13, 2018 Sports

Female Cricketers in Berbice on Monday last started to play in the Berbice Cricket Board organised Nand Persaud Female Cricket Tournament. The historic tournament is being played on a best of three basis between the Rose Hall Town Metro Female Team and a combined team from New Amsterdam/Canje area. The Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, MS is the only club in Guyana to have its own functioning full strength Female Team, while New Amsterdam/Canje team consists of players from the Tucber Park and Rose Hall Canje Cricket Clubs. West Indies players Shemaine Campbelle, Tremayne Smartt captained the Rose Hall Town Metro and New Amsterdam/Canje teams respectively.
Rose Hall Town Metro won the toss and elected to bat. Openers Shabiki Gajnabi and Kimmone Thomas added 50 for the first wicket before Gajnabi was bowled by A. Duggins for 40 which included six boundaries. Thomas was joined by Sherica Campbelle, cousin of Shemaine and they added 40 for the 2nd wicket. Thomas was then bowled by Tremayne Smartt for 16 and then Smartt bowled Berbice Senior Player Mariam Samaroo for eight to leave Rose Hall Town Metro 123 for 3 in the 18th over.
Campbelle and another Berbice all rounder Dian Prahalad joined forces and stroked the ball delightfully around the ground to add 30 before Campbelle departed for a well played 60, caught off the bowling of the impressive Smartt. Sassie Munroe was run out for 01 but Prahalad 16 not out and Plaffiana Millington 07 not out carried their team to 169 for 5 off their allotted twenty five overs. Smart ended with 3 for 16 from four overs, while A. Duggins took 1 for 24.

Plaffiana Millington, Sherica Campbelle, Tremayne Smartt and Shabiki Gajnabi.

The combined team never looked like reaching their target of 169 against an experienced Rose Hall Town Metro bowling attack spearheaded by Erva Giddings, Gajnabi, Millington and Prahalad. They were dismissed for 46 from sixteen overs. Only Smartt 21 not out and A. Duggins 13 reached double figures as Guyana offspinner Plaffiana Millington took 5 for 7 from five very impressive overs, while Sherica Campbelle 2 for 8 supported well. Giddings 3-2-5-1 and Prahalad 1 for 10 also bowled well.
President of the BCB Hilbert Foster told the Female cricketers that the Board would use the current tournament to select the Berbice Senior Team for the 2019 Inter-county Tournament. The eighteen-player squad would be announced after the completion of the tournament to start early preparation under Coach Winston Smith and Senior players Shemaine Campbelle, Tremayne Smartt and Erva Giddings. The President also committed the Berbice Cricket Board to organising at least three female tournaments in 2019.

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