Jaguar’s played consistent cricket in 2018 Win 4th consecutive FC title as 4 Guyanese play Test Cricket

Dec 28, 2018 Sports

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By Sean Devers

Guyana Jaguars began the year as leaders in 2017-18 Regional First Class season and won their three remaining games to capture their fourth consecutive title by beating Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago and drawing with

Barbados in January before finishing the year by winning the first two games in 2018-19 season in December to extend their unbeaten streak to 12 matches.
Shimron Hetmyer, Devendra Bishoo, Kemo Paul and Chanderpaul Hemraj all played Test Cricket in 2018 while Vishaul Singh played for the ‘A’ team during that period.
Veerasammy Permaul (in April) and Sherfane Rutherford (in December) made their T20 debuts in 2018 although Permaul bowled just three balls on his T20I debut against Pakistan before he pulled up with a twisted left-ankle.
Anthony Bramble led a West Indies B team which included Rutherford to the Global T20 tournament in Canada, while Ronsford Beaton played for the West Indies ‘B’ in the October Super50.
Hetmyer ($588,000), Paul ($70,000) and Rutherford ($258,000) were in December, bought by the IPL and will play in the 2019 Edition of the tournament.
Jaguars began the year by beating Jamaica in Jamaica from January 4-6 by two wickets after three-wicket hauls each from Kemo Paul and Bajan Raymon Reifer helped dismiss Jamaica for 106.
Veteran Shiv Chanderpaul (50) and Chanderpaul Hemraj (47) lead Jaguars to 183 before left arm spinner Gudakesh Motie (4-39) and Paul (2-34) bowled well as Jamaica fell for 212 in their second innings.
Hemraj (40) and Paul (21) carried Jaguars to 136-8.

Jaguars and Barbados played to a draw in the next round as 90 from Hemraj, 56 from Johnson, 33 from Reifer and 32 from Shepherd rallied Guyana to 297.
Shepherd (5-40) and Paul (2-41) shared seven wickets as Barbados fell for 199.
Tagenarine Chanderpaul’s unbeaten 100, 73 from Bramble and 43 from Singh allowed Guyana to declare on 263-3 before the Bajans reached 204-4 when play ended.
Guyana Jaguars ended the season as the only unbeaten team to join Barbados (1977-1980) and Jamaica (2008-2012) as the only teams to win the Regional First-Class tournament for four consecutive seasons when they beat T&T’s Red Force by an innings and 81 runs on the final day of this season’s CWI Regional Four-Day competition at Providence on January 21, 2018.
Jason Mohammed’s seventh First-Class century in the second innings could not prevent Red Force from the massive defeat as Guyana batted just once and declared at 540-9.
Left-arm spinner Veerasammy Permaul finished with 50 wicket in what was a truly dominating season for the South American Franchise.
Guyana’s victory was set up by the left-handed Reifer who joined Roger Harper (twice), Carl Hooper and Narsingh Deonarine as the only Guyanese to score a century and claim a five-wicket haul in the same game. Reifer’s unbeaten 108 also saw the Jaguars breaking the 47-year-old record of Guyana’s highest total (537) against T&T.
The Jaguars have lost just three matches in their last 42 games; to Barbados and Leewards twice.
Bramble finished as the wicketkeeper with the most dismissals (45) and scored 613 runs including an unbeaten 196 and four fifties, while Paul finished with the most wickets (42) by a pacer in addition to scoring a hundred in the first match against Jamaica and finishing with a shot-filled 53 in the last game.

Bramble’s 196, was four short of what would have been only the second ever double century in Regional First-Class Cricket. Grenadian Junior Murray’s 218 in 1997 against Guyana on home soil is the only Keeper with a ‘double’ in Regional Cricket.
Vishaul Singh, rested for the last game, scored two hundreds and an unbeaten 97 in St Kitts.
Singh, Paul, Reifer, Shiv Chanderpaul, Johnson, Bramble and Tagenarine Chanderpaul scored hundreds, while Tagenarine Chanderpaul and Hemraj featured in two century opening partnerships.

Ironically, Hemraj, who has not been able to convert any of his five fifties this season into hundreds, was Jaguars’ leading run-scorer with 623 runs.
All of the Guyanese bowlers took at least 15 wickets, including Keon Joseph and Romario Shepherd who played just five matches each.
Johnson finished with 575 runs with 165 and three half-centuries and only Jamaican Tamar Lambert has more consecutive titles as Captain with five.
In December, Jaguars beat Windwards in St Lucia and Leewards in Antigua to finish at the top of the table at the break for Christmas.
In St Lucia Vishaul Singh (75) and Shepherd (44) saw Guyana to 224 before Clinton Pestano captured 4-46 and Permaul 3-13 did damage as Volcanoes fell for 187.
Opener Tagenarine Chanderpaul scored a marathon unbeaten 84 from 334 balls, Pestano batting as night watchman made 69, while Johnson scored 51 as Jaguars declared on 310-4.
Permaul had 3-56 while there two wickets each for Shepherd, Barnwell and Pestano as Guyana won by 125 runs.
Jaguars finished off the season by defeating Hurricanes in Antigua by nine wickets.
Shepherd 4-36 and Motie 3-23 helped to dismiss the host for 182 before Singh (90) and Barnwell (46) led Guyana to 289.
Permaul with 5-57 and Motie 3-11 conspired to dismiss the Leewards for 138-9 after Guyanese Rajendra Chandrika could not bat due to a broken finger.
Guyana reached 32-1 with Johnson (15) and Trevon Griffith (13) at the crease after Tage Chanderpaul (1) fell to Sheno Berridge.
While Singh top-scored with 90 and took his aggregate to 168 runs from two games and Johnson and Pestano got fifties after Chanderpaul made 84 in St Lucia, none of Guyana’s batsman converted their good starts to a three-figure score.
Manager Rayan Griffith said he would like to see a bit more improvement mentally, being more aware and batting more intelligently.

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