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GT win Demerara Inter-Association U-19 titleAs Bookie, Spooner & Bamfield shine at Wales
By Sean Devers
Watched by a small but noisy gathering at Wales yesterday, Georgetown registered their second win when they beat East Bank by 151 runs to take the Demerara Inter-Association 50-over U-19 title. Half centuries from Alphius Bookie and Joel Spooner and 4-19 from left-arm pac
Demerara Inter-Association Champions Georgetown with their trophy at Wales yesterday.
er Dequan Bamfield fired the City side to top honours in the rain affected four-team tournament in which the first round was washed out on Friday.
Bookie hit five boundaries in 59 and added 74 for the fifth wicket with Spooner who reached the boundary four times in his 50, but only Nkosi Beaton (24) and Devon Allen (16) of the others reached 15 as GT were restricted to 207-nine when their 50 overs expired.
East Bank were never in the contest and despite a fighting 15 from Guyana U-15 batsman Mavindra Dindyal who was spectacularly bowled as his off stump was sent cartwheeling past the Keeper off of Bamfield, were bowled out for 45 in 23.4 overs.
Bamfield, who swung the ball into the right handers and bowled his five overs on the trot, had 4-19, while left-arm spinner Daniel Mootoo had 2-7 and Spooner 2-0 from his only over.
Leg spinner Wayne Bollers and Mootoo kept the batsmen in shackles as they combined to bowl eight
GT’s left-arm pacer Dequan Bamfield took 4-19 at Wales yesterday to help his team to Championship honours at Wales yesterday.
consecutive maidens from the twelfth over and captured three wickets between them.
This was after Beaton and the fastest bowler in the tournament Qumar Torrington (1-14 from five overs) had left East Bank on 33-5 after 10 overs.
Bamfield started the slide when he had Andeuesse Rodrigues (1) LBW at 1-1 in the second over and removed Navin Persaud (2), Dindyal (15) and Dwayne Dick who missed a wild swipe and was bowled for a duck, while Torrington had Yeudister Persaud (4) to leave the score on 33-5.
Bollers and Mootoo then ensured East Bank were suffocated to a slow death as they remained on 36 for eight overs with three wickets falling during that period before Spooner wrapped up the innings.
Earlier, GT batted first on an extremely rough ground which had water on the western boundary and as the game progressed the flooded area spread onto the playing area due to the non-functioning pum
Jamal Michaels and Aaron Beharry had three wickets each in a losing effort for East Bank.
p station and a Koker which remained closed for the duration of the one-sided contest.
Sent in to bat in sultry conditions on a track which held no ‘horrors’ Akeem Hinds (13) and Garrick
Persaud (10) give GT a fair start before they were both removed in the space of four runs, as Shadrack Bacon struck twice to leave the City side on 32-2.
Allen and Bookie took the score to 69 before Allen was LBW to off-spinner Aaron Beharry, the 17-year-old son former
GT’s Joel Spooner on drives during his 74-run stand with Alphius Bookie (non-striker’s end) at Wales yesterday.
Berbice 50-over all-rounder Anil Beharry, then another useful partnership between Bookie, who batted responsible and Beaton saw the 100 posted.
Beaton was trapped LBW at 116-4 by National U-15 left arm spinner Zachary Jodah, the off-spring of ex Guyana U-19 left-handed batsman Richard Jodah.
Spooner joined Bookie and rode their luck as a substandard fielding performance from an East Bank unit, which seemed to lack energy, aided the lads from the Nation’s Capital.
Both batsmen began to find their range on the sluggish outfield before Spooner was caught and bowled by the impressive Beharry at 190-5, while Torrington (0) was bowled by Joel Michaels without addition to the score.
After Beharry got rid of Spooner at 202-7, Michaels removed the next two batsmen to finish with 3-21, while Beharry (3-24) and Bacon (2-24) also bowled well.
The inter-county 50-overs U-19 tournament is set the start on Tuesday.
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