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BCB/New York Business Group U19 T20 Brilliant Anderson spearheads RHT Pepsi to championship trophy
One day after surrendering their 50 overs title to Albion, the Rose Hall Town Pepsi Under-19 team bounced back to capture the T20 version of the BCB/New York U19 tournament. Strengthened by the addition of Kevlon Anderson, Junior Sinclair, Mahendra Gopilall and Jonathan Rampersaud, Rose Hall Town Pepsi held their nerves to defeat Albion by 18 runs on the back of a majestic 80 from West Indies U19 middle order batsman Kevlon Anderson despite a fighting 52 not out from Albion Captain, Reyad Karim.
Man-of-the-final Kevlon Anderson is rewarded.
Albion’s team was also strengthened for the final with the addition of GCB Franchise players Gourav Ramesh and Kevin Umroa. The final was played under lights and watched by a large and colourful crowd which included the sponsors, New York Business Group.
Rose Hall Town Pepsi won the toss and elected to bat first. They suffered a big loss when national player Junior Sinclair was given out, stumped off Gourav Ramesh for 05 in the first over.
Anderson batting at the crucial No. 3 position joined Mahendra Gopilall to add 30 for the 2nd wicket before Gopilall was caught off the bowling of Leon Cecil for 11. Anderson went on to strike seven sweetly timed boundaries in his 80 and received vital support from Kevin Sewraj (10), Tyrese Sealey (11) and Nicholas Lawson 09 not out.
Beesham Surujnarine and Gourav Ramesh took 3 for 27 and 3 for 29 respectively for Albion as RHT Pepsi ended on 131 for 7. Anderson returned with the ball to dismiss pinch hitter Kevin Umroa for naught off the second legal ball of the innings.
Jetendra Outar and Reyad Karimtook took the score to 46 for 1 in the fourth over as Karim took 25 runs from an over from off-spinner Tyrese Sealey. Junior Sinclair then dismissed Outar for 09 and fellow off-spinner Jonathan Rampersaud then trapped national U17 batsman Sarwan Chaitnarine LBW for 07 as Albion slipped to 54 for 3.
Karim struck six boundaries in his top score of 52 but apart from Antonio February’s 16 and Surendra Ramcharitar 18, none of the other batsmen reached double figures as they were bowled out for 113 off the final ball of the innings.
Kevlon Anderson took 2 for 19 (4 overs), Left arm spinner Jeremy Sandia 3 for 3 (2 overs) and Junior Sinclair 3 for 12. Earlier in the day, Albion defeated Rose Hall Canje in the semifinals while Rose Hall Town Pepsi defeated Tucber Park by four wickets in the second semifinal.
Kevlon Anderson was named man-of-the-finals while RHT Pepsi carried home $75,000 and the winning trophy. Albion collected the runner-up prize and trophy.
The winning RHT Pepsi Under-19 team pictured with members of the New York Business Group.
President of the Albion Cricket Club, Vemen Walters, whose club organised the sponsorship, hailed the tournament as a success and commended the outstanding leadership of BCB President Hilbert Foster.
A representative of the New York Business Group, expressed satisfaction at the success of the tournament and stated that the group would sponsor both the T20 and 50 overs tournament in 2020 in a bigger way.
Meanwhile, Albion on Saturday last had dethroned RHT Pepsi at the No. 69 Vikings Ground in the 50 overs version with a comfortable 120 run win. Antonio February had starred with the bat, hitting 74 while off-spinner Beesham Surujnarine took four wickets.
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