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Super50 cricket review (part 2) Guyana extends 50-over title drought to 15 years
By Sean Devers
When Guyana Jaguars contest next year’s tournament it will be 15 years without a Regional 50-over title since last winning at Bourda in the 2005 KFC Cup when Neil McGarrell hit Suleiman Benn for six.
Shiv Chanderpaul was then Captain as Ramnaresh Sarwan sc
Raymon Refier got 10 wickets and made 172 runs.
ored two centuries in Barbados and another in the semis at Bourda and still owns the record for most centuries in a single tournament.
Guyana has won the title nine times (twice shared) since the late Roy Fredricks scored a century in 1980 final in Antigua when Timour Mohammed, who made Guyana’s first 50-over hundred, scored the most runs in that tournament.
Guyana reached 15 finals between 1973, when Clive Lloyd’s team lost to Barbados in the inaugural final and last October last when they lost to CCC in the last final after Skipper Leon Johnson scored his maiden century against Jamaica in the semis.
Guyana has qualified for nine semi-finals and three finals including in the last tournament, since 2005.
But this year, ultra-cautious batting from the top order, inconstant bowling, poor selections, adverse weather, not so smart cricket and the unavalibity of key players at critical times resulted in Guyana not qualifying for the semis.
In last year’s final Tagenarine Chanderpaul made 56 from 95 balls, but selected ahead Trevon Griffith, who scored an attacking century in the CGI 50 overs League and is Guyana’s best fielder.
Chanderpaul, more suited for ‘Red Ball’cricket, made 139 from five matches with a top score of 64 but his strike rate of 48.60 and his selection indicated that the selectors did not pick horses for courses.
Chanderpaul Hemraj scored Guyana’s only century in the tournament; joining Clayton Lambert, Sewnarine Chattergoon (2) and Sarwan (3) as the batsmen from Guyana with more than one ton, but his next seven innings produced just 102 runs and his low strike rate was surpr
Chris Barnwell’s 351 runs were the most for the Jaguars & the 6th highest in the Tournament.
ising from such an attacking batsman.
Johnson managed 147 runs from eight innings but threw his wicket attempting big shots when looking set for a big score and his strike rate was not very flattering.
Debutant Kemol Savory, who kept in the first three games, scored an unbeaten 71 from 146 balls in the first game but only managed 14 in his next four innings as the top consistently failed to fire.
Against the Windwards, Chanderpaul and Hemraj broke the 142-run Guyana record opening partnership set by Assad Fudadin and Shimron Hetymer in 2016 in Barbados when they put together 171. However, in the next game their ‘turtle paced’ batting returned.
Anthony Bramble opened the batting in the last match and was run out for 38 from 41 balls after missing the first three games due to injury.
The batting of Chris Barnwell and Jonathon Foo were the bright spots for Guyana.
Barnwell’s 351 included three fifties to follow-up his 99 last year and he was the six highest runs scorer before the semi-finals stage.
Foo, back in the team in almost two years, made 334 runs and two half-centuries including an unbeaten 97 against the Trinis. He averaged 55.66 and was among the top 10 batsmen in the tournament.
The bowling was also inconsistent with left-arm pacer Raymon Reifer picking up the only 5-wicket haul for Guyana but his departure for his wedding in Barbados left Guyana without their best all-rounder against T&T when they lost.
Jonathon Foo scored 334 runs for the Jaguars.
Left-arm spinner Veerasammy Permaul was Guyana’s leading wicket-taker with 11 from 10 matches, while Reifer had 10 wickets from seven games and scored 172 runs.
Off-spinner Ramaal Lewis also had 10 scalps and showed potential with the bat.
Debutants Nail Smith and Renaldo Ali Mohammed proved expensive with the ball as their inexperience showed.
Ali-Mohammed’s bowling was way below the standard required at Senior Regional.
The banning of Ronsford Beaton hurt Guyana since he was their quickest and most experienced fast bowler.
Rain caused Guyana not to have any turf practice for their first two games and any in their must win game against the USA.
The last over of their final match demonstrated the lack of game awareness and shot selection that plagued them throughout a tournament in which they faced the most dots balls of all the teams.
The tournament was staged in the middle of the rainy season here and persistent showers, which resulted in one game being washed out and the overs being reduced in several others, also left the outfields sluggish with batsmen not getting true value for their shots.
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