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Dave West Indian Imports U-15 Inter-County final Algoo, Khan help Berbice dethrone Demerara at Bourda
By Sean Devers
Watched by a fair sized crowd which included several parents, Defending Champions Demerara were dethroned by Berbice when the curtains came down on the fifth annual Dave West Indian Imports 50-over U-15 Inter-County tournament organised by the Guyana Cricket Board.
Berbice dethroned Demerara yesterday at Bourda in a low scoring final. Third from right is the sponsor Dave Narine of Dave West Indian Imports.
In scorching heat on a slow track, Demerara elected to bat and were dismissed for a paltry 83 in 35.2 overs; Nityanand Matura top scored with 17 in the low scoring encounter.
Hemraj Harripersaud (13) and Josh Alves (12) were the only other batsmen to reach double figures for Demerara who left out one of their leading batsmen, Romeo Deonarain.
Sanjay Algoo had 4-9 after pacer Shiv Harriprashad, who took 2-15, started the slide. But it was 13-year-old Off Spinner Salim Khan who again looked the best bowler with 1-9.
The Port Mourant player was the leading wicket taker in the tournament with 12 scalps including a best of 7-16 and seemed unlucky not to have captured his third Man-of –the-Match award.
The tournament’s leading wicket-taker Salim Khan was the best bowler in yesterday’s game before making a match winning 22 for Berbice.
Berbice made it as hard as turtle climbing Mount Romrima before eventually reached 87-8 in the 45th over to win by eight wickets.
When the pre-tournament favourites began the chase of what appeared to be an easy target, the classy 14-year-old left-handed Rampertab Ramnauth looked a class above his peers and executed several imperious cover drives.
However, the tournament leading run scorer with 159 runs, including a magnificent 96 in the first round, got a yorker length delivery that swung into him to rattle his stumps and by Lunch Berbice were in control on 26-1.
But after Lunch the home side fought back and never allowed the lads from Guyana’s second largest County to score freely.
MOM Sanjay Algoo took 4-9 for B’ce yesterday at Bourda.
Once Avishkar Persaud, the only other batsman in the tournament to score a fifty, fell for one, Shiv Harriprashad, Josh Alves, who had figures of 6-1 against the President’s X1 and Sachin Balgobin reduced Berbice to 47-6 before Khan joined
Rampertab Ramnauth was the leading run scorer with 159 runs.
Kevin Kirsten (13) and orchestrated a good stand before Kirsten departed.
But Khan, showing good all-round ability, batted sensibly to score a game high 22 in what proved to match winning innings before he was dismissed with Berbice a few runs short of their target.
At the Presentation Ceremony, sponsor, USA based Guyanese Dave Narine, who provided every player in the tournament with exercise books, told to the players to work hard on their cricket but not to forget their studies since education is very important for a successful life.
President of the GCB Faizul Bacchus and chairman of the National Youth selection panel Azearudeen Drepaul spoke at the Presentation Ceremony. But although Drepaul confirmed that an U-15 team had been selected to participate in the U-17 Inter-County tournament which commences on Tuesday, he did not disclose the names of those picked.
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