Demerara retain title with innings victory over President’s XI

DEFENDING champions Demerara easily retained their Guyana Cricket Board Under-19 Inter-county title yesterday afternoon, following an innings-and-49-run victory over the President’s XI at the Georgetown Cricket Club ground.This was mainly due to the bowling of Keon Morris and Shurfane Rutherford, who did well to supplement Tagenarine Chanderpaul’s first-innings 167, which piloted the defending champions to a mammoth 407 for 7 declared.
Resuming yesterday’s final day on 152 for 7 with Ronaldo Ali Mohammed and Damion Waldron on 6 and 9 respectively, in search of 255 more runs to make Demerara bat again, President’s XI folded for 215, 20 minutes before lunch, with Morris picking up 3 for 31 and Rutherford 3 for 36, backed by Steven Sankar’s 2 for 60.