By Sean Devers
Questionable tactics in their run chase from East Bank after off-spinner Ershad Ali had captured a League best 7-62 in a losing cause, handed West Demerara their first win when their second round GCB Jaguars three-day Franchise League match ended at Everest yesterday.
Raymon Reifer (left) & Richie Looknauth bowled West Demerara to victory over East Bank at Everest yesterday.
[url=http://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2016/09/05/gcb-jaguars-3-day-franchise-league-west-dem-romp-to-201-run-win-at-everest-despite-7-wkts-by-ali/]At Cumberland in Canje, West Berbice overnight on 98-2, reached 163 with Avishkar Sewkarran (40) and Shemron Hetmyer (35) leading the way.
Set an improbable 330 to win in 79 overs on a slow track which kept low, after West Dem carried their overnight 164-5 to 236 just before lunch, East Bank were bowled out for 129 at 15:41hrs to lose by 201 runs five minutes before a heavy downpour began.
A draw would have given both teams three points plus their batting and bowling points. But after Vishaul Singh, the only batsman with the temperament to bat all day, was run out by a sharp piece of fielding by Richie Looknauth for a 41 ball 21 with four boundaries, the others batted in t20 mode and paid the price for not understanding they were required to bat ‘time’ instead of trying to score as quickly as possible.
The GCB/CGI Jaguars 3 Day League, third round of matches commences on Thursday 8 September, 2016 from 0930 hours at four (4) venues across the country. The semi-professional league will see:
Essequibo contesting Upper Demerara/ East Bank at the Everest Cricket Club ground.
West Berbice competing against West Demerara at the Young Warriors Cricket Club ground.
Upper Corentyne doing battle with Lower Corentyne at Port Mourant Community Centre.
Georgetown challenging East Coast Demerara at the Georgetown Cricket Club ground, Bourda.
After the second run of matches Lower Corentyne heads the points table with 36.5 points, East Coast Demerara has 31.5 points, West Demerara on 21.5, Essequibo on 18.1, Georgetown on 10.6, West Berbice on 10.1, Upper Demerara/ East Bank on 9.7 and Upper Corentyne on 9.5.
The Points Standing after the second round of matches is demonstrated in the table below:
Eleven players missing from third round today ELEVEN vital players from the respective franchises will be missing from today’s start of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Jaguars Franchise League Three-day tournament, due to a West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) training camp in Barbados.
The camp forms part of preparations ahead of the senior team’s tour to the UAE where they face Pakistan in three T20s, three ODIs and three Tests, between September 20 and November 3.
The West Indies ‘A’ team will tour Sri Lanka during that same period.
Chronicle Sport was informed by GCB’s Territorial Development Officer, Colin Stuart, that the eleven players are: Leon Johnson, Rajendra Chandrika, Paul Wintz, Keon Joseph, Ronsford Beaton, Vishaul Singh, Veerasammy Permaul, Devendra Bishoo, Gudakesh Motie, Assad Fudadin and Shimron Hetmyer.
Meanwhile, for today’s third-round fixture, West Berbice will clash with West Demerara at the Young Warriors Cricket Club ground, Lower Corentyne will play Upper Corentyne at Port Mourant, Georgetown will oppose East Coast Demerara at GCC and Essequibo battle East Bank at Everest.
After the first two rounds, Lower Corentyne accumulated 36.5 points from their two outright wins to be at top of the points standing.
East Coast Demerara with wins over West Demerara and Upper Corentyne are on 31.5 points in second position.
West Demerara occupy the third position on 21.5, while Essequibo are on fourth with 18.1 points.
Georgetown are on fifth on 10.6 points, West Berbice are on 10.1 points, while East Bank and Upper Corentyne secured 9.7 and 9.5 points respectively in the eight-team League after two rounds.
Hooper bowls Upper Corentyne to strong position after day one September 8, 2016 By Rajiv Bisnauth
A DOMINATING display from the Upper Corentyne bowlers, especially off-spinner Eon Hooper, helped their team restrict Lower Corentyne to a nominal score in the first innings of their third-round game of the Jaguars Franchise League Three-day competition, yesterday, at the Port Mourant Cricket Club ground.The first innings of Lower Corentyne folded on 162 runs in 53.2 overs in just over an hour’s play in the middle session, with Hooper the main destroyer, claiming 5-18 off just 16.2 overs.
The Upper Corentyne spinners shared eight wickets between them, as they ensured their opponents were not let off the hook, after the 58-run opening stand between Kandasammy Surujnarine and Waheid Edwards.
Arif Chan, Shawn Pereira and Omesh Mathura were the other successful spinners with a wicket apiece, while pacer Keon Sinclair and Clinton Pestano, bowled decent line and lengths to claim the other two wickets.
Upper Corentyne closed the day with 29 runs short of their opponents’ first-innings total, after Lower Corentyne hit back with five wickets.
Chan (16) and Pereira (0) were at the crease when bails were lifted. It turned out to be a highly eventful day which saw as many as 15 wickets fall on a pitch that benefited the bowlers throughout the day.
Deciding to bat first, the Lower Corentyne openers got the team off to a solid start. Surujnarine, in particular played a couple of pleasing shots while Edwards looked in control as they added 58 runs in 12.5 overs.
However, they suffered a setback after that, as Sinclair removed Edwards for 17. The in-form Jonathan Foo joined Surujnarine, but after making a brisk 22, he was dismissed by Mathura. Gajanand Singh was the other batsman to be dismissed before lunch when he was caught and bowled off Chan for 20.
At the interval, Lower Corentyne progressed to 130-3, with Surujnarine on 60 and David Latchaya on two.
However, after the interval, Hooper broke the backbone of the Lower Corentyne’s batting, with Hooper foxing the batsmen with his variations.
He picked up the prized scalp of Surujnarine for 66, and then added Latchaya (2), Kassim Khan (0), Nail Smith (0) and last-man Raun Johnson (3) to his wicket column to choke Lower Corentyne to the small total. Surujnarine’s innings spanned 124 balls, with eight hits to the fence.
Pestano accounted for Devon Clements (7) while Pereira had the wicket of Sharaz Ramcharran for nine.
Jason Sinclair (17) and Andy Mohan (14), who replaced Assad Fudadin at the top of the order, added 23 before both openers were dismissed by Khan and Johnson respectively.
Upper Corentyne were then left gasping at a precarious 55-4 to allow their opponents to neutralise the advantage,
Pacer Smith had both Joshua Ramsammy (14) and Anthony Bramble without scoring.
However, Rajiv Ivan then launched a gutsy fightback much to the frustration of the Lower Corentyne players and supporters.
He stroked his way to 62 off 95 balls, inclusive of seven fours before he was dismissed by Clements just before the close of play.
Meanwhile, summarised scores from the other games are as follows:
At Cumberland, West Demerara were routed for 30, as Rishi Looknauth bagged 4-10, Romario Shephard had 3-11 and Raymon Reifer took 2-5 for West Demerara.
At the close, West Demerara were batting 276-5, with Reifer leading the way, smashing 119 off just 121 balls. Akshya Persaud scored 74 and Safraz Esau struck 53 off 41 balls. Leon Andrews has so far taken 2-55 bowling for West Berbice.
At Everest, play was called off at 12:32hrs due to rain. Essequibo won the toss and elected to bat. They reached 8-1, with Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Avinash Persaud on one not out each. Kevin Boodie was the batsman to be dismissed, lbw to Ryan Shun for five.
At Bourda, play between Georgetown and East Coast Demerara was called off without a ball being bowled.
