Georgetown clubs, Everest Cricket Club and Malteenoes Sports Club, will face off in one semi-final match of the 2006 Guyflag three-day, first-division cricket competition from today at the Everest Cricket Club ground, Camp Road.
The other semi-final will pit Cornelia Ida of West Demerara against Lusignan. The three-day matches end on Sunday.
Everest, coached by Orin Bailey, will be missing two key batsmen in Guyana opener Krishna Arjune and former West Indies opener Ryan Ramdass who are both injured.
Additionally, off-spinner Zaheer Mohammed is currently playing professionally in Trinidad.
Still available, though, are skipper and middle-order batsman Surendra Hiralall, all-rounders Sauid Drepaul and Rakesh Goberdan, pacers Ruel Daniels and Leon Scott, and batsmen Troy Gonsalves, and Chris Patadin.
Malteenoes will be without the services of all-rounder Deion Ferrier, who is in St Vincent and the Grenadines with the Guyana team.
According to Coach Ossie Walton, they will field a team in which they have a lot of confidence. National Under-19 captain, Stephen Jacobs, will skipper the team which includes former national all-rounder Orin Forde, Shemroy Barrington, Imran Hassan, Delroy Jacobs, Jeremiah Harris and Howard Chance. This promises to be a keen contest over which Gowkarran Dindyal and Krisendatt Lall will officiate S. Sookdeo is the standby.
In the other semi-final, West Demerara’s Cornelia Ida (CI) takes on Lusignan of East Coast at the Lusignan ground. Former national batting star Rabindranauth Seeram, player/coach of Cornelia Ida, says he is optimistic but thinks it will be a close game that will be decided on first innings points. CI will feature two 19-year-olds in all-rounders Gurdat Harrinarine and Ravindra Ramnarine.
National Under-19 batsman Krishna Deosarran will spearhead the Lusignan team which includes young off-spinner Rajendra Nickbarran, batsman Vishnu Ramjit, and left-arm spinner Imran Khan.
This could be a close match and the umpires are Hortense Isaacs and S. Jaggernauth with Andrew Allen as the standby.
