A pugnacious, maiden century from Rawle Enmore assisted by a half century from Orande Douglas and a good all round game from captain Abzal Gafoor guided Ace Warriors Cricket Club to a resounding 202-run victory over Diplomats as action in the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA)/ Beharry Champion Products limited overs second-division competition continued Saturday.
Playing at the Ghandi Youth Organization (GYO) ground in a match that could have been termed the battle of the newly formed clubs, Ace Warriors proved their superiority from the tossing of the coin which they also won.
Batting first, Ace Warriors led by openers Enmore and Douglas posted 186 runs for the first wicket with Enmore slamming 126 and Douglas, 86 as Ace Warriors reached 316-6 at the end of their 40 overs.
Douglas struck 10 sixes and nine fours in his innings of 86 while Enmore also featured in a second wicket stand of 126 with his skipper Gafoor.
In Diplomats’ turn at the wicket, they found the bowling of Gafoor too much to handle and crumbled to 112. Roger Aaron supported Gafoor with 2-17. Points; Ace Warriors (24) Diplomats (4)
At Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) ground, visitors Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) went under to the home team by three wickets.
MSC batted first and were bowled out for 127 from 32.1 overs with Danny Narayan making 64.
He received support from Randy Lindore who made 26 as Dennis Squires (2-18) former Demerara under-19 medium fast bowler Edward Burnett (2-21), Matthew Marques (2-28) and Kester Harcourt (2-9) did the damage with the ball for DCC.
In reply, Linden Lyght with 27 along with 17 and 16 from Guyana/TCL under-19 players Royston Alkins and Trevon Griffith respectively enabled DCC to gallop to 128-7 from 23 overs.
Seon Daniels with 3-47 and former national under-19 off spinner Sean Devers (2-13) tried desperately to bowl their team to a victory, but the total was a meagre one.
Points DCC 15, MSC 5.
Only one match was played yesterday involving Transport Sports Club (TSC) and GYO at GYO.
TSC took first strike in the game which was reduced to 27 overs due to early morning rain and made 226-7 with Stephen Alves topscoring with 66.
Marcus Watkins made 32 and Leon D’Aguiar 22 not out as Orle Dawson bagged 2-33 and Ricardo Devers, 2-45 for GYO.
In reply, the home team could only muster 129-9 from their overs as they found the bowling of Kevin Ross (4-18) and Carl Hilliman (3-29) too much to handle. Demerara under-15 batsman Alex Ramalho with 37 and fast bowler Andre Stoll 28 were the only batsmen to offer resistance to the TSC bowling.
Points TSC 19, GYO 5.
Action in the competition is set to continue this weekend. (Calvin Roberts)
