DCB Inter-Association Under-19 Competition

By Kizan Brumell On In Sports |
Georgetown’s Quincy Ovid-Richardson plays forward in his sterling innings against East Coast in the DCB Inter-Association Under-19 Competition yesterday at the Lusignan Community Centre ground. (Orlando Charles photo)
Georgetown’s Quincy Ovid-Richardson plays forward in his sterling innings against East Coast in the DCB Inter-Association Under-19 Competition yesterday at the Lusignan Community Centre ground. (Orlando Charles photo)

Georgetown stun East Coast

Georgetown remained undefeated in the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) Inter-Association Under-19 competition after comprehensively defeating the East Coast team yesterday at the Lusignan Community Centre ground.

Georgetown’s Quincy Ovid-Richardson plays forward in his sterling innings against East Coast in the DCB Inter-Association Under-19 Competition yesterday at the Lusignan Community Centre ground. (Orlando Charles photo)
Georgetown’s Quincy Ovid-Richardson plays forward in his sterling innings against East Coast in the DCB Inter-Association Under-19 Competition yesterday at the Lusignan Community Centre ground. (Orlando Charles photo)

The scheduled 45-overs game was reduced to 30 overs after overnight and early morning showers made the field unfit for play, but after the weather improved they were able to start at 1:30pm.

Georgetown gained back-to-back victories after winning against East Coast yesterday to add to their dominant victory on Wednesday against West Demerara at the Everest Cricket ground.

After given the opportunity to bat first Georgetown led by a terrific opening partnership from top scorer Quincy Ovid-Richardson and Ryan Rajmangal plummeted to 140–8 in 28 overs but  successfully defended it by restricting the opposition to 94 runs.

Richardson in his belligerent innings of 42 that included five fours and a six played a vital role in seeing the sheen off the ball in the 78-run partnership with Rajmangal who made 30 that included two fours.

When the opening pair gone Georgetown began slipping and lost four more wickets for 28 runs but Dexter Solomon and Andre Stoll then showed some resistance  down to the end of the innings with both contributing 17 each while no other batsman was able to make it into double figures.

Rajendra Naikbarran finished with 3–15 from six overs for East Coast and received support from Ameer Mohammed (2–16), Kevin Franklyn (2–30) and Arif Habib (1–21) while the home team gave away 16 extras.

East Coast got off to a slow and shaky start in their reply and lost both openers to Seon Daniels in four overs with 25 runs on the board and struggled from then on against the economical Demerara bowling attack.

Naikbarran turned in a good all round performance for East Coast but it was in vain although he added a hard fought 41 which included one four and a six to his disciplined bowling and he got a little assistance from Delroy Charles who made 20.

No other batsman was able to get into double figures and East Coast crumbled to 94 in 28.3 overs with Daniels, Totaram Bishun and skipper Ranole Bourne all taking three wickets for 23, 27 and one run respectively while Carl Rambhrose grabbed  1–9 in the disciplined attack that gave away only eight extras.