Guyana and Trinidad & Tobago will clash in the final of the WICB President’s Cup 50-overs Tournament tomorrow at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence ground after Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Captain Ramnaresh Sarwan saw Guyana to a six-wicket victory over the Combined Campuses and Colleges team (CCC) last evening.
Chanderpaul was left unbeaten on an even half century after he hit the last ball for four through backward square to help Guyana surpass CCC’s 151 all out from 48.4 overs to reach 152-4 in 40.2 overs.
Sarwan finished on 35 not out.
Mc Clean was the main wicket taker with 2-7 from 3.1 overs whilst Kavesh Kantasingh and Ryan Austin finished with one wicket apiece.
Earlier when CCC won the toss on batted Kjorn Ottley top scored with 26 while he got support from Mc Clean (23) and opener Omar Phillips (22). Off spinner Royston Crandon had 4-24 (9), Devendra Bishoo 3-24 (10) and Veerasammy Permaul 2-30 (9.4).
Guyana started their reply at 16:32 after they bowled out CCC 45 minutes before the stipulated time and lost their first two wickets when the score was 11. Mc Clean bowled Travis Dowlin for 11 and then had Christopher Barnwell caught behind two balls later in the fifth over.
Narsingh Deonarine pulled Mc Clean for six over square leg off the last ball before the interval as Guyana ended the session on 21-2 from seven overs. Upon resumption, Deonarine continued where he left off when he flicked Khismar Catlin over backward square leg for six.
Chattergoon joined in by pulling the same bowler to the square leg boundary.
Catlin had his revenge later in the over when Chattergoon was caught by Ryan Austin at mid on for 13.
His dismissal brought Chanderpaul, who had earlier in the afternoon signed on to the ‘Protect our Caribbean from the effects of Climate Change’ declaration to the crease.
With Chanderpaul working the ball around for singles, Deonarine took the attack to the bowlers before he was caught on the long on boundary by Phillips for 31 in the 21st over.
His knock was decorated two boundaries and two massive sixes and he faced 45 balls. Chanderpaul and Sarwan continued to thrill the crowd (which got larger when Guyana batted) with their occasional exotic stroke play.
Additionally, the CCC bowlers seemed to accept defeat as they found it hard to trouble the accomplished batsmen.
Sarwan started to show glimpses of his form returning by stroking three boundaries in his 54-ball innings.
Earlier, in hot sunshine the CCC team got off to a quiet start as opening batsmen Phillips and Romel Currency found it hard to get the ball past the Guyanese fielders with medium pacer Esaun Crandon keeping things tight. This brought some pressure to bear on the batsmen and Currency was run out for 14 after facing 32 balls when the score was 25.
Crandon’s partner Christopher Barnwell took some stick earlier when he was hit for successive boundaries over mid-on and through extra cover by Nekoli Parris. However, the first ball of off-spinner Royston Crandon’s spell in the 13th over saw Parris being bowled for 12 with the score was 42.
Phillips and Ottley eased on and tried to control the pace by turning over the strike but with the introduction of leg spinner Devendra Bishoo Phillips timidly drove a delivery to Chanderpaul at cover. He made 22 from 55 balls with three boundaries.
Bishoo struck again when he had Kurt Wilkinson trapped lbw for 1 and then had Ottley caught at point by Sarwan as he cut outside the off stump.
Ottley scored 26 from 52 balls.
Off spinner Permaul, bowling in tandem with Bishoo had Chadwick Walton brilliantly caught by a diving Dowlin at a solitary first slip for two as the CCC team tottered on 83-6 in the 30th over.
CCC captain Floyd and Kevin Mc Lean saw the team to its three figure mark in 34.1 overs. When CCC took the batting power-play in the 37th over at 115-6 Reifer and Mc Lean were looking comfortable Reifer found Chanderpaul; on the long on boundary after he chipped to Royston Crandon and was dismissed for 13 (32 balls) at the end of the 38th over.
With the breaking of this 37-run partnership Crandon struck again at the end of the 40th over when he had Caitlin bowled for one playing on the backfoot. At the end of the 41st over when the power-play ended CCC had only scored 10 runs and lost two wickets. Shortly after Mc Lean was caught behind by Delbert Hicks for 23 (49 balls) in the 44th over with the score on 134.
CCC brought up their 150 in the 48 over and in the next over Permaul wrapped up the innings when he had Kavesh Kantasingh caught by Deonarine at short fine leg for 11. CCC were bowled out for 151 in 48.4 overs at 16:21 hours Crandon took 4-24, Bishoo 3-24 and Permaul 2-30.
Scoreboard
CCC innings
O. Phillips c Chanderpaul b Bishoo 22
R. Currency run out (Dowlin) 14
N. Parris b R. Crandon 12
K. Ottley c Sarwan b Bishoo 26
K. Wilkinson lbw Bishoo 1
F. Reifer c Chanderpaul b R. Crandon 13
C. Walton c Dowlin b Permaul 2
K. Mc Lean c wkp Hicks b R. Crandon 23
K. Caitlin b R. Crandon 1
R. Austin not out 5
K. Kantasingh c Deonarine b Permaul 11
Extras: (w-11, lb-1, b-5) 20
Total: (all out from 48.4 overs) 151
FOW: 1-25 (Currency 7.5), 2-42 (Parris 12.1), 3-71 (Phillips 24.4), 4-73 (Wilkinson 26.4), 5-80 (Ottley 28.4), 6-83 (Walton 29.5), 7-120 (Reifer 38), 8-126 (Caitlin 40), 9-134 (Mc Lean 43.3), 10-151 (Kantasingh 48.4)
Bowling
E. Crandon 6-0-18-0
Barnwell 6-0-24-0 (1 w)
R. Crandon 9-0-24-4 (5 w)
N. Deonarine 8-1-21-0
D. Bishoo 10-1-24-3 (1 w)
V. Permaul 9.4-0-34-2 (4 w)
Guyana innings
S. Chattergoon c Austin b Kantasingh 13
T. Dowlin b Mc Lean 11
C. Barnwell c wkp Walton b Mc Lean 0
N. Deonarine c Phillips b Austin 31
S. Chanderpaul not out 50
R. Sarwan not out 35
Extas: (w-11, nb-3, lb- 1, b-1) 16
Total: (for 4 wickets from 40.3 overs) 152
FOW: 1-11 (Dowlin 4.3), 2-11 (Barnwell 4.5), 3-52 (Chattergoon 13.4), 4-61-4 (Deonarine 20.4)
Bowling
K. Mc. Lean 3.1-2-7-2
K. Kantasingh 10-4-11-1
K. Catlin 7.2-0-49-0
R. Austin 10-2-20-1
N. Parris 7-0-35-0
R. Currency 1-0-7-0
K. Wilkinson 2-0-21-0
