Veteran cricketers Anil Beharry and Hubern Evans on Sunday combined to bowl Young Warriors to the 2010 New Building Society second division limited overs title over Tamran Root Cricket Club of Hampshire.
Playing at the Cumberland Cricket ground, Young Warriors triumphed by 31 runs in the 40-overs-a-side affair.
Batting first after winning the toss, Young Warriors, were dismissed for 146 in 35.3 of their allotted 40 overs.
After an opening stand of 23, Young Warriors slipped to 47-3 in the ninth over. They were indebted to a stand of 54 for the fourth wicket between Berbice junior player Linden Austin and Ishwar Singh.
After Austin was dismissed for 47, the rest of the batting collapsed with only Singh 26 and Beharry with 12 reaching double figures.
Michael Ramdihal and Kevin Madramootoo took 3-30 and 3-31 respectively while Dilip Rangasami bagged 2-21.
Satesh Dwarka 1 for 18 and Hemendra Ramdihal 1 for 20 were the other wicket takers.
Needing to score 147 to lift their first ever second division title, Tamran Root suffered a set back in the first over when opener Mohamed Altaf was stumped by wicketkeeper Ishwar Singh off Evans without scoring.
Evans struck again in his second and third overs to send back the aggressive Lionel Seegobin (07) and Alvin Ramdass (10) to leave Tamran Root reeling at 18 for 3 in the fifth over. Tamran Root were in dire straits when Hemendra Ramdihal was LBW for 09 at 31 for 4. But, a fighting fifth wicket partnership of 42 between Vijay Sukhra and skipper Michael Ramdihal gave their supporters hope.
Beharry made sure that Tamran Root never recovered by taking three quick wickets including that of topscorer Vijay Sukhra for a well composed 45.
Alvin Gobin made 22 as the visitors were dismissed for 115 in only 26 overs. Evans took 4-16 and Beharry 3 for 30. Rahaman 1 for 27, Shazad Khan 1 for 19 and Austin 1 for 14 were the other wicket takers.
Evans was named the man of the match in the final while Young Warriors received $60 000.00 and the NBS trophy.
The runners up took home $30 000.00. The eight teams who reached the quarter finals of the tournament received a pair of batting pads worth $9000 each.
