By Colin Benjamin
Led by sterling all-round performances by skipper Anthony Adams and Ricardo Adams (no relation), Essequibo scored a morale boasting 54-run victory over Demerara in the opening round of the 2011 Guyana and Trinidad Mutual (GTM) Under 19 limited overs tournament at the Providence Stadium, yesterday.
Essequibo skipper Anthony Adams won the toss end kept up the captain’s tradition when teams play on the docile Providence wickets of electing to bat first.
But they were soon in early trouble as they lost opener Kevin Boodie caught in the slips off the impressive new-ball bowling of Kevin Ogle for three, to leave Essequibo 14 for 1 in the seventh over.
By the end of the first 10 mandatory