By Delvon Mc Ewan
It was a batsmen friendly weekend in the Georgetown Cricket Association second week of competition for the 2014 season as five centuries and seven half centuries were recorded at the various levels of competition at various venue around Georgetown, last weekend.
Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) batsmen were responsible for four of the five centuries recorded and three of the seven half centuries as the club ended a successful weekend of cricket in the city.
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At GCC Ground, Bourda, DCC won first innings against their archrivals GCC in a game where Christopher Barnwell returned to form with a top score of 150 for his side. After being sent in by GCC, DCC scored 393-5 in 87 overs before declaring. Fifteen-year-old national youth player Sherfane Rutherford (111) and Christopher Barnwell led the way on a pitch that was good for batting.
Rutherford, who opened the batting with the attacking Andrew Lyght Jr., started slowly as Lyght Jr. got down to business early.
DCC lost its first wicket when Lyght Jr. was removed by Joshua Wade with the score on 57. By that time Rutherford had already played himself him hitting four boundaries in one Chidanand Shivram over.
He began to bat with maturity hitting the ball to all parts of the ground as he cruised to his maiden first division century. He was severe on national player Robin Bacchus finding the boundary anytime the bowler was too short or too full.
Barnwell, who is no stranger to success at this level, but has been struggling at the first-class level batted with confidence to register yet another first-division century. Bowling for GCC, Wade took two wickets to finish as the leading bowler for his side.
GCC ended the first day on 33 without loss, with Bacchus on 12 and season first division player Wasim Haslim on 7.
When play resumed on the final day, the pair of Haslim and Bacchus added 28 runs before Haslim was removed for 14 by Barnwell. National four-day captain, Leon Johnson, joined Bacchus and the two batsmen put on 22 runs for the second wicket before Bacchus was bowled by Parks for 43. Six of the GCC batsmen got to 20 without any of them applying themselves for a big score. National pacer Paul Wintz took 5 wickets with only Martin Pestano Belle (33) and Johnson (27) supporting Bacchus’s effort.
Antonel Atwell, who picked up two wickets, also bowled well for DCC who scored 204-3 in their second turn at the crease. Rutherford continued his excellent display of batting, ending on an unbeaten 79 while Lyght Jr. 64 and Barnwell who was also unbeaten at the end on 38 supported well.
At the Malteenoes Sports Club, Ground, Thomas Lands, GNIC took first innings points from the home side as the game ended in a draw.
GNIC recovered from an early set back of two wickets down without a run on the board to record a first innings total of 202 all out in 56.2 overs, with Tony Thompson (31), Anthony Ifill (37) and Dexter Solomon (28) the main contributors. Bowling for Malteenoes Sports Club, Kellon Carmichael was the pick of the bowlers with four wickets receiving support from
Shaquille Williams who took three wickets. In their first innings MSC made 134 all out, with Jamal Naughton and Carmichael making 37 and 34 respectively.
GNIC declared on 110-7 in their second innings, with Ranole Bourne unbeaten on 44 while Ejaz Mohamed made 51. Bowling for MSC, Cordell Mars picked up 4 wickets.
Needing 180 to record a victory, MSC were 31 without loss when the day’s play ended, Nicosi Barker (23) and Hakeem David (5) were the batsmen at the crease.
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Gandhi Youth Organisation (GYO) defeated GDF by 49 runs. GYO 186-9, H. Heerlall 50 and A. Raheim 45, Steven Harris 4-20 defeated GDF 137-9, Marcus Watkins 44 and Randy Lindore 27, Raheim 3-7.
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Three teams recorded outright victories in last weekend’s matches.
At the Gandhi Youth Organisation, ground, DCC defeated GYO by an innings and 28 runs. Scores: GYO, 144 all out in 42.5 overs; W. Walker 76, Yekini Favourite 5-37 and Dennis Squires 3-50.
DCC; 341-4 declared Renaldo Renee 115, Tevin Imlach 107* and Raymond Perez 52.
GYO 2nd innings; 169 all out in 56.1 overs, W. Mohamed 35 and G. Bess 27, Squires 3-24 and L. Smith 3-5.
Third Class defeated Sophia at GNIC by 183 runs. Scores: Sophia, 74 all out in 25.4 overs. Alvin Castello 5-28 and Govinda Moniram 4-31.
Third Class 1st innings; 227 all out in 46.3, Doodram Moniram 39, Kevin Pellew 38, Castello 31, Zalim Rasheed 3-29 and Askaf Shafeek 2-27.
Sophia 2nd innings; 121 all out Zalim Rasheed 24, Dwayne Peters and Volcacy Barrow 23 each, Castello and Moniram 3 wickets each.
TC 2nd innings; 151-9 in 39.5 overs, Ray Bryan 53, Dwayne Peters 3-20.
At University of Guyana, ground, Turkeyen UG defeated Everest by nine wickets. Scores: Everest, 205 all out in 61.2 overs. Kemraj Ramdeen 51 and Wayne Perreira 49. Suresh Dhanai and Dennis Heywood 3 wickets each.
Everest 2nd innings; 122 all out, Mohan Ramdeen 51*, Omesh Danram 4-20.
UG 1st innings; 259-9 dec., Leon Williams 100 and Dhanai 30, Javeed Rasheed 5-60 from 20 overs. UG 2nd innings, 72-1 in 7.2 overs.
