National Under-15 players Ashmead Nedd and Alphius Bookie’s batting led Georgetown to a comprehensive victory over East Coast in the second round of Demerara inter-association cricket at Everest Cricket Club ground yesterday.
Bookie (75) and Nedd (51) shared in a 99 run partnership which helped Georgetown to recover from a shaky position of 56-3 to its eventual score of 210 all out in 48.5 overs. The pair’s batting was enough to give Georgetown a win by 103 runs after East Coast were restricted to 107 all out in 40.3 overs.
It would have been the second successive century stand in as many matches for Bookie and Nedd if they had added just one more run. Bookie was at his