Half centuries from Tagenarine Chanderpaul, Askhaya Persaud and Romario Shepherd paced West demerara to 346 all out on the first day of their final round match of the GCB CGI Franchise League match against Essequibo.
Played at the Tuschen ground, Chanderpaul (54), Askhaya Persaud (54) and Romario Shephard (51) all made half centuries while Raymon Reifer contributed 49, Chabriraj Ramcharan 43 and Safraz Esau scored 35 in the strong batting effort by West Demerara.
Bowling for Essequibo, Anthony Adams took 5/68 while Akinie Adams had 2/64.
In reply, Essequibo were 87/3 with Kemo Paul on a blistering 43 not out (1×4 and 5x6s). Romario Shephard has so far taken 3/34.
At the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC), ground, Bourda, Upper Corentyne won the toss, batted and were dismissed for 224 with Anthony Bramble top scoring with 93 and Assad Fudadin making 45. Bowling for Georgetown, Gajanan Suknanan bagged 6/78 while Kellon Carmichael took 2/45.
Georgetown in reply were 116/2 with Robin Bacchus not out 55 and Christopher Barnwell not out on 10. Sunil Singh 29 and Andrew Lyght Jr., 17 were the batsmen dismissed. Eon Hooper and Keon Sinclair are the wicket takers so far.
At Port Mourant, West Berbice were dismissed for 174 with Raffel Estraido top scoring with 55 while Leon Andrews supported with 39.Bowling for Lower Corentyne, Veerasammy Permaul had 4/56, Kassim Khan took 3/38 and Raun Johnson took 2/57.
Lower Corentyne in reply were 283/3 at the close of play. Opener Surujnarine Kandasammy is unbeaten on 127 and Seon Hetmyer is not out on 51. Jonathan Foo made 42 and Gajanand Singh 26. Collis Butts, Andrew Dutchin and Brandon Bess have so far taken a wicket each.
At Enterprise, the home team, East Coast Demerara could only muster 125 all out batting first. Bhaskar Yadram top scored with 31, Paul Wintz made 22 and Chandrapaul Hemraj 20. Bowling for East Bank Demerara, Stephen Harris had figures of 3/40, Totaram Bishun 3/12 and Stephen Jacobs 2/25.
East Bank Demerara in reply were dismissed for 165 earning a first innings lead of 40 runs. Deonarine Seegobin struck 56, Sherfane Rutherford 35 and Tevin Imlach 30. Bowling for East Coast Demerara, Ameer Khan took 3/24, Chandrapaul Hemraj 3/38, Kamesh Yadram 2/1 and Paul Wintz 3/39.
Batting a second time facing a 40 run deficit East Coast Demerara were 34/0 with Bhaskar Yadram 26 not out and Keon Roberts on 8.
Play continues today from 09:30 hours.
