Tucber Park and Young Warriors Cricket Clubs booked spots in the semi-final of the Berbice Cricket Board/Banks Beer first-division, two-day, third and final round yesterday.
At Bush Lot, Tucber Park earned first innings points over West Berbice after responding to West Berbice’s 185 first innings score with 242 all out. At stumps on the final day, West Berbice reached 151-6.
Tucber Park were indebted to Martin Singh who top scored with 73. His knock included eight fours and four sixes. Singh was supported by Jamal LaFleur who made 66 highlighted by three sixes and seven fours while Clifton Lindie made 32. Keyron Fraser was the pick of West Berbice’s bowlers taking 4-46.Leon Andrews (2-82) and Andrew Dutchin (2-35) were the other wicket takers.
West Berbice’s second innings was guided by Andrews, who capped off an all-round dominance with an even half century that was laced with nine boundaries. Quacy McPherson and Dutchin were the two batsmen at the crease, unbeaten on 36 and 10 respectively. Troy Mickle bagged 3-31.
Over at Cumberland, Young Warriors came within 11 runs of an outright win but still extinguished Blairmont’s chance of qualifying on first innings points.
Blairmont were bundled out for 115 and Young Warriors resumed on 82-2 before being dismissed for 187 with Carl Gilgeous carrying his overnight score of 13 to 55. Kevin Jawahir and Nigel Deodat picked up four wickets each.
In Blairmont’s second innings, an 84-run opening stand between Ricardo Ramdehol (63) and Zaman Zazeer (46) wiped off the deficit before Javid Karim came in to stroke 45 and set
the hosts 139 to win.
Seon Hetmyer picked up 5-40 to help contain Blairmont to 209 all out.
Hetmyer returned to stroke 63 and looked to guide his side to victory but with bad light, Young Warriors closed on 128-7 with Deodat taking four wickets once more.
At Port Mourant, Rose Hall Canje earned a consolation victory by beating Port Mourant by 10 wickets.
Rose Hall Canje built on their two-run lead and moved from 139-9 to 178 all out, responding to the hosts first innings score of 137. Isai Thorne led the resistance and gave his team a 54-run lead with 35. Madan Budram picked up 3-38 while Michael Mucklall took 2-28.
However, Port Mourant crumbled for 63 all out, leaving Rose Hall Canje needing just 24 to win. Michael Campbelle stunned Port Mourant’s batting order with pace and bounce to pick up 5-18 before off-spinner, Budram Ramsarran finished off Port Mourant’s woes. Ramsarran sent down 17 deliveries without having a run scored off of him and picked up four scalps, including a hat-trick which removed Tyrese Sealy, Andy Mohan and Mark Ramalho. Kedar Amsterdam finished on 20 not out to see his side over the line.
Meanwhile in another dead rubber, Rose Hall Town Namilco Thunderbolts and Albion Community Centre Cricket Club played to a tense draw with Albion reaching 134-7 in pursuit of 183 for victory.
Thunderbolts resumed on 13 without loss but were bowled out for 177 which, coupled with a nine-run first innings lead, set Albion a realistic total under decent conditions.
Thunderbolts lost their way early on but Junior Sinclair blasted four sixes and three fours to top score with 59.
He was dropped on 34 and added 39 for the third wicket with his older brother, Jason, who was dropped on 19 and went on to make 29.
Left-arm spinner, Kelvin Umroa once again troubled the Thunderbolts’ batsmen to pick up 6-51 and finish with a match haul of 12-105. Umroa found support from Sharaz Ramcharran who bagged 3-21.
Albion lost their talisman, Kandasammy Surujnarine who was trapped leg before wicket to off-spinner, Eon Hooper with only 10 runs on the board before rain stopped play for 30 minutes.
Nevertheless, Ramcharran returned to top score with 33 but Delbert Hicks, who picked up a five-wicket haul in the first innings returned to get the break through and eventually end with 3-25.
Albion held on for the draw with an unbroken 52-run stand for the eighth wicket between Rayad Karim (29) and Ramesh Kassinath (20).
