The Guyana Harpy Eagles batsmen made full use of the conditions Tuesday night at the National Stadium as the team concluded its second warm-up match ahead of the Cricket West Indies Regional Super50 tournament. Harpy Eagles climbed to 336 for six from their allotted 50 overs with four batsmen registering half centuries while their bowlers returned to dismiss the Guyana Cricket Board XI for 160 in 30.4 overs, in the end, securing a 176-run win.
Anthony Bramble (16) and Tagenarine Chanderpaul (14) added 51 for the opening partnership before Shamar Joseph removed both of them in consecutive overs but it was Tevin Imlach who owned the night. The wicketkeeper/batsman hammered five fours and two sixes in his two-hour long innings that saw him reaching 80 from 95 balls.
The Demerara batsman added 91 for the fourth wicket with Guyana captain, Leon Johnson, who also chalked up a half century. Johnson made 56 from 78 balls while hitting five boundaries before he was caught by Richie Looknauth off of leg-spinner, Steven Sankar.
With Johnson back in the shed, Sherfane Rutherford joined Imlach to put on an 85-run partnership as Rutherford who raced to 53 from 34 balls. His innings featured five sixes and one four.
Romario Shepherd capped off a splendid innings for the Eagles as he clobbered four sixes and seven fours while rocketing to 61 not out from just 20 balls. He shared an unbroken partnership of 70 with Kevin Sinclair who finished on 13 not out from seven balls. Extras accounted for 34.
Junior Sinclair ended with 2-63 while Joseph returned 2-77, both from 10 overs. In the Select XI’s innings, Shepherd ran through the top order, reducing them to 38 for seven as he picked up 4-7 from four overs.
It took an 83-run, last-wicket partnership between Akshaya Persaud and Quinten Sampson to give the Select XI some amount of hope and frustrate the Eagles bowling.
Persaud ended on 65 not out from 79 balls after hitting six fours and one six while Sampson ended on 55 from 27 balls. His innings featured six sixes and two fours before he was caught and bowled by Veerasammy Permaul, who ended with 3-39. Kevin Sinclair bagged 2-44 while Rutherford and Gudakesh Motie picked up one wicket each.
