2013 BCB/Ramcharitar 50-Over
Players from the winning Albion Community Centre Cricket Club pose with their spoils
Players from the winning Albion Community Centre Cricket Club pose with their spoils

Albion champions after defeating Police by 85 runs

ALBION COMMUNITY Centre Cricket Club were last Sunday crowned the 2013 Berbice Cricket Board/Ramcharitar Construction Services-sponsored first division 50 overs champions, after recording a 85-run victory over Berbice Police, despite off-spinner Andel Doris’s five wickets. In the match which was reduced to 45-overs-a-side because of a late start, Albion were sent in to take first strike and lost their opening batsman, Kandasammy Surujnarine (2) in the third over to Michael Newland, with only 3 runs on the board.
Discarded West Indies batsmen Sewnarine Chattergoon and Narsingh Deonarine added 27 for the second wicket before off-spinner Rocky Hutson had Chattergoon caught for 16, at 30 for 2. Deonarine then found a useful partner in Jonathan Foo and they added 64 for the third wicket.
Foo was lbw to Doris for 40 (4×4, 1×6) and 20 runs later, the said bowler dismissed Deonarine for 41 (2×4), before Anthony Bramble 40, (2×4, 2×6) and Veerapen Permaul (8) added 37, after which Doris picked up three quick wickets to reduce Albion to 168 for 7.
The home team did not get much after that and were bowled out for 179 in 39.2 overs with Doris ending with 5 for 51 from 9 overs for Police, who needed to score at a rate of 4 runs an over to record the upset win.
They got a sedate start from their openers, Brentnol Woolford and Leon Andrews, in the face of an all-spin attack and crawled to 28 without loss after 10 overs, but the introduction of national leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo proved fatal for the lawmen from the Ancient County.
He reduced them to 37 for 3, with the scalps of Woolford for 18, Andrews (11) and Philbert Wilburg for 0 in his first three overs, while Deonarine claimed a victim in his second over to leave Police on 42 for 4 in the 17th over.
Albert Sinclair and Rocky Hutson gave Police a glimmer of hope by posting 21 for the fifth wicket, before Sinclair was lbw to Deonarine for 15, after which Hutson and Kwesi Mickle looked threatening.
But after adding 20 for the sixth wicket, Hutson attempted an ill-advised reverse sweep to Gudakesh Motie-Kanhai and was lbw for 16, at 84 for 6, from which Police never recovered and were bowled out for 94 in 31.2 overs, with Veerasammy Permaul snaring two quick victims.
Bishoo ended with 3 for 11, Veerasammy Permaul 2 for 12 and Deonarine who was later named Man-of-the-Match, 2 for 30.
Cash incentives and trophies valued over $80 000 were presented and in a new initiative by the BCB, all winners of the Board’s first division competitions will clash with a Rest of Berbice lineup, in a specially arranged match.
This match will be used to raise funds for the Board as trials and practice, hence Albion will go up against a Rest of Berbice lineup at the Albion Sports Complex ground from 09:00hrs tomorrow.

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