The Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club, Cricket Developmental Committee, as part of its programme to develop female cricket, has started to organise weekly matches against male players for Guyana’s only female hard ball team, the RHT Metro Females. The team led by West Indies all-rounder Shemaine Campbelle, easily defeated a Demerara Cricket Club Under-15 (fifteen) Developmental 11 (eleven) by seven wickets, at the DCC ground, and then got the better of the GUYSUCO Training Centre Under-19 (nineteen) team by five wickets at the area ‘H’ Ground.
Playing at the DCC ground, the visitors invited the home team to take first strike and ‘skittled’ them for 113 (one hundred and thirteen) in 23.5 of their allotted twenty-five overs.
B. Mootoo 18 and J. Jones 19 were the only players to reach double figures, as extras contributed a healthy 36 (thirty-six); West Indies pacer Evra Giddings 4 for 10, Shaunda Vanderstoop 2 for 7, and Plaffina Millington were the main wicket takers.
In response, Rose Hall Town Metro raced to 115 for 3 in eighteen overs, with West Indian player Shemaine Campbelle striking an attractive unbeaten fifty-eight (58) with six boundaries, while her cousin Sherica Campbelle’s 26 and S. Vanderstoop’s 22 (twenty-two) not out offered support as Dereck Greaves claimed 2 wickets for 26 runs for DCC.
On Sunday last at the Area ‘H’ Ground, the GUYSUCO Training Centre were all bowled out for 101 in 20 overs, as the Metro Female bowlers were backed by brilliant fielding.
Altaf Mohamed 21, Fizal Ali 12, and A. Brijkumar 17 were the top scorers for the visitors, as Evra Giddings claimed 2 wickets for 23 runs (5 overs), medium pacer Sherica Campbelle 3 for 15, Melanie Henry 2 for 22, and Sheneta Grimmond 2 for 13.
RHT Metro reached 104 for 5 in response off 21.2 overs, as Shemaine Campbelle top scored with 30 and received support from Melanie Henry 16, Sherica Campbelle 20, and S. Vanderstoop 15; bowling for GUYSUCO Training Centre, N.Charran took 2 wickets for 12 runs.
Secretary/CEO of the RHTYSC Hilbert Foster disclosed that the club will be investing heavily in its female section in 2016.
The section presently has 14 players and efforts would be made to attract at least another six players.
He also expressed disappointment that no other club in Guyana has a female section, and this is forcing the RHTYSC to organise matches against males for the RHT Metro team.
Present members of the RHTYSC female team are: Shemaine Campbelle, Erva Giddings, Melaine Henry, Sheneta Grimmond, Marian Samaroo, Diana Prahalad, Shaunda Vanderstoop, Jackie Singh, Niketa Toney, Aleema Arokium, Diana Pertab, P.Lynch, Sherica Campbelle and Alisha Hicks.