WICB Regional U-19 3-Day C’ships

Baldeo and Ramcharran bowl Windwards out for 139

HOST Guyana, who were led by some discipline bowling from the spin pair of Balchand Baldeo and Shiraz Ramcharran, were in a commanding position at the end of the rain truncated first day of their second round West Indies Cricket Board Regional Under-19 three day encounter against the Windward Islands, at the Everest Cricket Club ground late yesterday.

After seeing the entire first session being abandoned due to seepage in some parts of the outfield, Guyana winning the toss and opting to field first, bowled out their opponents for 139 from 62.4 overs, led by Baldeo’s 4 for 29 and Ramcharran’s 2 for 33.
At the close of the extended day’s play, Guyana were 44 without loss with Shimron Hetmyer and Tagenarine Chanderpaul their not out batsmen on 26 and 17 respectively, as they trailed their opponents, who had earlier struggled to 63 for 5, by 95 runs heading into today’s penultimate day action.
Earlier in the contest, Gidron Pope started briskly with boundaries off Kemo Paul (1 for 11) and debutant fast bowler Niall Smith, but the introduction of Baldeo in the sixth over of their innings, resulted in the fall of wickets rapidly for Windward Islands.
Pope was first to go, caught by Hetmyer at slip off Baldeo at 27 for 1 which soon became 32 for 3, following the quick demise of Tonis Simon (02) and Melvin Gordon (13), before Kersakie Jno-Lewis (12) and his skipper Roland Cato (11) pushed the score to 55, with the 50 coming from 23.3 overs.
Disaster struck for the visitors who had won their first round game against Trinidad and Tobago comfortably, when both Jno-Lewis and Cato were dismissed, with Chanderpaul taking a leaping catch at midwicket to remove Cato off Damion Waldron (1 for 8).
Anson Latchman (22) and innings topscorer Ryan John (27) added 40 valuable runs to push the score beyond the 100 run mark, with John hitting three fours and a six off Baldeo, while Latchman helped himself to two fours, with the 100 coming up from 38.5 overs.
The tea break was taken at 103 for 6, following the dismissal of Latchman who got a thick outside edge from Baldeo into the waiting gloves of Kemol Savory-one of three catches for the diminutive wicketkeeper.
On the resumption of play, Guyana removed John, Doran Edward (07), Sherman Lewis (15) and Craig Phillip (00) to wrap up the innings off 62.4 overs, leaving Deron Hypolite unbeaten on 4.
In their reply, Hetmyer and Chanderpaul, two of the home team’s most experienced batsmen, skipper Brian Sattaur the other, started positively rattling off boundaries off the bowling of Lewis and Phillip, even as Chanderpaul eased Hypolite down the ground for his third four in fading light, before play was stopped due to bad light at 17:42hrs.
Play is expected to commence at 0:900hrs today, to make up for the lost time yesterday.

(By Calvin Roberts)

 

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