MALTEENOES Sports Club (MSC) all-rounder Kellon Carmichael last week returned to Guyana, following another successful season with Trinidad and Tobago’s Aranguez Sports Club (ASC) for whom he represented alongside his MSC club mate Dion Ferrier. According to Carmichael, who is a former national Under-19 fast bowler, his sojourn with the adopted club was encouraging and great, since the club was promoted from second division to the premier league for next year’s season.
“We won one trophy, which came in the two-day league, while we ended as runner-up in the T20 and lost via net run rate in the 40 overs tournament at the semi- final stage, due to rain. Overall, the performance of the club was great.
In the two-day competition, we won five out of six games by an innings and the other by nine wickets, while rain played havoc with three of the games, without a ball being bowled. Despite these blunders, we still won the tournament convincingly by 40 points, ending on 157 points,” said Carmichael.
With regard to his contribution to the team, Carmichael scored 221 runs in the six two-day championship games his team played, with a top score of 57 against Explorers Cricket Club, while he took 33 wickets including a best of 5-14 against Santa Cruz.
Even though ASC lost the t20 final to Munroe Road Cricket Club, for which Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club’s Royston Crandon represented, Carmichael’s contribution to his team reaching that stage of the tournament was tremendous as well.
He aggregated 157 runs from five matches in the T20, where he was asked to play the role as a pinch-hitting opening batsman, with a highest score of 66 (34 balls; 8×4, 4×6) against Queen’s Park Cricket Club in the semifinals.
He took seven wickets with a best of 3 for 10, which came in the final of the t20 competition, in which Crandon, Ferrier and himself failed to score with the bat – a feat that occurred for the first time in the season for Carmichael.
In the 40 overs competition, the 23-year-old soft-spoken Carmichael, took 12 wickets with a best of 3 for 26 against Prisons Sports Club, while he failed to bat in the three preliminary round games ASC played, as they bowled out the opposition for double digits total.
Asked if he will be going back next year, Carmichael, who was awarded by ASC for being the best batsman in the T20, best bowler in the two-day and one of the top five players for the year, replied in the affirmative, while for now his aim is to find a place in the Demerara team and later on the national team, for the Regional Super50 competition.