– Everest also record win over MSC
DESPITE a pugnacious half- century from Christopher Deonarine, Gandhi Youth Organisation (GYO), who inflicted a humiliating defeat on Transport Sports Club last week, were defeated by Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) at the Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) ground ,yesterday, in their Georgetown Cricket Association/Carib Beer first division T20 competition.Also in victorious mode was Everest Cricket Club who defeated MSC in the second match of the competition at the same venue, but it was Deonarine who set tongues wagging at the venue, with his boisterous hitting to all parts of the ground.
Deonarine struck seven sixes and three fours in his 44 balls 72, which together with Garfield DeRouche’s 35 (27balls, 2×4, 2×6) and 31 from former Guyana and West Indies Under-19 left hander Kwame Crosse, piloted GYO to 163 for 6 from their 20 overs.
Deonarine and Crosse added 58 for the second wicket, following the early demise of Abdool Raheim who was run out for 2, before Crosse was caught low down by Joshua Wade at long on off Limacol Caribbean Premier League’s Amazon Warriors selectee Robin Bacchus, as he looked to hit the bowler over that area.
Deonarine soldiered on despite losing Crosse, hitting boundaries at will including a big six off Treon Forde that saw the ball landing inside the Tutorial High School compound, before he holed out to Chidananand Shivram at long off, at 130 for 3 in the 16th over.
Some belligerent hitting from DeRouche, which included two sixes in the final over bowled by Ricardo Ali Mohammed (2 for 35), piloted GYO to their eventual total, with Bacchus and Forde picking up a wicket each for GCC, who in reply lost Martin Pestano-Belle (09), caught low down by DeRouche off his own bowling.
Bacchus worked the ball around, picking up the odd singles while the loose balls were dispatched for boundaries, but after chalking up 46 from 35 balls with seven fours and a six, he was lbw to Deonarine who deceived the left handed batsman with a quicker one through the air.
Gavin Singh topscored with 47 scored off 25 balls with five fours and two sixes for GCC before he was run out, but the group leaders had nothing to worry about, as Ali Mohammed 21 (8balls, 2×4, 2×6) capitalised on a chance given to him by DeRouche, by hitting Deonarine for two sixes in the penultimate over and completed the match with a four through backward point off a no ball from Surendra Heeralall.
In the second match of the day’s double- header, the home team took on Everest and asking their opponents to bat first saw them posting, what turned out to be, an imposing 146 for 8 from their 20 overs.
Khemraj Ramdeen 41 (2×4, 1×6), Saeed Mohammed 40 (3×4, 2×6) and Troy Gonsalves 23, which included back to back sixes struck off Mark Cumberbatch, were the principal scorers for the Camp Road based Everest lineup, with Ramdeen and Mohammed adding 71 for the third wicket from 9.5 overs.
Vishal Narayan took 4 for 35 and skipper Kellon Carmichael 3 for 7 for MSC, who in reply were bowled out for 139 off the final delivery of their 20th over, with Carmichael returning with the bat to topscore with 36 (3×6, 2×4).
Jamal Norton offered support with his 33 that included five fours, Shaquille Williams got 19 and Narayan 15, but that aside, the home team batsmen struggled to come to grips with the visitors bowling, led by Christopher Surat who took 3 for 26 and Riyad Sattaur’s 2 for 11 for the victors.
By Calvin Roberts