… PSC take first innings from ECC

INDEBTED to centuries from Vishaul ‘Cheesy’ Singh and Jeetendra ‘Sonny’ Sookdeo, backed by a 10-wicket match-haul from left-arm spinner Raj Nannan, hosts Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) defeated Gandhi Youth Organisation (GYO) by an innings and 109 runs in their Georgetown Cricket Association/Hadi’s City Mall Inc. first division two-day competition last Sunday.

In the same tournament, Police Sports Club on the back of a fiery innings from Andrew Lyght Jr snatched first innings points from a game Everest Cricket Club at Camp Road, in a game which saw 40-year-old Shivnarine

Chanderpaul pick up two wickets with his medium pacers.
At the GCC ground, the home team resumed the day on 197 for 2, in reply to GYO’s first innings 82, of which Trenton Liverpool topscored with 29 (5×4) while Abdool Raheim and skipper Surendra Hiralall both made 18 against the bowling of Nannan who took 7 for 34 and Raj Singh with 3 for 22.
The left-handed pair of Sookdeo and the diminutive Singh extended their first day partnership to 114 before Sookdeo, who hit nine fours and two sixes in his 108, was dismissed, enabling national Under-19 all-rounder Ronaldo Ali-Mohammed to partner Vishaul Singh.

They added just over 50 for the fourth wicket, before Ali-Mohamed was dismissed for 34, while GCC made the declaration just before the lunch interval, with Vishaul Singh hitting an unbeaten 122 that was decorated with 15 fours and he had with him, Gavin Singh who was unbeaten on 18.
Raheim was the best of the lot for GYO’s bowlers, picking up 1 for 61, while his side reached 30 for 3 off 10.2 overs at lunch, after being asked to score 268 to avoid an innings defeat – a target they failed to reach despite Garfield DeRouche’s 50 that included five fours.
They fell short for 159, their first triple-figure total in four innings to lose their second consecutive match just after tea, following their embarrassing defeat inside one day at the hands of points leaders Demerara Cricket Club.
Hiralall made good use of three chances offered to him by the home team to support DeRouche with his 46 that included four fours, but with the other batsmen struggling to come to grips with the target and spin duo of their first innings tormentors in Nannan and Gavin Singh and folded, with DeRouche gifting his wicket away.
He was Nannan’s fourth victim of the GYO second innings and 11th of the match overall, as the left-arm spinner ended with 4 for 23 and match figures of 11 for 57, while Gavin Singh took 4 for 21 to follow up his first innings haul.
At Everest, the hosts resumed the day on 219-8 and were dismissed for 262 with Christopher Surat making 34, as off-spinner Jason Heyliger ended with 3 for 63 including the prized scalp of the elder Chanderpaul on the opening day, while Daren LaRose (2-23) and Seon Daniels (2-36) offered support.
In their turn at the wicket, PSC on the back of Lyght’s 88 that was decorated with seven fours and four sixes progressed from 67 for 2 at lunch to 279 all out, after being 216 for 7 at tea, with Royan Fredericks and Daniels supporting Lyght with their 46 and unbeaten 35 respectively, with Kelvin Leitch contributing 29 to the cause as well.
National off-spinner Zaheer Mohamed took 4-29, and got support from Shiv Chanderpaul and Surat who took two wickets each for 46 and 49 runs respectively for ECC, who in their second innings reached 44 without loss, with Chanderpaul’s eldest son Tagenarine hitting an unbeaten 26 and Rajendra Chandrika 18.

(By Calvin Roberts)