Boele, Dindyal star in EBD 61-run win over WBD
… EBD declared overall winners

EAST Bank Demerara (EBD) recorded an easy 61-run win over West Bank Demerara (WBD) in the final round of the Demerara Under-17 Inter-association 50 overs tournament yesterday at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground.

They were then declared the winners of the tournament, based on a better net run rate. They collected +0.52 over Georgetown, who secured a net run rate of -0.36.
The victory was engineered by batsman Movindra Dindyal and spinner Marlon Boele. Earlier Dindyal stroke a composed half-century and shared in a decisive 56-run fifth-wicket stand with Rahul Singh, as EBD compiled 181-7 in 50 overs.

EBD won the toss and batted on a flat, dry-looking pitch, but they lost opener Yudister Persaud in the first over when he was trapped leg-before-wicket to medium pacer Joshua Reddy (1-23), without scoring.

However, Singh joined forces with Navindra Persaud and the duo had an extremely edgy start to their innings, but then recovered to shred the West Demerara attack in a second-wicket stand of 80 runs – a stand which was dominated by the right-handed Persaud.
But just when they appeared to have taken full control of proceedings, Singh, the former national Under-15 player, was stumped attempting a wild heave over midwicket off Rajesh Budhram (1-24), for 17.

A mid-pitch collision between Persaud, Shemar Yearwood and wicketkeeper Nicholas Rajpot saw the dismissal of Persaud, run-out for 38.
Persaud was hit in the ribcage area during the collision, and was left motionless on the ground for several minutes, since there were no medical personnel on hand to assess the batsman’s injury.

Thereafter, EBD lost Yearwood (5), leg-before-wicket to off-spinner Andre Seepersaud (2-19), at 96-4, but Dindyal and Singh then took the score to 152 in a measured partnership in which Dindyal progressed to his fifty and during that period.

The stand ended soon after when Seepersaud had Dindyal caught and bowled for 51. The right-hander hit the boundary on five occasions. Singh (15) and Marlon Rawle (0) were the other batsmen to have been dismissed.

In need of a big partnership to make some ground in the run chase, the WBD openers Ushardeva Balgobin and Nicholas Rajpot provided that platform, adding 34 for the first wicket before Balgobin (13) was removed by Sourav Singh.
With the pitch starting to show some variable bounce, scoring became a little difficult, but Rajpot and Seepersaud managed to put together 42 for the second wicket before Rajpot was caught and bowled off left-arm spinner Zakary Jodah for 22.

Thereafter, Boele engineered the batting collapse, with WBD losing their last eight wickets for just 46 runs.
Boele finished with 4-27 while Mohamed Jameer and Jodah supported him with 3-15 and 2-19 respectively.

The presentation will be done on Sunday at the conclusion of the GCB/Dave West Indian Imports Under-15 Inter-county final.