ANNA Regina Multilateral School managed to defend a target of 99, to beat Charity Secondary by 45 runs, when play in the 2017-2018 Guyana Cricket Board/Demerara Mutual Life Assurance Society Limited/National Sport Commission/National Secondary Schools Cricket League (GCB/DMLAS/NSC/NSSCL) continued.

At Imam Bacchus ground on the Essequibo Coast, Anna Regina won the toss and elected to bat. Their openers Kamesh Lall and national youth player Sheldon Charles added 32 before Charles was dismissed, caught off the bowling of Montly for 22.

Lance Roberts joined Lall and together they took the score to 61, before Lall was brilliantly caught off the bowling of Roniel Gobin for a defiant 32.
However, with the dismissal of Lall, the remaining Anna Regina batsmen found scoring a difficult task, with the last six wickets falling for just 33 runs.

They eventually ended on 98-8 when their allotted overs expired. Bowling for Charity Secondary, Roniel Gobin took 3-8, while Montly Boyan, Tekchan Dialla and Desmond Carmen each took one wicket.

In reply, Charity made heavy work of victory target of 95, reaching 49-8 when their allotted overs expired.

Desmond Carmen was the only Charity player to reach double figures, with 11.
Bowling for Anna Regina Multilateral, Badesh Parsatam claimed 3-7, while there was a wicket each for Raphael David, Lall, Roberts, Raj Ramgobin and Charles.