..-Bailey finishes with 10-wicket match haul

A MATCH haul of 10 for 120  from seam bowler, Bernard Bailey, overshadowed an aggressive half- century from Paul Tyndell and quality spin bowling from Jason Heyliger as the home team, Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC), romped to victory after earning first innings points in their two-day championship clash against the Police Sports Club.

Nineteen wickets fell on day two of the Georgetown Cricket Association’s Noble House Seafoods Two-Day Second-Division Cricket final, but despite a spirited fightback from the lawmen, they were unable to make up for their poor batting performance in the first innings, which inevitably decided the outcome.

Scores in the game: Police 107 all out in 47.5 overs and 151-9 declared off 30 overs; GCC 144 in 69.2 overs and 69-3 from 21 overs. Result: match drawn.

GCC secured a first innings lead on Sunday morning through the batting of Ronaldo Ali-Mohamed and Timothy McAlmont. The pair added 49 runs for the fourth wicket before Ali-Mohamed (overnight score of 16) was caught behind for 33.

McAlmont, who had scored two on Saturday afternoon, battled to a score of 42 (3x4s), but he had little support as the last five wickets fell for three runs.

Pernell London, who cleaned up the tail, took three wickets for three runs from two overs, while Hemchand Persaud and Heyliger finished with two wickets each.

AGGRESSIVE BATTING

Police in their second innings started aggressively with Tyndell and Reginald Rodrigues storming to 41 in six overs, but the aggression was not well controlled and GCC used it to their advantage.

Their pacers, Bailey and Ali-Mohamed, were tasked with bowling slightly wide outside the off stump, which forced the visitors to make mistakes—and they did.

 Rodrigues (14) was the first to go, as he edged a ball to wicket-keeper, Skipper Khemraj Jaikaran, off the bowling of Bailey. 

Tyndell continued his usually aggressive batting, but he had little support.  Kemol Savory also edged a ball to the keeper, while Andrew Lyght (19), who played some nice ground shots, miss-hit a ball that was gobbled up by Mohamed-Ali running in from backward of square.

Bailey picked up Jason Heyligher and London, while Trevor Benn was run out by an excellent direct hit from Joshua Wade on the boundary ropes.

In the end, Bailey finished with 4-84 from 15 overs  and Ali-Mohamed 2-60 from 15 overs, while Tyndell was left unbeaten on 73 . His team then attempted to bowl out GCC in 21 overs.

Wade, who opened with Seegobin, took the attack to the lawmen, but the introduction of Heyliger swung the pendulum.  The off-spinner extracted bounce and spin from the pitch, which excited the visitors, and they were rewarded. Wade edge one to London at first slip, while Seegobin was struck LBW before Jaikaran was bowled by a beauty of a ball. Ali-Mohamed (27) and McAlmont (06) then batted their team to safety before play ended.