DCC register nine-wicket win over GDF in first-division cricket
Medium-pacer Carlton Jacques (left) and left-arm spinners Totaram Bishun and Ashmead Nedd undermined GDF’s batting.
Medium-pacer Carlton Jacques (left) and left-arm spinners Totaram Bishun and Ashmead Nedd undermined GDF’s batting.

THE Demerara Cricket Club easily dispatched the Guyana Defence Force by nine wickets in the opening session of the second day in the 2019 GISE/Star Party Rental/Trophy Stall First Division two-day cricket competition yesterday at the Queenstown ground.

The defending champions had dominated the opening day on Saturday and had done enough to all but win the clash before play ended. On Sunday morning, they were tasked with taking a single wicket, which was done in 1.2 overs, and scoring 29 runs after the visiting team failed to add to their overnight total.

Twenty-nine wickets fell on Saturday, 19 of which belonged to the GDF batsmen. DCC won the toss and opted to bowl first. West Indies U-19 left-arm spinner, Ashmead Nedd, led the attack with 5-47 from 12 overs, while fellow left-arm spinner Totaram Bishun supported with 3-22 runs from 5.3 overs.

The lone resistance was Randy Lindore, who played some spanking shots. The 40-year-old finished with 11 fours and two sixes in a top score of 69, but his team succumbed for 110 in 26.4 overs.

Randy Lindore turned back the clock after scoring a half-century in the first innings to go with four wickets.

DCC then raced to 235 before they were bowled out in 39 overs. Joshua Persaud (71—8x4s, 5x6s) and Raymond Perez (32—7x4s) put together a 110-run opening partnership, while teenager Sachin Singh then played a few shots of his own for a quickfire 43 (3x4s, 3x6s). West Indies U-19 cricketer, Tevin Imlach, added 29, batting at four.

The army did the damage with off spin as Lindore and skipper Leon Andrews wrecked the middle and lower order with four-wicket hauls each, while fellow off-spinner, Damian Waldron, finished with a pair.

The visiting batsmen again failed to deliver. Kurt Lovell showed some spunk with 53 (4x4s, 5x6s), while Waldron added 33 (2x4s, 3x6s) and Lindore 20.

Medium pacer Carlton Jacques led DCC’s second innings attack with 4-44, while Bishun, who picked up the last wicket yesterday, finished with 4-23 for a match haul of 7-45 from 12.5 overs.

GDF had something to celebrate when Andrews bowled Perez for six, but 19 unbeaten runs from the in-form Persaud (2x4s) helped the side to victory in four overs.

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