… Hand-in-Hand U-19 3-Day Inter-County

DESPITE a late start on day two of their third round Hand-in-Hand U-19 3-Day Inter-County encounter at Everest Cricket Club ground, the Select U-17s turned in an impressive all-round bowling effort to skittle out Essequibo for 145 just before the lunch interval.
In response, at stumps the U-17s were on 77-3 trailing by 68 runs with a couple of batsmen getting starts but failing to carry on.

After Wednesday’s heavy rainfall washed out most of day one, play started yesterday at 12:40hrs. However, all of the Select U-17 bowlers chipped in and eventually bowled out the Essequibians for just 145 off 53.1 overs.
Only opener Orlando Jailall (30), Ameer Singh (29) and Azim Mohamed with 24 managed any innings of substance.

The pick of the bowlers for the Select U-17 was once again off-spinner Chandrapaul Ramraj, who bagged an astonishing 3 for 6 from his 10 overs which included six maidens. He received support from Mervan Prashad who took 2 wickets without conceding a run from his 1.1 overs.

When U-17 took strike, opener Rampertaub Ramnauth was run-out for just one. However, Matthew Nandu and Zeynul Ramsammy built a partnership of 42 before Nandu also fell victim to a run-out, for 24, which included two boundaries and a maximum.

Ramsammy was next to walk back to the pavilion trapped lbw by spinner Lance Roberts for 28 (4×1). At the close Mavindra Dindyal was unbeaten on 21 with Andre Seepersaud not out on one.
Play resumes today at 09:30hrs.