FORMER Guyana U-19 cricketer, Looknauth Chinkoo and former Demerara Senior Inter-County cricketer, Yutesh Dhanpaul, scored half-centuries en route to a 100-run Meten-Meer-Zorg Cricket Club (NY) victory when they tackled Ocean 11 CC in the New York National Cricket League (NYNCL) Saturday 30-over competition over the weekend.
The predominantly Guyanese Meten-Meer Zorg club, which is currently in the top three in Group B of the league, batted first and scored 252-8 from their 30 overs.
After both openers fell cheaply, Dhanpaul joined Chinkoo at the crease and the two batted for almost nine overs, adding 99 runs in the process.
Dhanpaul fell first after having scored 64 runs from 35 balls. He belted six sixes and five fours during his innings.
Chinko also scored 64, but from 41 balls with four fours and four sixes.
Middle-order batsman, Ewart Nicholson, supported with a blitz of an innings, 45 runs (5X6s, 1X4) from 20 balls, which helped to push the score to 252-8 by the end of the 30th over.
K Singh led Ocean 11 with 3-27 from four overs.
The top-order batsman then struck a half-century as his team attempted to chase down the needed total. His 62 runs (6X6s, 2X4s) from 45 balls was the lone shining light for the side as Nicholson bowled him and spun webs around the other batsmen. The Trinidadian cricketer’s off-spin bowling picked up 4-40 from six overs.
Eventual Man-of-the-match, Chinkoo, also got two wickets with his off-spin, while he was also instrumental in a run-out and a catch, which helped to further undermine the batting side.
In the end, Ocean 11 succumbed for 152 in 26 overs.