Yearwood’s ton, 5-fors from Hohenkirk, Phillips give GT title

By Sean Devers
ON a sunlit day at the historic GCC ground Bourda, Georgetown once again showed that they are the best prepared team when easily demolished East Coast by 209 runs in the Demerara Cricket Board’s U-19 Inter-Association 50-0ver U-19 final yesterday.

The in-form Shamar Yearwood scored a magnificent 117 from 102 balls and in 118 minutes with 10 fours and a six and Marvindra Dindyal whose 62 lasted 76 balls, 109 minutes and included four fours and two sixes. The pair added 99 for the fourth wicket to lift the home team to 255-8.

Harricharran, who looked very impressive, captured 5-39 while Haripersaud took 2-35 for East Coast were bundled out in 12 overs for 46.

Only Romel Datterdeen (11) reached double figures as fast bowlers Nehemiah Hohenkirk took 5-22 and Revaldo Phillips 5-24 to run through the batting line-up like sharp knife cutting butter in hot sun.

With vocal support from a fair-sized gathering of mostly parents of the players and members of the touring USA Tri-State team, East Coast invited GT, with a few senior Inter-County batters in the line-up, to bat in good conditions.

The decision seemed to be paying off as GT lost Jadon Campbell (4), Rayan Latiff (14) and National U-19 Captain Alvin Mohabir (6) as Sasenarine Harricharran, Ajay Gainda and Hemraj Haripersaud dented the top order for low scores.

But the left-handed Yearwood and elegant right-handed Dindyal joined forces and after a period of rebuilding, they began to score freely on the good track with Dindyal being the Surgeon and Yearwood the butcher.

But with the score on 154 in the 36th over, the usually elegant Dindyal attempted to ‘slug’ Haripersaud and was caught

Haripersaud also accounted for Zachary Jodha (9) after he had shared in a 58-run partnership with the pugnacious Yearwood at 212-5
Haripersaud then dismissed Yearwood, Phillips (7) and Riyad Latiff (7) to limit the score to under 300.

Yearwood was named Man-of-the-Match and East Coast received the second-place trophy and silver medals, while the city side got the winner’s trophy and gold medals.
Dindyal, Alvin Mohabir and Yearwood were presented with prizes for scoring centuries in the tournament while Harricharran, Hohenkirk and Phillips were awarded for five wickets in the tournament, all of which came in yesterday’s final.

Dindyal (most runs in the preliminaries) and Zahied Mahomed (most wickets in the preliminaries) also collected prizes for the achievements.