…in Ramesh Sunich birthday match

By Sean Devers

THE USA Tri-State team on a six-match tour to Guyana continued on Thursday night with their only day-night match against a GCA Under-21 Eleven at the DCC Ground, in a game which commenced in bright sunshine and climaxed under lights.

The game was played in celebration of the birth anniversary of owner of Trophy Stall, Ramesh Sunich, who provided the trophies and dinner for both teams.
The tourists batted first on the small DCC Ground, and reached 353/6 when their 50 overs expired on the fast outfield.

Siddarth Kappa reached the boundary ten times, and cleared it five times in his entertaining 102 from 91 balls, and shared in a delightful 105-run partnership with Utkarsh Srivastava, who made a 44-ball 46 innings, with a six and five fours.

Prannav Chettipalayam continued his stunning consistency with a well-constructed 64 from 69 balls, with six fours and five sixes, while Aditya Gupta scored an explosive 49 from just 21 balls, with seven mighty sixes.

Usherdev Balgobin captured 2-39 for GCA U-21s, who did well to reach 292 all-out, as the in-form Balgobin blasted 68 from only 23 balls, six fours and 10 fours.
National U-19 skipper Alvin Mohabir (44), and Shamar Yearwood (42), pushed the local side closer to their target with a 67-run partnership, before both batters threw their wickets away while attempting big shots when well set for half-centuries, while Jerimiah Scott lofted three sixes in a cameo 28, before he was taken on the long-off boundary looking for another six.

Gupta, bowling leg-spin, took 3-45, and got support from Utkarsh Srivastava, 2-16, for the US team, who have played unbeaten in their five games so far.