GDF fires out police in military battle

THE latest round of the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) New Building Society (NBS) second-division 40-over cricket tournament continued on Saturday with the GDF and GCC registering victories.

At the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) ground, the home team defeated Transport Sports Club (TSC) by 10 runs after being bowled out for 169 in 31-5 overs and dismissing TSC for 159 in 29. 4 overs.

Leon Andrews hit 34 from 37 balls with three fours and along with Quincy McPherson, who made 55 from 50 balls with two fours and three sixes, gave the soldiers a good start putting together 73 in 9.5 overs before Andrews fell to Raffel Singh.

Damion Waldron contributed with 44 from 38 balls with one four and three sixes, but no other batter reached double figures.
Myhiem Khan took 4-14, while Akeem Redman took two wickets each for TSC who fell 10 short, despite 38 from 44 balls with four fours and a six from Alvin Mohabir, 22 from Redman and 19 from Emmanuel Lewis.

Joshua Jones had 3-29 while Waldron, Zameer Nazeer and DeShawn McDonald supported with two wickets each.
At Bourda, GCC beat Ace Warriors by 162 runs after a fantastic all-round performance from Thaddeus Lovell, who blasted seven fours and three sixes in an explosive 36-ball 64 before returning with the ball to take 5-27.

Lovell was supported by Ryan Hemraj who made 31, Dhanesh Persaud 28 not out and Shahid Vieira who scored 22.
Roger Aarons captured 3-43 while Diquan Murray 2-11 bowled well for Ace Warriors, who were dismissed for 132 in 23 overs.
Rawle Enmore topscored with 32, but only Lawrence Pellew with 20 offered resistance as Josh Charles who took 3-29 supported Lovell for the Bourda Boys.