Hinds, Mohabir register tons in runs feast

THE sun was scorching hot, and so were the Transport Sports Club batters as they created carnage at the Malteenoes ground in the Georgetown Cricket Association’s (GCA) New Building Society (NBS) 40-overs second-division cricket tournament on Sunday, powering their team to an emphatic 509-run win against Agricola.
It was a combination of fairly good batting and very ordinary bowling on a flat track and a fast outfield in the biggest margin of victory in any 40-over game in the history of cricket in Guyana as local cricket records tumbled.

Transport’s 563 all-out was the first 550-plus total in any limited-overs cricket match in Guyana, as 21-year-old Adrian Hinds and 18-year-old former National U-19 Captain Alvin Mohabir both galloped to destructive centuries.

National U-15 player Emmanuel Lewis (83), Shamar Apple (69), Myheim Khan (60), and Jerimiah Hohenkirk (54) smashed half-centuries as the demolition of Agricola’s bowling attack continued with boundaries flowing thick and fast.

Hinds, whose 109 came from just 40 balls and was decorated with 11 fours and five sixes, and Hohenkirk, who made 54, played an array of scintillating shots to add 140 for the first wicket before Hohenkirk departed.

Mohabir, whose even hundred lasted 42 balls and included 10 fours and six sixes shared in another century stand with Shamar Apple, who made 69 as the batters ‘peppered’ the boundaries at regular intervals.

Fourteen-year-old Lewis contributed a well-played 83, while Khan stroked an entertaining 60 as the Agricola fielders chased leather in the sweltering heat.
Shamar Bookie was the most successful bowler with 4-87 for Agricola, who were dismantled for 54 in 13 overs in one of most one-sided ‘white ball’ game in the West Indies.
Leg-spinner Reyad Latif captured 4-15, and got support from left-arm spinner Brandon Henry, who had 3-26. (Sean Devers)