– Jaguars’ snatch victory from the jaws of defeat

PLAYED in sunny conditions at the Enmore Community Centre on the East Coast Demerara, Berbice Caimans beat Essequibo Anacondas by six wickets while Demerara Pitbulls lost to Essequibo Jaguars by one wicket as action in the Guyana T10 Blast continued yesterday.
In the first match, Anacondas opted to bat on a flat track and made 74-7 when their 10 overs expired on the large ground.

Caimans reached 75-4 in 9.2 overs to hand top placed Anacondas only their second loss in nine games.
Ushredeva Balgobin, who reached the boundary once and cleared it twice 26 shared in 29-run opening stand in three overs with Kevin Boodie who blasted 20 from 11 balls with three fours and a six as they got the Anacondas off to a blistering start.

Boodie was removed by Kevlon Anderson who has a First-Class 5-wicket haul before Keemo Paul (0) and Balgobin fell to off-spinner Myhiem Khan.
Spinner Aryan Persaud got rid of Thaddius Lovell (2), Alvin Mohabir (0) and Raymond Perez (9) in the space of a run to leave Anacondas on 60-7.
Anthony Adams, unbeaten on 13 with a six and Kwasi Mickle (2) then added 14 as Persaud (who was on a hat-trick) finished with 3-3 while Khan took 2-13.

The Caimans slipped to 17-2 after pacer Bruce Vincent sent back Alex Algoo (1) and West Indies all-rounder Kevin Sinclair (5).
Jonathan Van Lange, who represents Guyana in Table Tennis, clobbered two sixes and two fours in a 12-ball 23 before he was bowled by left-arm spinner Adams at 42-3.
Anderson unbeaten on 21 from 18 balls with two boundaries and Sankar (10) took the score to 69 before Sankar departed off an expensive Vincent who had 2-31.

In the day’s second match, Pitbulls led by an unbeaten 42 with four sixes from 22 balls from Damian Vantull and an attractive 35 from 24 balls with four fours and a six; reached 94-6 from their allotted 10 overs with left arm spinner Ashmead Nedd taking 1-13 from his two overs.
Jaguars were wobbling on the ropes on 36-7 before Nedd who smashed three fours in a pugnacious 21 from just nine balls and Dwaine Dick who made a brutal 27 from 13 balls with two fours and two sixes, hit some mighty blows as they added 44 for the eighth wicket.

But Chris Barnwell removed them both in the space of a run to leave the score on 81-9 in 8.5 overs.
Neil Smith, unbeaten on 15 from six balls with a four and a the winning six and Demitri Cameron (2) ensured the Jaguars roared to a come from behind win with four balls to spare.
Malcolm Hubbard (3-16) and Barnwell (2-11), Golcharran (2-10) and Leon Swamy (2-23) could not prevent the Jaguars reaching 100-9 to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. (Sean Devers)