Georgetown beat East Bank by 33 runs

ON a day of fluctuating weather conditions at Everest yesterday, Georgetown, led by a useful all-round performance by Jaydon Dowlin, beat East Bank by 33 runs on the DLS system in a truncated game as the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) 50-overs U17 Inter-Association cricket tournament continued.

Due to a wet pitch, the game which was scheduled at 9:30 hours, commenced at 13:00 hours with East Bank winning the toss and opting to field in sweltering heat on a slow outfield in a match reduced to 29 overs.
A stoppage at 22 overs due to rain with the host on 88-5 sent the players scurrying off the field, resulting in 30 minutes being lost and the further reduction in overs, as it became 25-over contest.

The city side managed 114-5 when their 25 overs expired.
Dowlin, the 16-year-old, made 31 from 45 balls with four boundaries and added 35 with National U15 batter Shamar Apple who contributed 15.

Keshawn Silas and Dhanesh Persaud scored 14 each while Jonathan Mentore, made an unbeaten 10 and was the only other batter to reach double figures in the low scoring match.
Silas was looking set for a good score when he hit his wicket with his bat in a rare dismissal.

Dowlin, watched by a handful of fans including his dad, returned with his off-spin to take 2-16 while leggie Dave Mohabir took 3-12.
Samuel Barkoye and Persaud had two wickets each as East Bank were dismissed for 86 in 22.4 overs chasing a revised target of 121 in 25 overs.

Devin Roopnarine top scored with 24 with two sixes but only Renaldo Singh, with one four and a six in 23 before he was last out, put up a fight on a spin-friendly track.
Georgetown’s Emmanuel Lewis took three catches yesterday including the catch of the tournament.

With the score on 30-2, Barkoye found the edge of Sayyad Lakeram (9) and the ball flew high to the right of Lewis at slip for him to take a stupendous one-handed catch.
The tournament continues today with Georgetown playing East Coast at Everest and East Bank facing Upper Demerara at the Queen’s College ground.
The final round is set for the MMZ ground on the West Coast between the top two teams; East Coast and West Demerara.