…Deonandan spearheads RHT Farfan and Mendes Ltd into semifinals

ROSE Hall Town Farfan and Mendes Ltd Under 15 team marched into the semifinals of the Berbice Cricket Board/ Dr Amarnauth Dukhi Under 15 tournament after defeating archrivals Tucber Park Cricket Club by 84 runs at the Area H ground.

The team will now face Rose Hall Canje this weekend with Albion already reaching the finals of the tournament.
Rose Hall Town won the toss in humid weather and quickly lost opener Munesh Rampersaud LBW to Rohlehr for 2 to be 11 for 1 in the 3rd over.

Opener Bisram Narine (12) and Akash Sukhall (6) were then dismissed by national left arm spinner Gilbert Griffth to leave the home team shakily placed at 34 for 3 in 13 overs.
Vice captain and national player Sohil Mohammed and the talented Matthew Perriera then added a crucial partnership of 51 for the fourth wicket before Mohammed was out LBW for a well composed 32 by medium pacer Beaton at 85 for 4 in the 22nd over.

Perriera, a Berbice Under 15 player was joined by national u-13 player Tameshwar Deonandan and together the pair added 101 for the 5th wicket. Perriera struck 8 delighted boundaries in his well-played 49 while the free scoring Deonandan hit nine boundaries in his majestic 55.
Perriera was caught behind off medium pacer Ramnauth while Rohlehr got rid of Deonandan at 190 for 6.

National u-13 player, Leon Reddy was left unbeaten on 12 not out with two boundaries along with Raffel McKenzie on 2 not out as RHTFM ended on an impressive 212 for 7 off their allotted 45 overs.

Needing to score 213 from 45 overs to advance to the semifinals, Tuber Park lost openers Kuten and De Jonge for 2 and 1 respectively to the pacy Raffel McKenzie to be 12 for 2 in the 3rd over.
They never recovered and were eventually dismissed for 12 from 27.2 overs.

Mc Pherson scored with a solid unbeaten 43 with five boundaries while Sinclair (20) offered some resistance at the end. McKenzie 2 for 23, Munesh Rampersaud 2 for 20 and Dinesh Singh 3 for 7 were the best bowler for Rose Hall Town while medium pacer Reddi 1 for 18 and off spinner Balraj Narine 1 for 19 also bowled well.