Yesterday, on another hot day the Select X1 and East Coast registered victories in the latest round of the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) 50 overs U-15 Inter-Association cricket tournament.
At the Farm ground on the East Bank of Demerara, the home team were dismissed for 105 in 23 overs as Ganesh Appanah scored 19 with three fours, Vinesh Kalpoo 18 with four fours and Tunil Suraj 10 with four fours were the only batters who got into double figures.
Select X1’s Captain Shahid Ramzan captured 4-13 and got support from Jasani Craig who had 3-19 while Aditya Khan, Azariah Duncan and Saurav Persaud had a wicket each.
The Select XI responded with 106-4 in 18 overs on the small ground as the inform Ramzan, who took his second consecutive Man-of-the-Match award, was left unbeaten eight short of his first fifty.
The left-handed Ramzan finished on 42 not out from 40 balls with four boundaries to follow up his undefeated 45 against West Demerara on Wednesday.
The pint-size little right-hand Nathan Puran hit three boundaries in his 16 from 29 balls.
The Select X1 have won two of their three matches with their only loss coming at the hands of the city team who have won both of their games and drew the bye yesterday.
In the other game at the LBI ground on the East Coast of Demerara, the host defeated West Demerara by 54 runs.
East Coast were bowled out for 153 in 33.1 overs with Man-of-the-Match Satindra Shiwdarsan with seven boundaries scored with 31. Aaron Persaud got 24 and Julia Dindyal chipped in with 21.
Pacer Patrice Frashur again bowled well taking 4-34 while Alwin Williams had 3-25.
West Demerara were blown away for 99 as Shiwdarsan returned with the ball to take 3-22.
The tournament continues on Saturday when West Demerara take on East Bank at Meten-Meer-Zorg and Georgetown faces East Coast at LBI.
The final round will be contested on Sunday when the Champion will be crowned.