Imlach and Nandu bat Guyana to an emphatic win over CCC to remain unbeaten

GUYANA Harpy Eagles (GHE) joined the Leeward Islands Hurricanes and Trinidad and Tobago Red Force with two wins from two matches when they defeated the Combined Campuses and Colleges by eight wickets yesterday at the Providence Stadium on the fourth and final day of their second-round CWI 4-day First-Class Championship.

Set 165 to win, Guyana, led by a 147-run second wicket stand between Skipper Tevin Imlach and Matthew Nandu, reached 168-2.
After Raymond Perez (2), who opened in place of the injured Tagenarine Chanderpaul, was bowled by pacer Akeem Jordon in the solitary over Guyana batted before Lunch.

After the interval, Imlach followed up his unbeaten 126 in the first innings with a masterful 80 from 125 balls with nine fours and added 147 for the second wicket with Matthew Nandu, who survived three chances to finish on 69 not out from 138 balls and decorated with seven boundaries.

The 28-year-old West Indies Test player played an array of audacious shots on both sides of the wicket including sweeps and reverse sweeps against the spinners before LBW to Jamaican leg-spinner Abhijai Mansingh with Guyana sensing victory.

Kevlon Anderson, who scored 102 against Barbados, was not out on 11 with two boundaries.
Nandu, who was born in Canada to former Guyana First-Class leg- spinner Arjune Nandu, was with him unbeaten for the second consecutive game.

Earlier, CCC resumed the final day in brilliant sunshine on 32-3 enjoying an overall lead of 64 but with the score on 41, a pumped-up Joseph sent the off stump of Andre Bailey (5) cart-wheeling. Shaqkere Parris joined Damel Evelyn and after Anderson had dropped Parris at first slip off Shamar Joseph, the pair carried the score to 105 with a solid 64-run partnership before Veerasammy Permaul got rid of Evelyn two short of a fifty.

Renaldo Ali-Mohammed was on a hat-trick when he had Avinash Mansingh (4) LBW and bowled Akeem Jordon for a duck with successive balls to leave CCC on 113-7.

Parris (39) and Avinash Mahabirsingh, who hit a couple of fours and a six in his 16, were removed by Permaul to end the CCC innings since first-innings centurion Kyle Corbin could not bat due to a shoulder injury.

Guyana ill face the West Indies Academy with the pink ball at the Providence Stadium from next Wednesday in a Day/Night match from 13:00 hours