IN a battle of the military forces, Police beat the GDF while Everest defeated Transport SC and Malteenoes got a walkover from MYO as action in the Dave’s West Indian Inc. First-Division 50-over cricket tournament continued yesterday.
At Police, a magnificent unbeaten 155 from 117 balls with 17 fours and five sixes by Man-of-the-Match Garfield Benjamen was the highlight of the contest, but could not prevent the GDF from suffering a loss by 63 runs.
In sweltering heat and perfect batting conditions at the Police Sports Club ground, Eve Leary, the GDF, were dismissed for 282 in 39 overs in pursuit of the 345 all out in 45.1 posted by Police.
The reply commenced inauspiciously as Mark Jeffers removed Rockael Reddy (0) to stun the soldiers on 1-1 on a lightning-fast outfield.
Leon Andrews (15) and Benjamen carried the score to 26 before off-spinner Dwayne Dick trapped Andrews LBW and bowled Sanjay Algoo for a duck to be on a hat-trick.
Benjamen was joined Nigel Deodat in the sixth over and the pair embarked on ‘Operation rebuild’ with an entertaining fourth-wicket partnership.
But with the score on 165, Deodat departed after facing 45 balls and hitting two fours and six sixes in an aggressive 68, as the 139-run stand was broken.
Although Benjamen continued to execute some imperious shots he ran out of partners.

Leon Swammy (14) and Zameer Nazeer (10) were the only two batters to reach double figures.
Dick, Antony Adams and Kanalya Ramkarran had two wickets each for the Cops, who were spearheaded to their total by half-centuries from Kemol Savory (69) and Ramkarran (53).
Pernell London (37), Quinton Sampson (35), Adams (34), Dick(31) and Chemroy Kendell (30) all got into the 30s.
Andrews took 4-78, former West Indies youth pacer Isiah Thorne grabbed 2-52 and Deodat had 2-46 for the soldiers.
Over at DCC, Everest chasing Transport’s 255 all out in 48 overs, reached 256-5 in 43.5 to win by five wickets.
National opener Matthew Nando made 68 with nine boundaries at the top, while national off-spinning all-rounder Richie Looknauth fell two short of his century when victory was achieved with Looknauth unbeaten on 98 from 93 balls with 12 fours and three sixes. Ushardeva Balgobin had earlier chipped in with 34.
Myhiem Khan and Riyad Latiff had two wickets each for Transport who began solidly before falling away toward the end.
Romeo Deonarian (65) and Riyad Latiff (64) shared in an117-run opening stand before Jaden Campbell (55) and Deonarain put together 59 for the second wicket.
However, only Nehemiah Hohenkirk (22) of the others reached 12.
Left-arm pacer Chris Harry had 3-47, former West Indies batter Assad Fudadin took 3-46 and off-spinner Rafael Singh had 2-23.
At Malteenoes, the home side got a walkover from MYO which comprises mostly players from Berbice.