Georgetown decimate East Bank by eight wickets
GEORGETOWN again proved that the gap between that team and the rest of the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) sub-association teams is very wide when the city side decimated East Bank by eight wickets yesterday at the Guyana Police Force’s Sports Club Ground at Eve Leary in the opening round of the DCB Inter-Association 50-over U-19 cricket tournament.
East Bank were 15 without loss before suffering a colossal collapse to be bowled out in 19.2 overs for a paltry 38 as all 10 wickets tumbled for 23 runs.
Dilshan Latchman hit boundary in his painstaking 35-ball 10 and along with Shane Kissoondeo (1) before Stephon Seymour removed Kissoondeo and Skipper Joshua Budram for a duck to leave East Bank on 15-2 in 7.5 overs.
Fast bowler Shane Prince rocked back the stumps of Latchman to East Bank on 16-3 in bright sunshine and ideal batting conditions and they never recovered.
Man-of-the-Match Emmanuel Lewis 3-5, Dave Mohabir 3-9, Prince 2-6 and Seymour 2-15 conspired to orchestrate East Bank’s demise.
Georgetown galloped to 39-2 in 7.1 overs although Roupie Rajaram had opener Khush Seegobin LBW for five and bowled his elder sibling Danvir Seegobin for 11 with two fours.
West Indies U-19 World Cup left-hander Shamar Apple joined Kishan Silas (9) with the score on 29-2 and the 16-year-old Apple who plays for the Transport Sports Club, deposited Ravindra Singh for six off his second to emphatically finish the one-sided contest.
After a break today the action resumes tomorrow with East Bank and East Coast matching skills at the Police Sports Club Ground while West Demerara and Upper Demerara face-off at Meten-Meer-Zorg.
Up to press time no scores were available in the game at Meten-Meer-Zorg in West Demerara.
