– Tucker Park and Port Mourant also make the cut
THE Rose Hall Canje Community Centre and the Port Mourant Community Ground on Saturday are slated to host the semi-finals of the Berbice Cricket Board-organised KSM Investment Inc 50 overs first division cricket tournament.
The teams involved are the Rose Hall Town Namilco Thunderbolt Flour, Rose Hall Canje Centre, Tucker Park Cricket Club and the Port Mourant Cricket Club.
The four teams emerged as the winners of the four zones in the round-robin tournament, which involved a total of thirteen teams across the Ancient County.
At the Rose Hall Community Centre, Rose Hall Town Namilco Thunderbolt Flour will clash with the home team.
RHT Thunderbolt Flour will be led by former national all-rounder Clinton Pestano and their powerful batting will be led by test players Kevlon Anderson and Kevin Sinclair.
They team will be supported by Junior Sinclair, Jonathan Rampersaud, Javed Karim, Clinton Pestano, Jason Sinclair, the exciting Leon Reddy and all-rounders Eon Hooper, and Keith Simpson.
National pacers Sylus Tyndall and Pestano would spearhead the visitors bowling attack with support from off-spinners Rampersaud, the Sinclairs, Eon Hooper and left arm spinners Keith Simpson and teenager Jayden Goupat.
The home team’s batting line-up will be led by the exciting Sanjay Algoo, skipper Adrian Hetmyer, Romario Ramdehol, Richard Ramdehol, Rajindra Beharry and Luke Amsterdam.
Canje bowling will be spearheaded by national pacer Isai Thorne, with support from medium pacer Gautam Dhanraj, Raymond VanTenie, Algoo, Hetmyer and Devon Wharton.
The home team spin attack will include the Ramdehol brothers and the promising Brandon Grimmond.
At the historic Port Mourant Ground, a strong Tucker Park Cricket team is expected to advance to the finals against the home team.
The visitors will be led by the experienced Nial Smith and include players like Zeymul Ramsammy, Kwesi Mickle, Garfield Benjamin, Gilbert Griffith, Thierry Henry, Kevin Kisten, Nigel Deodat, and Mical Amsterdam.
Port Mourant is to be led by former national player Damodar Cameron and includes a number of promising youth players in Rampersaud Ramnauth, Romeo Deonarain, Rampersab Ramnauth, Ruben Latcha, Balram Chappelle and Munesh Rampersaud.
Both matches bowl off from 9:30am.
